"I am making payments, every month, to my own rapist," said Crystal Harris, who was raped by her husband. Now she's being forced to pay him spousal support!
"I just think it's wrong to make a rape victim pay her rapist," said Harris.
Harris says she had been financially supporting her unemployed, abusive husband Shawn Harris for years. But after he raped her in 2008 she filed criminal charges against him.
The jury was played a tape that was secretly recorded. On the tape you can hear a bloodcurdling scream that goes on and on. You can also hear her saying "No" 50 times.
Harris thought her nightmare was over when the jury returned a guilty verdict. Shawn was sentenced to six years in prison for sexual assault.
But incredibly, he sued her from behind bars and now a judge is forcing her to pay him $1,000 a month in spousal support.
She says the judge actually told her she should be paying her ex-husband $3,000 a month based on her $110,000 a year income as a financial analyst in San Diego, but because of the rape, he was giving her a discount. Read More...
She says the judge actually told her she should be paying her ex-husband $3,000 a month based on her $110,000 a year income as a financial analyst in San Diego, but because of the rape, he was giving her a discount.
I studied about this in womans studies. My professor said that intermarriage rape is very common and the courts/police dont recognize it because its supposed to be the wifes duty to have sex with the man.
I studied about this in womans studies. My professor said that intermarriage rape is very common and the courts/police dont recognize it because its supposed to be the wifes duty.
I would hope that **** doesn't happen anymore. That's like something straight out of the 80's.
