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Stepdad gets 18 years for rape exposed in college essay
New York Post ^ | Amber Sutherland and Bruce Golding

Posted on 07/09/2014 7:04:45 PM PDT by Morgana

A Brooklyn man was sentenced Monday to 18 years ​behind bars for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter — who kept the sickening sex attack a secret until revealing it in a college-application essay nearly a decade later.

Albert Tarrats, 62, remained mum throughout his sentencing in Brooklyn Supreme Court, but prosecutor Anna Krutaya read a statement from his victim, who ​wrote that she’s still haunted by his monstrous crimes.

“Getting closure and justice on this horrific situation is the best thing I could have gotten from this experience,” the now-18-year-old woman wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: 8yearold; brooklyn; ny; rape; stepdad; stepdaughter
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1 posted on 07/09/2014 7:04:45 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Only 18 years?


2 posted on 07/09/2014 7:08:36 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

I’ll be surprised if he serves that!


3 posted on 07/09/2014 7:12:25 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Yep especially in NYC, probably gets 2 days off for every day served for “good behavior”


4 posted on 07/09/2014 7:15:35 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Morgana

This man went to jail, probably ON HER WORD ALONE.

Lying kid?


5 posted on 07/09/2014 7:15:49 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

I agree.

This guy had the entire kitchen cabinet thrown at him.

If he did it, ok. However if she made it up...

If she made it up.


6 posted on 07/09/2014 7:23:13 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

No one ever really knows what goes on in the next door neighbor’s house.


7 posted on 07/09/2014 7:28:39 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“If she made it up.”

The female never lies - the nice FemiNazi says so.

Welcome to the debauched & degraded America where our laws based on hundreds of years of societal evolution, culminating in the Founding Documents are now debased by the “Agenda Uber Alles” activists.


8 posted on 07/09/2014 7:28:52 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and for what Muslims do.)
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To: GladesGuru; Cringing Negativism Network

One thing you all need to take into consideration. This was his stepdaughter. What have we learned here at FR? The worst thing a child can hear is “Mommy’s new boyfriend” (or Daddy’s new girlfriend)

A stepparent is more likely to commit abuse like this than a real parent.


9 posted on 07/09/2014 7:34:52 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

There’s gotta be more to the story than the Post is reporting. Even the ultra-lefty courts in NY aren’t going to throw the guy in prison without some kind of actual evidence. At least not yet.


10 posted on 07/09/2014 7:44:34 PM PDT by Little Pig
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To: Morgana
“A stepparent is more likely to commit abuse like this than a real parent.”

Quite true.

Which in no way responds to my post in which I noted that until the FemiNazi Era, evidence was required. “He said” v. “She said” had too many instances of miscarriage of justice, especially when many years had elapsed.

11 posted on 07/09/2014 8:00:24 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and for what Muslims do.)
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To: GladesGuru

Many children were molested when they were young. It went unreported or was just not caught but the children know it happened. So when years later the child/adult speaks out how are they suppose to “prove” it? Am not trying to go on a witch hunt here but at the same time families have had “dirty little secrets” kept hidden that need exposed.


12 posted on 07/09/2014 8:07:51 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: GladesGuru
To many times false claims have been admitted after decades of prison.
Step kids can also be the most evil and deviant of children who will do
anything to take away attention for themselves. Or to get even for invented neglect.

Also, to the FemiNazi's any discipline is considered abuse.

More info is needed though.

13 posted on 07/09/2014 8:10:54 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

This man went to jail, probably ON HER WORD ALONE.

Lying kid?
............................................
How do you know that the conviction was based on her word alone?


14 posted on 07/09/2014 8:21:44 PM PDT by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: MaxMax

“Step kids can also be the most evil and deviant of children who will do
anything to take away attention for themselves.”

That’s it blame the kids. If the kids were so bad then why did the step parent marry the kid’s natural parent?

A lot of this crap would not happen if divorce and out of wedlock children were not happening.


15 posted on 07/09/2014 8:44:37 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: GladesGuru
She says he did it, he says he didn't. After ten years more or less, I can't imagine what other evidence there could be. The article mentions none, just a jury trial and a conviction of a man with no prior record. The fact that she didn't report this offense at all, and even says her intention was to write an essay for a college application, allows for negative inference.

If we start putting people away merely because an individual fits a statistical sample, we will have left the very concept of justice behind, and ventured out onto dangerously thin ice.

16 posted on 07/09/2014 8:47:56 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Morgana

Yeah I’m not going to bat for the guy.

Just mentioning it as a possibility is all.

Maybe he’s completely guilty.

The jury seemed to think so. Could be they got it right. Dunno.


17 posted on 07/09/2014 9:07:42 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Morgana
To many factors already are against this accusation being true. The primary
reason for a false accusation in this case would be College Essay, attention.
To convict a man from a College Essay and hearsay is an abomination of justice.

I'm not buying it. She was grabbing attention by a crazy essay and
since people believed it she just went along with it to the extreme while
being coached by some nutjob feminist. Yea, they do that.

We don't know all the details but I'm calling False accusation here.
Child abuse is very serious and down right dirty, and this one is just to clean.

18 posted on 07/09/2014 9:14:14 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: MaxMax

God forbid evil, deviant children should want attention from their parents that might cramp the new spouse’s style.


19 posted on 07/09/2014 9:47:18 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: MaxMax

Were you at the trial? You have no idea what other evidence was presented. Maybe she identified a mole on his weewee. Maybe the mother “knew” but turned a blind eye.


20 posted on 07/09/2014 9:49:49 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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