A few flaws:
I’ve read this as a tale of two distinct communities, where she was going out of her circle into his. As such, your notion that everyone in such a small town would have known of his behavior is a little questionable.
It could be that since he was well-known to be engaged, suddenly the well of women to have sex with dried up quickly, prompting him to change his behavior a little towards the audacious.
Suppose he’s previously gotten women to his apartment and then hit them with roofies. Such women might spread the word that he’s a jerk, but perhaps not that he’s a rapist. Now, he’s more desperate and taking bigger chances... For every event, there’s a first time.
There’s also strong evidence it wasn’t consensual: wounds consistent with having been dragged, the fact that the video shows him CARRYING her out, and, oh, yes... her testimony. Since he is impeached as a witness, and as evidence emerged, it supported her side, her testimony is more valid than simply a “scorned lover.”
At any rate, even if he is innocent, he is certainly a disgusting piece of human filth who hardly seems deserving of such condolences. Consider his side of the story: that he lied to his fiance’ about having sex with someone accusing him of sexual assault. I can see why his character witnesses didn’t sway the jury. I’m sure the jury thought the priest might have well thought, “Well, you have to understand, a man has his needs; just ask little Timmy, my altar boy.”
And what a crappy lawyer! How could you possibly let your client tell such lies without first ascertaining what physical evidence could contradict him?
Do you know that his fiancee still promises to marry him?
Michelle O’Sullivan (32) made the comments after her fiance, Danny Foley (35), was jailed on Wednesday for five years for sexually assaulting a woman in Listowel, Co Kerry, in June 2008.
She visited him in Cork prison yesterday and said he is in “good spirits” and added that she plans to marry the former bouncer as soon as he is released from prison.
“I would describe Danny as the gentlest soul I have ever met in my life,” she said.
“I would call him considerate, thoughtful, kind and decent and trustworthy.”
He asked for her hand in marriage just two days before his sex assault trial started – but she said she had “absolutely no doubt whatsoever” that he was the man she wanted to marry.
How does that figure into it?
Like I said, I really want to believe the prosecution's case...I really want to condemn the priest who stood up for this guy...but there are too many things that are, to me, at least, are just plain strange.