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As attorney, Hillary grilled 12-year-old rape victim

Whenever Her Highness takes to the stage to tout her commitment to “the children” and her work on behalf of “the children”, I’m going to go ahead and assume she doesn’t mean stuff like this:

Hillary Rodham Clinton often invokes her “35 years of experience making change” on the campaign trail, recounting her work in the 1970s on behalf of battered and neglected children and impoverished legal-aid clients.

But there is a little-known episode Clinton doesn’t mention in her standard campaign speech in which those two principles collided. In 1975, a 27-year-old Hillary Rodham, acting as a court-appointed attorney, attacked the credibility of a 12-year-old girl in mounting an aggressive defense for an indigent client accused of rape in Arkansas – using her child development background to help the defendant. 

Look, she was a defense attorney, and as such, she is legally obligated to zealously represent her client.  Fine.  Just doing her job.  Cool.  But you can’t go around telling the world what a child advocate you are when you did everything you could to keep a child rapist out of prison.

It also doesn’t help when you gloss over that sordid chapter in your life thusly (from ):

In her 2003 autobiography “Living History,” Clinton writes that she initially balked at the assignment, but eventually secured a lenient plea deal for Taylor after a New York-based forensics expert she hired “cast doubt on the evidentiary value of semen and blood samples collected by the sheriff’s office.”

However, that account leaves out a significant aspect of her defense strategy – attempting to impugn the credibility of the victim, according to a Newsday examination of court and investigative files and interviews with witnesses, law enforcement officials and the victim.

Rodham, records show, questioned the sixth grader’s honesty and claimed she had made false accusations in the past. She implied that the girl often fantasized and sought out “older men” like Taylor, according to a July 1975 affidavit signed “Hillary D. Rodham” in compact cursive. 

Oh, I see.  She “wanted it”, in other words.  Interesting, considering that this is the line that mosts rapists use to justify their evil deed.  So how does the victim describe the Hildeb#tch’s characterization of her?

The victim, now 46, told Newsday that she was raped by Taylor, denied that she wanted any relationship with him and blamed him for contributing to three decades of severe depression and other personal problems.

“It’s not true, I never sought out older men – I was raped,” the woman said in an interview in the fall. Newsday is withholding her name as the victim of a sex crime.

With all the anguish she’d felt over the case in the years since, there was one thing she never realized – that the lawyer for the man she reviles was none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton. 

Her Highness has a track record of enabling rapists, doesn’t she?

This is a heinous, despicable human being.  It’s a shame she won’t be getting her party’s nomination, because something like this could have been used to bludgeon her over the head in the general election.

February 25, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | ambulance chasers, Hillary, shameful