It took WAY too long for us to get here.

This is what’s happening. Her husband works from home. I guarantee this woman doesn’t fart in the presence of her husband. Her husband has put her on this pedestal to where she feels she can’t shit in her own house. Instead, she goes out for a “jog.”

As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, this is a man who said he would beat up transwomen for using the bathroom. This guy should not be a cop.

Regardless of how he might have related to her on a father/daughter level, I find it highly unbelievable that if this had been a 30 year old man, he would’ve referred to him as a “little boy.”

So if he were talking about a 30 year old male victim, would he say “I’m so glad we found that little boy alive?”

I don’t give a fuck how old or fatherly or how much of a good ol’ boy some *cop* is and nor do I care how young and vulnerable this woman looked when she was rescued: She is NOT a “little girl.”

No, it’s wrong. He shouldn’t infantilize an adult woman because he’s a whopping 20-something years older than her and she was kidnapped and harmed. It doesn’t make him a big bad boogeyman or deserving of losing his job or being called out on Twitter or anything like that. He spoke emotionally and off the cuff. But…

Considering this is the Sheriff who declared he’d beat up transwomen for using public restrooms, I’d consider his response here tasteful and measured by comparison.

This is exactly what I came here to say. Infantilizing adult women survivors is seriously ridiculous. 

Maybe if they did the police work and didn’t leave it up to God the murders wouldn’t have happened in the first place.

I read a news article on this last night, in which the sheriff? Deputy? Chief? repeatedly brought up God. I was seriously grossed out when he said something like “see how great god is, he answered our prayers for closure” regarding the decades-old murders. The separation of church and state in this area must be just…

I did a full body cringe reading that. What the ever loving fuck? I know it’s not the most salient point of the story but it’s super creepy.

I was about to leave the same comment. Like even if you are the cop who liberated me from my rape prison, you’d still get the side eye for calling my 30 year old ass “little girl,” not the least of reasons being the media perception that rape is only horrifying or sad when it happens to “girls” and not “women”.

yeah, I zoned in on that as soon as I read it. Unusual word choice.

“30-year-old”

When you sit in a court of law day in and day out, it’s easy to forget that your litigants are human beings with lives outside of the justice system. Good on Judge Wolf for not forgetting and for not being afraid to sometimes let common sense prevail over the black letter law. She is a credit to the bar.