Yay, the USAian legal system, an example for the world... :rolleyes:
'Jenny' was the main witness against serial rapist Keith Hendricks during his trial last December. On the stand the 25-year-old woman, who suffers from bipolar disorder, broke down under questioning and fled, ending up in traffic outside the court.
Naturally the prosecutor handled this appropriately; she was arrested, involuntarily committed to a hospital for a few days and then imprisoned in Harris County Jail, where she was dumped in general population. She was released a month later.
Hendricks was convicted. He'd been raping women since at least the mid-1970s (he was first convicted in 1978) but the city's failure to actually test rape kits meant that he (and other rapists) were free to offend for years. (Link)
Houston Chronicle.
'Jenny' was the main witness against serial rapist Keith Hendricks during his trial last December. On the stand the 25-year-old woman, who suffers from bipolar disorder, broke down under questioning and fled, ending up in traffic outside the court.
Naturally the prosecutor handled this appropriately; she was arrested, involuntarily committed to a hospital for a few days and then imprisoned in Harris County Jail, where she was dumped in general population. She was released a month later.
Hendricks was convicted. He'd been raping women since at least the mid-1970s (he was first convicted in 1978) but the city's failure to actually test rape kits meant that he (and other rapists) were free to offend for years. (Link)
Houston Chronicle.
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