Lizzybeth--That's one of the great ironies of our case. Absolutely everything was subpoenaed and presented about our children--medical records, therapy case notes, family financial records, diaries, school records--over 1,500 documents were turned over. We had to do it for the trial in 1999 and for the Post Conviction Relief Trial (including all the same records for our family SINCE the trial) in 2007. Our family was heavily scrutinized and that's how we lost our privacy and confidentiality.
However, the rapist was totally protected from any investigation of this sort. There was a search warrant but no previous medical, school, or therapy records were allowed in. There was no questioning allowed concerning any abuse within his family. Nothing. That drove us crazy at the time. That's what caused us to work hard on changing the laws in Oregon concerning the compulsion of victim's testimony at PCR trials years later. I'd like to know why they asked for my personal diaries and all our family financial records for the decade after the case. Were they thinking we were working up for a reality TV show or something? I'm sorry but sometimes it still makes me feel snarky.
Thankfully, the Oregon Supreme Court issued a Writ of Mandamus and said that the request of records would not be allowed for the PCR trial. Well, it was too late. Our schools, doctors, and therapists knocked themselves out to comply with those subpoenas. They complied with what a Circuit Court Judge had ordered. It was too late and our personal records still sit in a law office somewhere. The Writ also was too late to stop the depositions of the kids nine years after the rapes. That's when we had the rash of suicide attempts and the time the rapist smirked at our children's pain. It was horribly hard.
The rapist was jailed for 10 years and never admitted his crimes. He was convicted on 12 counts. We suspect that there was some abuse in his background. The only other possibility is that he was "born evil" and I'm not sure I buy that idea. There was an adult also charged along with him (for rape of two of our kids and also noted by several of our kids to have abused the teen) but due to the fact that the teen refused to testify against this man, the charges were dropped. If anything changes, he can be tried, however.
So, yes, I'm almost positive that someone sexually harmed this teen. That's the $64,0000 question that's kept me up at night for the last 12 years. Who?