Posted on 06/16/2004 9:25:09 AM PDT by NYer
Oh dear God, that poor girl...
As sad as this case is, it's comforting to know the Lord has her now...and she's at peace.
Headline should have read "hanged", not "hung".
Personally this begins to look more like a witchhunt.
How ironic that a sex perv gets to serve his sentence at the CLINTON Correctional Facility.
ping to my post above.
Is the Clinton Correctional Facility the place ClintBilly went to...ahem... to straighten things out? :0)
If the coroner did not mess up the evidence. Or the child did not wash it away. Or the evidence did not support the DA’s case.
These things and others could have made it advantageous not to bring up physical evidence.
ping to my post above. No DNA and no semen. I have trouble buying this one in light of those statements.
"Moynihan reminded the jury of the lack of physical evidence directly linking Lucie to the sexual assault of Valerie.
In a continued effort to incite reasonable doubt, he said the injuries on Valerie’s body could have been caused by something other than rape and sodomy.
“If it’s consistent with self-inflicted injury, that would also explain why there’s no physical evidence – there’s no semen, DNA, hairs, fibers,” said Moynihan."
http://www.news10now.com/content/all%5Fnews/?ArID=19982&SecID=83
Crushing. Heartbreaking.
Perhaps there was not enough dna.
awful. I am at a loss for words.
Considering that the Clinton Correctional Facility is a maximum security facility, he will not be having a very nice time during his stay.
Once the general population gets wind of what he did, it will then get even worse.
I'm sure this creep will be segregated from the others, simply to save his own life.
Very weird!
The article doesn't say it, but I imagine there WAS a lot more evidence. Not trying to be crude here, but an adult male would probably cause some tearing in a child that small upon penetration, especially if sodomy was involved. My mother is a retired nurse who was the communicable disease nurse for our county. She had a prisoner in a minimum security prison suspected to have AIDS that she had to visit. He was emotionally screwed up & she had a doctor examine him, whereupon the report stated his rectum was 3 times larger than it should have been. In other words, he had SOMETHING up there that wasn't supposed to be there. My point is that if a grown man shows signs of sodomy that obvious, imagine what something like that would do to a small child. On second thought, it's probably best NOT to try to imagine that!
Anyway, there may not have been DNA evidence because he may have "pulled out" prior to ejaculation and, being in a shower, other evidence of contact could have been washed away. There are a number of things that could have affected the evidence. Besides, the reality isn't anything like CSI where they all but wave a magic wand and evidence appears. It is much harder than you might think, especially when a sick bastard really wants to cover it up. When you factor in the lawyer, who will try to get all kinds of evidence dismissed (look at Kobe Bryant's team and what they are doing) and there may have been some DNA evidence that the jury didn't get to see. The judge would have seen it and his reaction tells me he knows this prick did it.
I will agree with you, though, in that if this is all they had on the guy, it would have been difficult for me to convict him. But a jury DID convict him and some jurors even showed up at the sentencing, so that tells me there may have been more to this than the story tells.
What if a condom were used?That could lead to no semen.
Calling this guy A Father, is an insult to everything this title stands for. He may have sired his helpless young victem, but A Father he ain't!
I supose that 50 years for this crime is about as good as liberal dominated New York can muster, but it ain't nearly enough! Death by hanging, just as his victem chose in her shame, dissappointment and grief over being betrayed by the very one that little girls look to for refuge, comfort, and guidance, ain't enough either, but it would better indicate that just maybe, the law considered her life at least as precious as her assailant's.
I'm inclined to agree with you on the facts as they are presented here but and it's a big but - A jury of his peers convicted him and they were privy to much more information than we have here. The jury system is far from perfect but it's the best there is anywhere.
If he is truly innocent maybe he will win on appeal. If he's guilty he got what he deserved. - just my opinion.
Guess again.
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