Ignoramus1487 wrote:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:05:36 GMT, Jeff McCann wrote:

Chuck Sherwood wrote:

The girl's brother, sister, and mother backed up her story and in the
end she was never charged.


The really sad part is that the mother continued to let it happen.
Why didn't she have the courage to stop the father?

Why wasn't she prosecuted as an accessory to capital sexual assault, or
something similar? She apparently failed to take steps necessary to
protect her daughter from serious harm.


That probably was before laws about child abuse/neglect took present
shape.

Laws against rape and accessory to rape have been around for hundreds of
years, dating at least from English Common Law.

Jeff