Jezebel, could we get a response to this? An acknowledgement would be nice at the very least.
Jezebel, could we get a response to this? An acknowledgement would be nice at the very least.
Cavender noted that Lara said, “At the point where he had sex with me, yeah at that point I was a willing participant because I wanted to get it over with.” But Lara wouldn’t “admit” that she had wanted to sleep with Joaquin, which made the detectives upset. They told her that Joaquin didn’t deserve this, she says.
Buzzfeed is really trying to up their news game. In the next year or two they’re going to be outclassing most other outlets.
The only compensation she has is a $550,000 settlement from the psychologist who testified it was safe for the baby to go with his father. Too bad the actual police are not paying a dime.
Yes, sadly this is what this case sounds like. Cavander clearly had an agenda, the rest of the team fell in line, and it was all precipitously downhill from there. Appalling.
And it’s a bit depressing that one of the few outlets doing it is a website that spends most of its time on articles like 10 Disney Princes With Hot Butts.
Right now it feels like my brain is projectile vomiting, so I totally hear ya.
Because they think women are evil bitches who lie about rape to fuck with fine, upstanding men. That's all there is to it.
I guarantee you that this is a story being told about other women in other police departments who were less media savvy than the McLeods. Thankfully, their previous media experience helped this case get the attention it deserves but it’s by no means alone. This is not a “few bad apples” case.
The elder sister was just trying to find the rape footage on the camera. It sounds like Joaquin was the one who fooled with the footage. There was absolutely no reason to charge her with anything. The judge agreed. Why did these detectives have such a bias against these women?
As soon as I saw Prince William County, I knew it was going to be terrible.
It’s just horrible.
I find this absolutely incomprehensible. Having read the article I still have no real idea of why they found Lara’s story “suspicious”, only that this Det. Cavander guy had a hunch and then over-interpreted some relatively minor inconsistencies. Sadly, it’s not like this is an unusual story; a similar thing happened…
This is gut-wrenching and terrible and all of the descriptive words I do not have the eloquence to use.
Those cops should be charged as accessories before the fact.
They got promoted, they ruined her life and killed a baby and got promoted!
I just read that 20 minutes ago. I still can’t get over the fact that they let the accused take a piece of evidence-the video camera-back to his lawyer’s office to pull the footage and are treating it as if there’s nothing wrong with that. And they’re still using the footage as actual evidence.
I have absolutely no idea how to convey how horrible I find this. That man is awful but he was allowed to go do another terrible thing.
*deletes several incoherent, expletive-riddled, violence-inciting attempts at commenting on this*
Holy. Fucking. Shit.