Posted by Danny L. Newton (no relation to Michael Newton) on February 28, 1999 at 13:56:26:
From what happened in the courts last week, in Seattle, It seems that the repressed memory debate is indeed over. Prosecutors know better and avoid any and all evidence that points to it. It is called delayed reporting now but a ruse by any any other name creates the same havoc.
A 16 year old was forced to apologize to the family, his family really, of a 12 year old who suddenly remembered being raped orally, anally and vaginally fourteen nights in a row and at knife point by her cousin. A bacterial infection was the trigger that caused her to remember that horible fortnight when her mother assigned a nine year old girl and a fourteen year old boy the same bedroom. Inspite of the crowded condition of the house caused by families doubeling up because of a reunion, the little pervert managed to rape her night after night and do it in such a way as to leave no evidence that could be detected in medical examinations. To add insult to injury, the little pervert managed to pass three lie detector tests. The score on the automated test was a two.
At the first hearing, the girl was too busy commiting faux suicide to show up. The prosecurix was really convinced of the little maniacs league with the devil then. She demanded no less thn six years in prison to show society that rape was not acceptable.
The parents tried to ditch their public pretenders because they were determined that he should take an Alford Plea. The prosecutrix demanded that the boy be jailed for the period of time that the boy's new lawyer needed to come up to speed. The family folded and the boy plead no contest.
At the sentencing, the boy was forced to apologize to the family for his crime and was given 60 days to confess that he did the crime. Otherwise, he will be returned to jail. The psycobabilist expressed extreme confidence in their ability to rehabilitate him. The pervert tests that he was given showed that he was ameanable to treatment. I would like to see what would happen if there were a hundred children tested at random. How many of them would show that they were perverts or ameanable to treatment? If you could hear the questions and see the photos on which they were to comment, you would probably have a problem with the ethics of even doing this kind of test.
The boy never faced his accuser, she was "too afraid to show up." I counted 13 similarities to the Wenatchee Witchhunt. The girl's mother has reported the girl or her brother raped three times in two years.
The way I see it, this girl or maybe the girl and her mother have gotten themselves a get-out-of responsibility-free card. Every dysfunctional act of the girl is now understandable and the mother could not possibly overcome the evil effects of this viscious rape. She could not parent the girl anyway since the girl was in a special school for abused children.
You don't need an expert on repressed memory or recovered memory, you only need a serious charge. Avoid exposing the mechanics of the memory recovery process and you can send anyone to jail if it involves a serious charge. No one came to this child's defense.
This system shows no mercy for the girl or the boy. If this is a false accusation, she will probably generate other victims. If he is indeed a rapist and did what she says he did, six years and all the psychobabble in the world probably won't fix him. Will the therapy for a rape that did not happen seem to cure her? I could lock him up myself and do it for the purpose of self defense, but I have to have more than was presented in this hearing.
There was no effort to seek the truth here and the world is a worse place for that. Judge Trickey, you have failed these children not because you failed to agree with me but because you failed to choose the hard path of seeking the truth. You were satisfied with the superficial and failed to use your ability to muster additional resources in this case.
Danny L. Newton