A) I'm not defending Hillary. I'm simply after the truth. B) Yes, this is from snopes.com so it may be questionable. C) If there's a version of the events contrary to snopes, I'd be interested in reading it.
[Hillary] quickly learned, was hopelessly convoluted, hinging on the accounts of three people — Taylor, the girl and a 15-year-old boy — who all had reasons to withhold details.
Finding out precisely what happened in the pre-dawn hours of May 10, 1975, is difficult three decades later, particularly since Taylor died in 1992 of a heart ailment. But a basic outline can be reconstructed from interviews, court documents, witnesses’ statements and the Washington County sheriff’s original case file, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Sometime around midnight, the girl was sleeping over at a friend’s house in Springdale when Taylor and his 20-year-old cousin walked in, asking if anyone wanted to take a drive. The sixth-grader, who says she was bored and wanted to buy a soda, jumped into Taylor’s beat-up red 1963 Chevrolet pickup truck.
Soon after, they picked up the 15-year-old boy and drove to a liquor store, where Taylor bought a pint of Old Grand-Dad whiskey, which he mixed for the girl in a cup of Coca-Cola, according to the boy, now a 48-year-old Army veteran. (Newsday is withholding the boy’s name because he was charged in the case as a juvenile offender.)
After a few hours at a local bowling alley, the foursome crammed into Taylor’s truck and drove to a weedy ravine off a busy two-lane highway connecting the sister cities of Fayetteville and Springdale, according the sheriff’s department account.
Taylor and the older man went off for a walk, leaving the 12-year-old and the teenager alone in the cab. In a statement to police, the 15-year-old said he removed his pants and admitted to having sex, revealing the encounter only after being pressed by investigators.
Moments later, he said he left and Taylor approached the truck, climbing on top of the girl. The girl let out a scream, according to the police report, and he claims to have seen Taylor hitching up his pants.
The victim, the boy reported, turned to both of them and yelled, “You all planned this, didn’t you?”
At 4:50 a.m., the girl walked into a local emergency room, badly shaken. The doctor’s report noted that she had injuries consistent with rape.
Taylor was a tight-lipped client, never wavering from his claim that he’d driven all the passengers home that night without stopping in the ravine, according to Dale Gibson. (Taylor was less guarded around his 15-year-old companion, who recalls the older man whispering “Let’s keep our stories straight” when the two met in county jail.)
Clinton is all about the children! Everything she does is for the children. It takes a village idiot to rape a 12-year-old child, but a lecher to get the evildoer off with a two month sentence.
In 1975, the year she married Bill, Clinton was the court appointed attorney for Thomas Alfred Taylor.
The frontrunner for the 2016 presidential race goes into detail over five hours with Arkansas reporter Roy Reed during the interview, which was intended for an Esquire magazine profile that was never published.
Clinton describes Taylor as 'one of those rootless folks' and claims that the trial was a 'really interesting case.'
Taylor was accused of raping the 12-year-old girl in May, 1975, in Springdale, Arkansas.
The girl was a family friend and Clinton has acknowledged in her past 2003 memoir, Living History, the difficulties the case provided her having just moved to Fayetteville. to run the University of Arkansas' new legal aid clinic.
'This guy was accused of raping a 12-year-old. Course he claimed that he didn’t, and all this stuff,' says Clinton.
However, what is most shocking is the breezy manner in which she discusses her clients crime and the offhand way in which she questions his innocence.
'I had him take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs,' she says with a laugh.
Indeed, Clinton laughs during several different parts of the interview - especially when she discusses the forensic lab destroying key evidence - which led to Taylor getting away with the crime.
But, Ronald Rotunda, a professor of legal ethics at Chapman University, told the Washington Free Beacon. 'We don’t have to believe the client is innocent… our job is to represent the client in the best way we can within the bounds of the law.'
However, he did raise the possibility that Clinton may have breached the attorney-client privilege by discussing the case so openly.
'You can’t do that,' he said. 'Unless the client says: ‘You’re free to tell people that you really think I’m a scumbag, and the only reason I got a lighter sentence is because you’re a really clever lawyer.’
Taylor was accused of plying the girl with whisky and coke and raping her in his car that evening.
Part of the prosecution case against him was the testimony of the girl, two witnesses who saw them together and a 'pair of men's undershorts taken from the defendant herein.'
Crucially, even though Clinton was attacking the credibility of the girl's character, it was the underwear that allowed her client to walk free.
'You know, what was sad about it,' Clinton told Reed, 'was that the prosecutor had evidence, among which was Taylor’s underwear, which was bloody.'
However, the crime investigation lab failed to handle the evidence correctly.
'The crime lab took the pair of underpants, neatly cut out the part that they were gonna test, tested it, came back with the result of what kind of blood it was what was mixed in with it – then sent the pants back with the hole in it to evidence,' said Clinton.
'Of course the crime lab had thrown away the piece they had cut out.'
Jumping on this error, Clinton had the underwear taken to a renowned New York City forensic expert for confirmation that this evidence was now compromised.
'The story through the grape vine was that if you could get this investigator interested in the case then you had the foremost expert in the world willing to testify, so maybe it came out the way you wanted it to come out,' she said.
'Well this guy’s ready to come from New York to prevent this miscarriage of justice,' said a laughing Clinton on the tape describing her conversation with the Arkansas prosecutor.
In his opinion there was not enough blood on it to test and this ultimately caused Judge Maupin Cummings to decide that offering Taylor a plea deal would be the best option
Taylor, who died in 1992, pleaded guilty to unlawful fondling of a child and was sentenced to one year in prison, which was reduced to two months for time served.
However, her cavalier attitude to the rape case comes just over six months after she was honored by the Children's Defense Fund at its 40th anniversary soiree last September at the Kennedy Center.
And, ironically, the trial was instrumental in Clinton co-founding the first rape crisis hotline in Fayetteville.
But not once in the interview with Reed does Clinton mention the hotline she set up or the impact of the case on the 12-year-old girl.
The Free Beacon tracked down the victim, now aged 52, who still lives in Fayettevile.
She said that she was divorced and an addict to methamphetamines and was in prison for check forgery to pay for her drugs.
She expressed hostility towards Clinton for getting her rapist off and said her life has been miserable since.
Does this diseased dyke remember why she refused protection requested by Ambassador Stevens? Does she remember why she told the murdered former Navy Seal's mother that she would find out who made that big bad video? We don't need another conniving liar in the White House.
