I disagree Mary Quite-Contrary. My sister was forcefully and violently raped at knife point at 3pm in the afternoon in Indio, California. She was taken to the ER at Indio Community Hospital. She was able to identify the man who had raped her as one of the gardeners who was pruning the Palm trees in the apartment community where we lived and she had bitten him hard enough on the left shoulder strong enough to draw blood as well. The man was, of course, known to nearly everyone in the community since he owned one of the largest gardening businesses around. Most people knew exactly where he lived. He was Hispanic. So by your evaluation, he should have been sent straight to jail, right?

Wrong! His nephew was the police lieutenant in charge of the investigation. The man disappeared for 3 day, just enough time for my sister to be taken in for questioning where my mother’s right to accompany her was denied. She was released from being questioned by the perpertrator’s nephew 9 hours later. At that time it was decided that she had lied in hopes of seeking to blackmail an upstanding citzen of the community and the investigation was dropped.

The man was never questioned. The reason why he should suddenly leave California to seek medical care on his left shoulder for 3 days was never questioned. Why he had had his car repainted while in Mexico was never questioned. That my sister was slandered as a common slut who got caught sleeping with a bunch of teenage boys in the date fields is a fact. That she quit attending high school just 3 weeks after starting it is also a fact. Why did she do that? Because she was propositioned and demeaned within the school by the male students. That she hid in her room and cried herself to sleep nightly for a very long time is also a fact. That she got a job at age 20, bought a rifle with her first paycheck and then shot herself in the chest is also a fact. That she wrote in her letter that she didn’t deserve to live because she was born a slut is also a fact.

The man. He died a few years later of cancer. He was never even questioned.