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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 11:57 AM Nov 2013

14-year-old girl films father’s sexual abuse with webcam

14-year-old girl films father’s sexual abuse with webcam
Police were unable to arrest the man until his daughter was able to produce video proof of her allegations
By Miles Klee, The Daily Dot - http://www.salon.com/2013/11/06/14_year_old_girl_films_fathers_sexual_abuse_with_webcam_partner/

The Daily Dot A lack of so-called hard evidence has been known to unravel even a strong sexual assault case, but that shouldn’t be a problem for a 14-year-old French girl who thought to secretly film one of her allegedly abusive father’s attacks with a bedroom webcam.

Even after the victim had initially come forward, spilling details of the relationship with her father to a counselor at her school in Florensac, a small town in the southern Hérault region, police could not arrest him until she delivered video proof of her allegations. Now she’s in a women’s shelter, and he’s awaiting trial in Béziers prison. Investigators are still trying to gauge the mother’s complicity, though she appears to have been a victim as well.

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14-year-old girl films father’s sexual abuse with webcam (Original Post) Coyotl Nov 2013 OP
... IdaBriggs Nov 2013 #1
What does it matter how often he did it? Once is one time too many. appleannie1 Nov 2013 #2
not buying the "unemployed" and "going through a divorce" crap either MissMillie Nov 2013 #5
... NuclearDem Nov 2013 #3
What a brave young woman! Orrex Nov 2013 #4
Why the fuck could he not be arrested until video proof?? Starry Messenger Nov 2013 #6
"Oh it was only three or four months, and I lost my job!" Dash87 Nov 2013 #7
how awful Beringia Nov 2013 #8
There should have been some way of protecting the child ... surrealAmerican Nov 2013 #9

MissMillie

(38,583 posts)
5. not buying the "unemployed" and "going through a divorce" crap either
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 12:58 PM
Nov 2013

I mean, seriously.... why even attempt to justify this at all. It's just plain unacceptable.

Orrex

(63,228 posts)
4. What a brave young woman!
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 12:54 PM
Nov 2013

Terrible that she had to submit to yet another round of abuse in order to capture it on film.

Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)
6. Why the fuck could he not be arrested until video proof??
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 01:08 PM
Nov 2013

What did we do before webcams? And why did this brave young woman have to endure the fucking abuse one more time from her inhuman monster of a father before cops could arrest him?

Fuck. X(

Dash87

(3,220 posts)
7. "Oh it was only three or four months, and I lost my job!"
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 01:15 PM
Nov 2013

GFY!

No father that does this to their baby deserves to live.

surrealAmerican

(11,364 posts)
9. There should have been some way of protecting the child ...
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 01:20 PM
Nov 2013

... even if there was not enough evidence to convict the father. This is a social policy failure.

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