My daughter and I were beaten and case was settled

TO THE EDITOR:

Me and my daughter who had been beaten with brass knuckles, and me with my own cane, had been waiting for our day in court for two years.

Well fellow Warren countians, we got our day in court last week and as of the very day before court, we had still not been contacted by the district attorney’s office. On Tuesday, June 19, I decided to call them after I had been subpoenaed the previous week to appear on June 20 to find out exactly why nobody from the DA’s office had called us for a conference regarding the case.

Much to my surprise, I was informed by one of Mrs. Z’s assistant DAs that I would not have to appear, nor my daughter, because she had settled the case herself. There were many excuses, including the fact the case had been ‘so old’ (whose fault is that?), and that some of the witnesses could not ‘remember well.’

Well we remember ‘ my underage daughter hit by a grown man with a pair of brass knuckles and myself, a disabled mother of four children with three back surgeries who has to walk with a cane, which he almost killed me with.

We are witnesses and we remember everything.

I believe I’m speaking for all the victims when I say this is the reason that more than half of the people who live with these type of situations are stuck. There is no help, no justice when you step up to get help and then no hope for a safe life when it’s over because the victims have no right to speak and the perpetrators go free.

This is all thanks to the deals that are being made. There seems to be a phobia of trying cases.

Tammy Lance

Sparta Highway

McMinnville