I FINALLY MUSTERED THE COURAGE TO CALL MY CLIENTS PARENTS TODAY. THANKFULLY THE MOTHER WAS OUT AND DAD ANSWERED. HE IS A MUCH MORE RATIONAL PERSON THAN HIS WIFE. WHILST NOT HAPPY WITH THE VERDICT, I WAS ABLE TO MAKE HIM SEE THAT PERHAPS THIS MAY CAUSE THE DEFENDANT TO THINK ABOUT TRYING ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN. OF COURSE, THIS IS IF HE DID THESE THINGS TO BEGIN WITH. LIKE I SAID YESTERDAY, EVEN I WAS BEGINNING TO DOUBT BY THE TIME SUMMATIONS WERE DUE.
TO CUT A LONG STORY SHORT, MY CLIENTS PARENTS SET A SITUATION UP WITH A FRIEND AS TO WHERE BY THEY WOULD ASK THEIR REGULAR BABY SITTER AROUND TO WATCH SOME OF THEIR KIDS WHILST THEY WENT TO THE PUB. MUM AND DAD SUSPECTED THAT THE BABYSITTER ( A 60YOLD MAN) WAS DOING UNTOWARD THINGS TO 4 OF THE GIRLS. SO THE BABY SITTER ARRIVES, MUM, DAD AND FRIEND MAKE LIKE THEY ARE LEAVING BUT REALLY HIDE IN THE BUSHES!!!! THEY PEER THROUGH THE WINDOW AND WATCH WHAT IS GOING ON. SUPPOSEDLY, THIS OLD GUY WAS TOUCHING THE GIRLS IN INAPPROPRIATE PLACES, MUM,DAD AND FRIEND BURST IN AND CALL THE COPS.
BY THE TIME I BECAME INVLOVED IT WAS THE TIME FOR THE COMMITTAL HEARING, 3 OF THE GIRLS GAVE CONVINCING EVIDENCE TO THE DPP, THE OTHER GIRL WAS ONLY 3 AT THE TIME AND WAS UNABLE TO BE QUESTIONED. THE MAGISTRATE WAS HAPPY ENOUGH TO COMMIT TO TRIAL.
ITS NOW 18 MONTHS LATER, THE KIDS ARE BEING CROSS EXAMINED BY THE DEFENCE COUNSEL, WHO BY THE WAY IS QUITE BRILLIANT, AND WAS ABLE TO PUT PLENTY OF DOBUT INTO JURORS MINDS. HE BOUGHT UP THE FACT THAT THE KIDS HAD LIED ABOUT STUFF ON OTHER OCCASIONS, THAT THEY COULDN'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. THEN WHEN HE CROSS EXAMINED MUM AND DAD, HE WAS ABLE TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE NOT REAL CREDIBLE ALSO. INFACT MUM LOST IT AND CALLED HIM A FU&^%$ LIAR. THE DEFENCE ALSO BOUGHT UP THAT THIS TYPE OF INCEDENT ALSO HAPPENED A NUMBER OF YEARS BEFORE IN ANOTHER STATE AND BECAUSE NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE COULD BE HAD THEN, THEY WERE DETERMINED TO MAKE SURE THEY HAD IT NOW, NOT WITH THE SAME DEFENDANT OF COURSE, SOMEONE ELSE.
WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY NEXT POINT, HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO? WHY ARE MANY OF MY CLIENTS REPEAT VICTIMS OF CRIME? WHY IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOME CRIMINALS AND SOME VICTIMS A HAIRLINE IN MEASUREMENT?
THIS PARTICULAR FAMILY IS INTERESTING. MUM IS 27 AND DAD IS 51. MUM HAD HER FIRST CHILD AT 15 TO ANOTHER GUY. MUM HAS 7 KIDS, ACTUALLY SHE HAD 9 BUT 2 DIED FROM COT DEATH ( YES AN INQUIRY WAS DONE). DAD HAS DIABETES, HAS HAD A HEART ATTACK AND NOW CELULITIS. NOT TOO SURE OF MUMS HEALTH BUT APPEARS OK. THE BABY HAS A KIDNEY DISORDER,THE NEXT BOY HAS A LIVER PROBLEM,THE GIRL HAS ADHD WITH OCD,THE NEXT GIRL HAS A BONE DISEASE,THE NEXT GIRL HAS A BLOOD CONDITION,NEXT 2 GIRLS ALSO HAVE SOME DREADED DISEASE.
OK,THIS LOT ARE OUT OF THE NORM TRUE, BUT AFTER 2 YEARS OF DEALING WITH CHILD VICTIMS OF CRIME, I HAVE TO TELL YOU I HAVE HAD ONE CLIENT COME FROM A SUPPOSEDLY NORMAL BACKGROUND, THAT'S RIGHT ONE!!!! ALL OF MY CLIENTS COME FROM DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES,WHETHER IT BE BIOLOGICAL,ENVIRONMENTAL OR SOCIAL AND ALL ARE VICTIMS OF CRIME.

MORE ANOTHER TIME.