the criminal is highly straight-out-of-a-crime-novel?
That's what kept me reading skimming when I saw it earlier today.
Also, the total lack of ambiguity on the central shock -- that she accurately reported a rape, and was bullied into recanting. It's the kind of thing that people believe happens, and worry about happening, but mostly you worry because you can't be sure -- someone recants, and you never know what really happened.
Here, with the physical evidence and the other matching rapes, and I forget, did he end up confessing to raping her as well? There's near as possible no doubt, which is unusual on this issue.
(Rechecked the story -- he had pictures he took during the rape. So, literally no doubt.)
It is an amazingly pat resolution. The only reason I called it semi-tidy in the post was because the main character doesn't get those years of her life back.
the criminal is highly straight-out-of-a-crime-novel
And Galbraith and Hendershot are straight out of a female buddy cop TV show! (But that is some seriously impressive detective work that they did.
It's well written and very artfully told, I think that has a lot to do with it.
I had just read this article and thought it might be the one being referred to (although it was published last month, so would not have been topical on Fbook).
UVa! UVa!
All I'm getting at the link is a majestically blank white screen. Hm.
That's because the story wasn't written by a Canadian writer or sung by Bryan Adams, your greatest national treasure.
Greatest national treasure aside from oil, of course.
Wikipedia says that is a city in Spain.
I believe "tuque" is the more specific term.
Maybe I just need to remember not to expect a proper redirect if I enter the plural.
I thought it was television actors/presenters.
Nope. Many people can be confused by a terminal 's'.
If my head is cold, I can walk into a store in Canada and ask for an "other" and be more successful than if I asked for a "cap."
So the police and the foster system thought she was too scummy to get raped, unsurprising.
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Yeah. Obviously most of the blame goes on the shitty police system, but WTF was up with her foster "mothers"? They also appear to mostly suck as humans. That story about the sheets drove me crazy. I hate it when people think someone has to process trauma in one single prescribed way, otherwise they're clearly faking or lying.
Also the story was really sad, but I was impressed the the resilience of Marie.
Training for foster parents on how to deal with sexual abuse is often not great at all. Training (formal or through conversation with experienced foster parents) about dealing with false allegations tends to hit closer to home. They're primed to expect certain things and a lot of people don't know what trauma looks like or how it manifests in a particular individual's responses. I think I do that sort of thing pretty well, but it's mostly because of prior experience and not because I've been taught or expected to.
That actually makes a lot of sense. It doesn't excuse the foster parents, but it makes the way they acted much more comprehensible.
What an excruciating story. I was struck by one of the female officer's comments that she didn't have anything against asking for help (!) from another department. That seems like an unexamined potential part of toxic police culture. Is there really a stigma against reaching out to other jurisdictions to see if they are facing a similar perpetrator?! I hope that is a misunderstanding by the reporters.
I was also frustrated that after the story noted that Marie's jurisdiction had a 21% "unfounded" rate for sexual assault cases in the five years prior to her case, there was no information about whether the resolution of her case made them go back and revisit their other supposedly "unfounded" cases. Like, WTF, guys?
It doesn't excuse the foster parents, but it makes the way they acted much more comprehensible.
Honestly, I find it hard to excuse Peggy. I can understand having some doubts, maybe (or at least, I'm willing to believe there was a more complex history of misunderstanding? deception? between Marie and her foster parents, which the article doesn't really explain). But to proactively call the police and encourage them to doubt Marie's account? Who does that?!
29: an asshole. she's lucky the woman speaks to her.