Slap on the Wrist: SUN investigation Reveals that Defendants in Child Rape and Molestation Cases Rarely Go to Prison

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(SUNfoto by Jose de Wit) Nurses seat this teddy bear in the room while examining child sexual abuse victims at the Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Treatment Center. The bear helps victims feel at ease in a traumatic situation, Center education department manager Teresa Candelaria said. “That bear’s seen a lot of kids,” Candelaria, also a forensic interviewer, said.

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Dennis Kirkwood’s youngest victim was 5 years old when the sexual abuse started.     Kirkwood, the girl’s then-58-year-old step-grandfather, made her watch pornographic movies with him at the Medanales home where they lived with the victim’s grandmother, and engage in…

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