Reply #60: Sometimes the system does work [View All]

[Thirtieschild]

Our daughter was raped 20 years ago by a serial rapist. She was the one they had proof of, so her case was the one which went to trial. The rapist wanted to plead it down and everyone - the other victims, the police, the prosecutor - agreed but our daughter said no, if she let him plead to a lesser offense it would say what happened to her wasn't important. He was sentenced to 20 years and got the standard DNA test when he got out of prison. He thought the test results would only be available in North Carolina, so went to DeKalb Co GA to rape again. Our daughter, who now lived in NY, was apparently traced through her social security number because DeKalb prosecutors called and asked her to testify against him at this trial, which she did. The irony - she was raised in DeKalb Co.