laura (06/29/82)
Case in point: two years ago a girl was raped by one of her co-employees at the office when she stayed to do some catch-up work. She prosecuted the offender, who was sentenced to 1 year of prison following a stay in a psychiatric hospital when a psychiatric examination done at the time of the trial "proved" that the man "had been driven insane by the girl's success in the field where he had been working for the last 20 years". All through the trial proceedings he made threats against the girl's life. After the trial concluded he spent 1 year in a psychiatric home followed by one year in prison. (I believe that the year in prison was for damage to company property rather than the sex crime, but I am not sure.) Two years later, he has been released. The girl in question has moved to work for another company in California. Her Ottawa phone number, though, was and is her parents', who still live in Ottawa. Now her mother is receiving threatening phone calls from the man, whom she recognizes as the man who raped her daughter. As of yet, the police have done nothing. Moral: people in glass houses shouldnt throw stones. laura creighton decvax!utzoo!laura