“I am disappointed, and for me from my point of view I wouldn’t encourage nobody right now to go and try to get justice because if she did not get justice I don’t who could. Seeing and knowing that my daughter did not get justice, I would now encourage young people to put it to God instead of going to the law for justice because there is no justice. Just try to put it behind your back and try to move on, with your life.”
The words of a 40-year-old mother whose daughter was brutally raped when she was just 16 years old, but four years later after being forced to relive the horrific details in a court of law, a 12-member jury found the accused man not guilty.
Her daughter was too distraught to speak to me, but she wanted to share the pain they both feel even as she questioned the reason for jury trials when it comes to rape.
