A sex crime isn't over if there's a chance the perpetrator will be freed

Star Tribune Saturday 4th February, 2012

It was in the 1970s, and I was 20 years old. On a cold November night, my friend and I were walking to our car in an adjacent parking lot in our small hometown in Minnesota, when a man jumped us and, without provocation, shot her in the chest and shoulder. He abducted us at gunpoint. After dumping my injured friend out of the car, he drove me deep...

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