Some of you may have read before that there is a person in my life who was raped at the age of five. While that crime went unreported for many years because of the fear and manipulation that took place (as it does with most victims of friends/family), let me relate this person's life after the rape.
Insecurity, life threatening obesity, bipolar disorder, paranoid schizophrenia accompanied by visual and auditory hallucinations, obsessive compulsions, attempted suicide.
Those are words on paper. But I knew this person as a bright and charming playmate before the occurrence. It was like a light dimmed and went out when this thing happened. And I didn't even know about it till years later.
A lot of people started to wonder if there had been an illness that did something to this child's brain. Like when some children used to be affected by the measles or a bad ear infection and it left them permanently disabled.
With today's modern technology, there would have been better tests to determine the cause.
The suicide attempt is what brought out the psychologically aching and physically gruesome tale of the first rape at 5 and another (same perpetrator) at 8 yrs old.
Besides the psychological problems there are residual physical problems as well.

What do you think my opinion of this court decision is?

That person took the life and future of my playmate and I still blame myself that I could have loved a friend so well and not known.

I am admittedly just weary of the back breaking over consideration that's been given to -not the accused-but the tried and guilty in our country, when the victims have to be dead or robbed of a great deal of money before they are worthy enough to have equal justice under the law.
The fact these kids don't die is a testament to their spirit and willpower in the face of the most awful evil anyone can imagine.

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