I hope the girl who “refused to testify” is proud of herself. She enabled this pervert.
I’d imagine you’re familiar with the emotions (rage, shame, guilt, et al) of a 14 year-old girl who’s just been raped?
No?
I thought so.
Good job.
Remember what happened to women/girls who cried rape and testified at trial in 1972? Too young to remember or not born yet?
Here's what would happen. The victim would be labeled a whore and any deviation from total sainthood would be blown out of proportion by the defending attorney as 'she asked for it' testimony.
The judge who let him out after the Reno rape is the one who needs to be held responsible.
I’m not excusing her, but I do hope you understand that victims of rape are ashamed.
Many men are raped ... and do not come forward for the same reason.
Don’t blame the victim.
His wife was a co-conspirator and even kept the girls imprisoned while her husband was in prison.
The officers who were supposed to check in on him didn’t not notice he was violating parole.
The officers who responded to calls about the way the girls were being treated didn’t talk to the girls.
A lot of people enabled this man. Past victims who were minors would be hard to blame for letting him go.
How about the legal system that put him back out on the street several times?
Sorry, she was 14, terrified and traumatized. And it was in a different time and place. She did what she had to do to survive. You cannot place the burden of that sick b@$tard on a child.
That’s a bit harsh. No telling what “justice” would have been done, and that little one suffered too.
I fault the parole officers; each and every one of them that visited and failed to find her, or reported that they visited but actually spent the afternoon at the local strip-club.
perhaps daddy or big brother should have taken care of it....that used to be the old way...instead of multiple layers of humiliation for the young girl, Garrido might have been stopped back then or at least impaired....
No, she did not. The prosecution could have worked to develop a better case than solely relying on witness testimony.
She didn’t do anything wrong. I was raped by someone I’d known for years, at a party when I was 15. Because we were drinking, and because I left the party willingly with him - only to take a walk as far as I thought - I never told anyone at the time. Only a couple of very close friends, and my husband even know now, 28 years later. I was afraid of getting in trouble from my parents, of getting in trouble for having a drink, being accused of leading him on or being too flirtatious or whatever. And I didn’t want everyone in the school to know.