Showing posts with label Rape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rape. Show all posts
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Man Arrested For Allegedly 'Marrying' Stepdaughter at Age 12, Holding Her Captive For 19 Years At
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Man
Arrested For Allegedly 'Marrying' Stepdaughter at Age 12, Holding Her Captive
For 19 Years At
Deborah Hastings
Inside Edition October 9, 2017
An arrest has been
made in the strange saga of a woman who told FBI agents her stepdad had
kidnapped her at age 12 and held her captive for 19 years.
Henri Michele Piette,
62, was arrested last week in Mexico and extradited to Oklahoma, where he was
charged with rape, child abuse and other offenses, The Oklahoman reported.
Rosalynn Michelle
McGinnis, now 33, said she was able to escape last year from a filthy tent with
eight of her nine children. She made her way to a U.S. Embassy, investigators
said in court documents, the paper reported.
Her eldest child is
grown and escaped before her, she said. They have since been reunited, she
said.
In an interview with People magazine, McGinnis said she was speaking
publicly because “I want the world to know. I want him to be stopped and I want
justice to be served.”
She was beaten with a
baseball bat, raped, stabbed, shot and choked unconscious during nearly two
decades with Piette, she said.
He has been charged in
Wagoner County. He “married” her in a van after kidnapping her from school, she told investigators.
Her mother had left Piette because he beat her and the mom and daughter were
living in a women’s shelter, McGinnis said.
McGinnis and Piette’s
children were dragged across states including Texas, Montana and Arizona,
according to FBI agents.
Ultimately, they
landed in Mexico, where they lived in a tent in a remote village.
After 19 years of
abuse, and recovering from a crude surgery to remove her gallbladder, McGinnis
decided it was now or never.
“I knew that if I
didn’t get out of there,” she told the magazine. “I’d either go insane or I
would end up dying and leaving my kids with that man.”
Back in the U.S.,
McGinnis has been working the JAYC Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit began by
Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted at age 11 in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., before
she was rescued after 18 years.
She also has been
helped by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
“It took a lot of
courage. It took a lot of bravery,” Robert Lowery, vice president of missing children for the organization, told the
publication.
“She wasn’t only
concerned for herself,” he said, “but for her children.”
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Man accused of raping 12-year-old girl given joint custody of her child
Man
accused of raping 12-year-old girl given joint custody of her child
Christopher
Mirasolo
SANILAC COUNTY, Mich. — A Michigan man who allegedly raped a
girl when she was 12 years old and got her pregnant has been given joint
custody of her child.
Christopher Mirasolo, 27, is accused of raping the victim and
getting her pregnant in September 2008, according to The
Detroit News. He was 18 and she was 12.
The victim’s attorney, Rebecca Kiessling, says Mirasalo lured
the victim, her 13-year-old sister and a friend into his car and took them to a
vacant home in Michigan and held them captive for two days before releasing
them.
Inside the home, Mirasolo forcibly raped and threatened to kill
the victim, Kiessling says.
Mirasolo was arrested a month later and sentenced to one year in
jail for attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct. He served roughly half
the time before he was released to care for his sick mother.
In 2010, Mirasolo was convicted of the assault of another child
and given four years in jail.
According to The Detroit News, after a paternity test showed
Mirasolo was the father, he was given parenting time and joint custody of the
child.
Now, the victim is seeking protection under the federal Rape
Survivor Child Custody Act.
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Monday, December 26, 2016
Thursday, October 8, 2015
7 Things You Need To Know About Rape and Military: Justice Denied Documentary - Radio Show on Progress in the World
JUSTICE DENIED, a 30 minute documentary that takes a no-holds- barred look at sexual assault of men within the ranks of America’s armed forces and the service members who must live with the aftermath of those heinous crimes for the rest of their lives.
Geri Lynn Weinstein Matthews and Michael Matthews have been veteran advocates going on 16 years.
Michael is 30 Retired United States Air Force and military rape survivor; Geri Lynn is a licensed clinical social worker for 21 years and documentary filmmaker. They have been married almost 30 years.
Justice Denied documentary was produced and co/directed by Geri Lynn.
The film has been screened at the Pentagon, the US Senate, the National association of social workers film Festival, several other film fests and will screen this November 14th, 2015 at the veterans film festival in San Francisco at the main library, 100 Larkin Street...free admission.
You can find each of them individually and their film and TV series on FB, LinkedIn & Twitter.
UnAvoidable Productions by Geri Lynn Weinstein Matthews
The Web site is www.justicedeniedmovie.com To Purchase the Movie
Vimeo is vimeo.com/ondemand/
The Film is on Twitter @ JDtheMovie...and Michael and Geri are on and twitter
For Michael @staysputs
For Geri Lynn @fleabid
Justice Denied the Movie is the Facebook Movie page
Geri Lynn Weinstein Matthews and Michael Matthews have been veteran advocates going on 16 years.
Michael is 30 Retired United States Air Force and military rape survivor; Geri Lynn is a licensed clinical social worker for 21 years and documentary filmmaker. They have been married almost 30 years.
Justice Denied documentary was produced and co/directed by Geri Lynn.
The film has been screened at the Pentagon, the US Senate, the National association of social workers film Festival, several other film fests and will screen this November 14th, 2015 at the veterans film festival in San Francisco at the main library, 100 Larkin Street...free admission.
You can find each of them individually and their film and TV series on FB, LinkedIn & Twitter.
UnAvoidable Productions by Geri Lynn Weinstein Matthews
The Web site is www.justicedeniedmovie.com To Purchase the Movie
Vimeo is vimeo.com/ondemand/
The Film is on Twitter @ JDtheMovie...and Michael and Geri are on and twitter
For Michael @staysputs
For Geri Lynn @fleabid
Justice Denied the Movie is the Facebook Movie page
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