Rape victim forced to apologize for rape in church, forced to give up baby, shipped away to hide it

[moobu2]

gets a little justice.

NH convicted rapist facing 54 years at sentencing

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Willis and the teenager, who also babysat his children, attended a fundamentalist Baptist church in Concord that made her apologize to the congregation when she became pregnant. The pastor helped ship her to the home of a Colorado couple she didn't know — with her mother's consent — and arrange for her baby to be adopted.

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"When Ernie raped me, he destroyed the person I was and, in that moment, filled me with shame and guilt that I've battled against repeatedly," she told the court. "When he decided that his sexual gratification was the most important thing in his life, he shattered mine."
She said she was heartbroken when she gave her infant daughter to adoptive parents two days after her birth in 1998.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700176495/NH-convicted-rapist-facing-54-years-at-sentencing.html">"She got shamed, shunned, silenced and sent away,"

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Just terrible!

[backscatter712]

2. This is not normal, but on religion it is!

Religion: Not even once!

[struggle4progress]

3. It sounds like Jocelyn Zichterman deserves some real credit here: she nailed down

enough of the story to get the authorities to act

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Give me the cliff notes. was there any justice in this story?

[MineralMan]

5. This is your brain. This is your brain on Fundamentalism.

Fundies are for dopes!

[bengalherder]

6. Just another day in the life of a cult. n/t

[Trillo]

7. May she find healing and happiness once again. nt

[deacon_sephiroth]

8. by religious standards she got off easy.

She's lucky they didn't bludgeon her to death with rocks in teh streets.