VICTIM In Ken Buck RAPE CASE Speaks

[Segami]

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" I have a story today explaining why it's so odd that Ken Buck, the tea party Republican Senate candidate in Colorado, didn't prosecute a controversial rape case while serving as Weld County district attorney. While reporting the story, I conducted a lengthy interview with the victim in the alleged rape. I wasn't able to get all of her comments into the article, but I wanted to share a few of them now. Perhaps the most interesting news in our interview was the victim's contention that Buck's office was totally unwilling to compromise on prosecuting the case. She says she suggested that they at least offer the suspect a plea deal, with no jail time and sex offender treatment, but that Buck's assistant district attorney rejected that idea outright.


Here's a rough transcript of the rest of what she told me (you'll probably need to read the story itself to understand all the details):



Victim: It would seem to me that if someone confessed to committing a crime they would then be charged with a crime. I knew how difficult sex assaults were to prosecute. That's one of the reasons we did the pretext phone call and I agreed to do that. I knew there was a much higher chance of confession with a pretext phone call so that's why that happened.


Mother Jones: Were you surprised that, even though the attacker confessed, the case still wasn't prosecuted?


Victim: I guess I don't know what else you would need . It's no longer a he said/she said situation. That's normally what makes sex assault so difficult to prosecute. When we're both saying the same thing you don't have that dilemma any more. I was shocked and really confused. I still am. I was angry... It hurt. And I was completely bewildered as to why Ken Buck wouldn't take the case.


MJ: Do you get the sense that Buck believed your story?


Victim: He this statement during one of our meetings that it appeared that I invited to have sex. That was terrifying to me... To have him say he didn't believe a word I was saying and he didn't believe the offender either, that both of us had said that wasn't the reason and I had said no. For him to then be questioning that was very hurtful and very confusing.


MJ: Have you spoken to attorneys or other legal experts since? What did they think of the case?


Victim: At the time I spoke to three different attorneys, all of whom were criminal defense attorneys. After I received the first letter stating that the district attorney wasn't pressing charges, I went and met with them all separately. I presented them with the police report and all of them were just as confused as I was. All of them expressed that it would be very difficult to defend this case and that they did not understand why it wasn't moving forward. That's when I hired an attorney and went and met with . One thing that I don't think I've told anybody before is that he says he took to and all of that. That's something that he never told me. Not once in our meeting did he say that he had checked it with another county.


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<http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/10/victim-ken-buck-rape-case-speaks>

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[joeybee12]

1. KNR

[Hawkowl]

2. Buck is fucked

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

[Touchdown]

3. The race is still close. Buck is on the downslide,

but Colorado is in the middle of early voting now. Let's hope her story is fresh on people's minds when they pull the curtains.