'Hillary
Clinton took me through hell': Child rape victim claims Clinton smeared her in
1975 to get lighter sentence for attacker she knew was guilty
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Victim says Clinton is a hypocrite for
championing women's rights after helping her attacker find loophole in the case
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Clinton had defended Thomas Taylor, 41, in
Fayettville, Arkansas
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Clinton is heard laughing as she discusses
the case in recently found audio interview from the early 1980s
The woman
who had her claims of being raped as a child overturned by Hillary Clinton in
Arkansas in 1975 has accused the former Secretary of State of being a
hypocrite.
The
unnamed victim says Clinton should not be known as a champion of women's rights
after the then-attorney found a way for her attacker to get off on a lesser
charge and lighter sentence.
As newly
released tapes of Clinton discussing the case surfaced, the woman, who was a
12-year-old virgin at the time of the attack, told the Daily
Beast her character had been smeared in the trial.
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down to listen to the audio interview
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Accusations: Hillary Clinton,
pictured with daughter Chelsea earlier this month. The victim of a sex offender
she represented has spoken out about how Clinton treated the case
She
accused Clinton of misrepresenting her as a child who sought out the attention
of older men and who had made false claims of abuse before.
'Hillary
Clinton took me through Hell,' the victim said, after hearing how Clinton had
laughed as she discussed the trial in a recorded interview.
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Legal past: Hillary Clinton,
pictured in 1980, helped a man accused of child rape get a lighter sentence
Denying
claims in the trial that she was 'emotionally unstable' and had a tendency to
seek out older men, the victim said she would call Clinton a hypocrite if she
met her again, and said she would be concerned if Clinton ran for
President.
'If she
becomes president, is she gonna be telling the world the truth? No. She’s going
to be telling lies out there, what the world wants to hear,' the victim said.
She added
that if she met her again she would tell Clinton: 'You took a case of mine in
'75, you lied on me… I realize the truth now, the heart of what you’ve done to
me.
'And you
are supposed to be for women? You call that [being] for women, what you done to
me? And I hear you on tape laughing",' the victim told the Daily Beast.
In an
interview that was recorded but never released, Clinton had discussed the case,
which was her first as a criminal defense lawyer.
During the
course of the conversation which dates from the early 1980s, Clinton, then 27,
outlined how she used a mistake by the prosecution to get 41-year-old Thomas
Alfred Taylor a lighter sentence.
Taylor,
who died in 1992, pleaded guilty to unlawful fondling of a child and was
sentenced to one year in prison, which was reduced for time served.
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Shockingly,
Clinton laughed as she indicated that she knew he may have been guilty, and
discussed how she got him to take a lie detector test.
'I had him
take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever destroyed my faith in
polygraphs,' Clinton said with a laugh.
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Career path: Bill and Hillary in
1969. In 1975, the year the couple were married, Clinton represented Thomas
Taylor in her first trial as a criminal defense lawyer
The victim
said her experiences and the way she was treated in court left her scared of
men for years. She never married or had children, and turned to drugs at one
point.
Although
she managed to get her life back on track, the woman said she remains angry at
what she called a 'miscarriage of justice'.
'It’s
proven fact, with all the tapes, [Clinton] lied like a dog on me. I think she
was trying to do whatever she could do to make herself look good at the time,'
th ewoman said.
'She
didn’t care if those guys did it or not. I do not think justice was served at
all.'
The woman
added that before the rape trial she had never previously accused anyone of
attacking or harming her.
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Distressed: The victim has
accused Clinton, pictured at the Children's Defense Fund's 40th anniversary
last year, as a hypocrite for calling herself a champion on women's rights
She
claimed that when she spoke to a Newsday reporter in 2008, she was misquoted
when she said she was 'sure Hillary was just doing her job'.
'If I had
known that day what I know now, I would have told him exactly what I'm telling
y'all today,' she told the Daily Beast.
After
hearing the tapes of Clinton discussing her case, the victim said she was moved
to tears.
'[Clinton]
owes me a big apology, [but] I’ll probably never get anything from her,' she
said.
Listen to
the Audio Interview Here
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