Posted by
Mike on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:28:43 PM
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A recent two part story in the LA Times details the saga of a young man
from Las Vegas who was arrested while attempting to pick up his son in
Simi Valley on February 1, 2008 pursuant to his visitation rights under
court order. His ex-girlfriend, the child's mother, apparently
concocted a story that he allegedly followed her into her home through
the garage, tied her up with her own underwear, beat her up, pulled out
some of her hair, sexually assaulted her with a wooden coat hanger,
singed her stomach and one of her fingers with matches, injured her
shoulder blade, attempted to strangle her with a prefabricated black
cord and slipknot and to suffocate her with a plastic bag. The incident
was reported to the police by the husband of the alleged victim who had
conveniently just arrived home from work at the same time that the child's
father was on the way to the school to pick up his son. The only problem
with the case was that there was no case. The young man was held for
weeks in solitary confinement at the Ventura County jail and denied bail
at the request of a stupid, corrupt, politically motivated deputy DA
Andrea Tischler.
David Del Marto, the Simi Valley Police Detective investigating the case,
must be the dumbest cop who ever lived. He bought the woman's story
hook, line and sinker, which could have sent the young man to prison,
even though there was ample evidence that the young woman and her
husband were lying, including the fact that the young man had just
arrived by airplane, made several stops before arriving at the school,
and could not possibly have been at the mother's residence at the time
of the alleged incident. The detective also uncovered proof that the
woman had viewed on her computer a sexual bondage website which
displayed a picture of a black cord and slipknot identical to the one
found at the residence which she said was used by the alleged attacker.
She claims that the picture was sent to her as a joke by a friend.
Did the Detective or DA even ask her who this friend was? Furthermore,
the injury to the woman's shoulder blade was found to be consistent with
her diving into the shallow end of her own swimming pool outside the
residence. Yet the corrupt DA only decided to drop charges "for now"
only after the woman refused to testify at trial, saying that her having
to testify would be too traumatic. Of course it would have been
traumatic for her to have to perjure herself in front of a jury on
cross-examination by defense counsel.
The same judge who ordered the young man held without bail has issued a
subsequent order in January of 2009 declaring him factually innocent.
To this day, the DA has not charged the woman or her husband with filing
a false police report. They contend that they are still not 100%
convinced that the young woman made up the whole story, even after
testimony by a psychologist for the defense that the woman was either
attacked by her ex-boyfriend as she continues to assert, or she is
lying, with no middle ground in between.