Monsters exist and they live among us. They are usually hard to identify and sometimes they even masquerade as the very people who are supposed to protect us from them.
This particular monster is Lee William Giles Jr.. Giles is the worst kind for he was the kind of monster posing as someone tasked with guarding us against such beasts. Lee Giles was a 30 year veteran of the Tacoma Police Department. He wasn't just a cop. For many years he was called "the face of the Tacoma Police Department." To a lot of kids, he was the TPD.
Why is Lee Giles a monster? Him and his girlfriend systematically molested her son and two female relatives over a period of years.
Originally, he was charged with 26 crimes. By the time he pleaded guilty last November, the charges had been reduced to single counts: first-degree child rape, second-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation and third-degree assault.
Unlike the storybook monsters that bite or cut, the wounds this monster created may never heal.
The boy gave a handwritten statement to the court. He stood silently while his attorney read it aloud. Giles and Wear stood a few feet away.
The teen talked about his own life sentence. He said he often asks himself questions.
“What would I be like if I was normal?” he wrote.
Giles and Wear showed no visible reaction to the boy’s statement. They were equally stoic when the boy’s father gave a letter to the court.
He explained how he first learned of the years of sexual abuse his son endured. The father was driving. The boy blurted out the secret. The father plowed into a parked car.
In the days that followed, the father realized the scale of trauma. Molested since the age of 7, the boy had never been taught to brush his teeth or take showers. He thought sex with family members was normal. He’d been drugged for years, on the pretext of calming his hyperactivity. The real reason was to keep him docile.
“How do you undo that?” the father asked Friday.
The problem is that you can't undo it and this boy will probably need to be watched the rest of his life.
The boy has an alarm on his bedroom door so his father knows when he goes in and out. He can’t be left alone with younger siblings. His therapy is ongoing.
“How long will the sentence be for us?” the father asked.
We all know the answer to that question. For that boy, it's more than a life sentence. The wounds that were left behind will haunt his family long after the victim and his attackers are gone.
Giles is 63 and he got 19+ years with no possibility of parole. His is presumably a life sentence. His girlfriend will be sentenced on the 25th of this month. Death by torture wouldn't be good enough for either of them, but unfortunately we can't administer the justice they really deserve. So be it. Let them rot in jail.
VW
19 years is disgusting, With free medical he will possibly live to see the end of his term. He deserves nothing less than life without parole and 100% forfiture of all assests to the victim and family. Including his pension.
This makes me so angry I can't type anymore.
Posted by: Just another republican | Monday, January 07, 2008 at 22:06