Yes, OJ would be analogous. A disinclination to convict based on matters apart from the evidence. But even so, I still don't understand some people's willingness here to believe every horrible thing about the VD's and then excuse away everything about DW and portray him as being a wonderful, great, upstanding person in the community, falsely accused. It wouldn't surprise me at the CTV message boards, but it surprises me HERE.
I see way too many child-sex-abuse cases in my job, and it is not at all common for someone to get to DW's age without a previous police investigation or charge. Someone here suggested early on -- Doughty One? -- that DW's proximity to Mexico may not be a coincidence and he might have been carrying on there (yes, I know there's no evidence of this, but everyone else propounds theories based on no evidence, so I will mention it here as well).
I find the VanDams DISGUSTING. I also find the pornography purported to be in DW's possession to be DISGUSTING. I hold the VDs to a HIGHER standard. He is single. They are parents of young children. He is responsible for himself. They were SUPPOSED to be responsible for three young children. Instead they gratified their own desires at the expense of their children..in this case, at the expense of one of their children's lives. At the very LEAST, if they had been normal parents, it would have been MUCH harder for someone to get to their children...if that is indeed what happened, which I doubt.
Are you saying that the folks here have clouded judgment based on their moralistic bias? Seems to me the DNA would be the most important and
damning evidence...err, but then there was oj...
Yes, OJ would be analogous. A disinclination to convict based on matters apart from the evidence. But even so, I still don't understand some people's willingness here to believe every horrible thing about the VD's and then excuse away everything about DW and portray him as being a wonderful, great, upstanding person in the community, falsely accused. It wouldn't surprise me at the CTV message boards, but it surprises me HERE.
You see this as us not using our heads. I see it as us using our heads more than you're using yours. Westerfield lived two doors away from the VanDams. The Westerfields were known to be on the make outside the family setting. Does it seem so strange to think that Westerfield may have been one of their playmates?
If not, then mom and Danielle could have visited Westerfield's home and motorhome more often than intimated up to this point. If Danielle ran a comb through her hair just once while at Westerfield's, that would account for the hair. If she happened to scrape a knee or cut a finger, that could innocently account for the blood. I'm not defending Westerfield. The guy might be guilty. But the DNA evidence is not a clincher for me. Not when the mother is a traveling sex show and Westerfield lived so close to them.
I see way too many child-sex-abuse cases in my job, and it is not at all common for someone to get to DW's age without a previous police investigation or charge. Someone here suggested early on -- Doughty One? -- that DW's proximity to Mexico may not be a coincidence and he might have been carrying on there (yes, I know there's no evidence of this, but everyone else propounds theories based on no evidence, so I will mention it here as well).
Okay, that's a cliincher. You see child-sex-abuse cases way to often and DW's proximity to Mexico is irrefuteable. Oookaaayyyy....
284 posted on 6/6/02 10:25 AM Pacific by Amore