“I don’t think that Ted belongs in jail. The things in Florida don’t concern me.” — Carole Ann Boone
She watched Ted Bundy’s murder trials, heard the evidence against him, and STILL believed he was innocent.
Boone met Bundy in 1974 while they worked together in Washington State. She became one of his most devoted supporters, following his legal battles from Utah to Colorado and eventually Florida.
She attended court, helped with his defense, visited him in jail, and publicly dismissed the murder accusations.
In this archival footage, reporters recall how Boone explained away incriminating testimony, while Bundy’s former girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall describes recognizing the same manipulation she had experienced.
In February 1980, Boone married Bundy inside a Florida courtroom, while testifying on his behalf during the penalty phase of his trial for the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
They later had a daughter, Rose, while Bundy was on death row.
Boone divorced him in 1986, three years before his execution.
Even after sitting through the testimony and hearing the evidence, Boone continued defending him.
It’s a disturbing example of how loyalty and manipulation can cloud someone’s judgment.
This is abuse. I’m pissed off watching this again years later.
Watch Mary Kay Letourneau pressure the boy she sexually abused—now her husband—to take responsibility for HER actions.
“Who was the boss?
Who was the boss back then?!”
“This is ridiculous,” Vili says.
“This is getting weird.”
She keeps pushing.
He was 12 when the abuse began. She was his TEACHER. She stole his innocence, and years later she’s still trying to make him responsible.
“Oh, well, flaw me.”
Flaw you? You sexually abused a CHILD. You should have been locked up for life.
And where was the protective instinct of the women who gave her a pass? How did their sympathy land with HER?
This was normalized through “forbidden love” headlines, wedding coverage and endless media attention.
His abuse became entertainment. Their marriage was packaged as a happy ending.
He never owed her—or anyone—a defense of what she did.
Shame on anyone that encouraged this.
She was an abusive piece of shit.
And good on that interviewer for saying what he did. @7NewsAustralia
I spent years working as a counselor with veterans—men carrying PTSD from war and from life.
I can’t tell you how many were also carrying unresolved trauma from being sexually abused as children.
These were tough men. Their strength didn’t erase what happened or make it easy to talk about.
Trauma can be invisible. Someone can work, laugh and raise a family while carrying pain you know nothing about. Looking strong doesn’t mean someone isn’t suffering.
Then people have the nerve to say a boy abused by a woman “probably liked it.”
Imagine finally speaking about something that hurt you deeply—and hearing someone call it a fantasy. Or congratulate you.
That attitude helps silence male victims.
And we need to talk about grooming. An adult can build trust, give a child special attention, introduce secrecy and gradually cross boundaries. The child may struggle to recognize the abuse, blame themselves or feel responsible for protecting the abuser.
A child can feel affection, loyalty or love toward someone hurting them. That does not make it consensual.
A child cannot consent to sexual activity with an adult.
I don’t give a fuck what excuses you make. “He wanted it,” “he pursued her” and “he was mature for his age” do not change the adult’s responsibility.
Abuse mixed with affection and reassurance can create a powerful attachment sometimes called a trauma bond. Not every attachment to an abuser is a trauma bond, but caring about the person who hurt you can make recognizing the abuse and leaving complicated.
“He defended her.” “He stayed.” “He married her.”
None of that retroactively makes childhood abuse consensual.
A victim does not have to hate their abuser—or behave the way you expect—for what happened to count.
If you believe men “always want it,” examine why you think they’re less deserving of boundaries, protection and empathy than you are. They’re human beings—not sex machines.
And not every man is a piece of shit because the men you’ve dated were.
Your experiences don’t justify dismissing someone else’s suffering.
To the women excusing female predators:
You’re the problem.
The effects can be profound, but survivors are not broken beyond repair. Healing is possible. They deserve support without shame and your bullshit projection.
So respectfully, I know what the fuck I’m talking about and I don’t have the patience or tolerance for that abuse and predator sympathizer shit.
Your misandry is showing, girl.
I just watched the 20/20 special on JonBenét Ramsey, and I honestly don’t know if I think someone in the family did it.
It was sad to see her father still trying to find answers. I hope he does. I think he’s genuine.
The crime was more horrific than I remembered too. God, it was bad.
Who do you think killed her?
What makes you lean that way?
I spent years working as a counselor with veterans—men carrying PTSD from war and from life.
I can’t tell you how many were also carrying unresolved trauma from being sexually abused as children.
These were tough men. Their strength didn’t erase what happened or make it easy to talk about.
Trauma can be invisible. Someone can work, laugh and raise a family while carrying pain you know nothing about. Looking strong doesn’t mean someone isn’t suffering.
Then people have the nerve to say a boy abused by a woman “probably liked it.”
Imagine finally speaking about something that hurt you deeply—and hearing someone call it a fantasy. Or congratulate you.
That attitude helps silence male victims.
And we need to talk about grooming. An adult can build trust, give a child special attention, introduce secrecy and gradually cross boundaries. The child may struggle to recognize the abuse, blame themselves or feel responsible for protecting the abuser.
A child can feel affection, loyalty or love toward someone hurting them. That does not make it consensual.
A child cannot consent to sexual activity with an adult.
I don’t give a fuck what excuses you make. “He wanted it,” “he pursued her” and “he was mature for his age” do not change the adult’s responsibility.
Abuse mixed with affection and reassurance can create a powerful attachment sometimes called a trauma bond. Not every attachment to an abuser is a trauma bond, but caring about the person who hurt you can make recognizing the abuse and leaving complicated.
“He defended her.” “He stayed.” “He married her.”
None of that retroactively makes childhood abuse consensual.
A victim does not have to hate their abuser—or behave the way you expect—for what happened to count.
If you believe men “always want it,” examine why you think they’re less deserving of boundaries, protection and empathy than you are. They’re human beings—not sex machines.
And not every man is a piece of shit because the men you’ve dated were.
Your experiences don’t justify dismissing someone else’s suffering.
To the women excusing female predators:
You’re the problem.
The effects can be profound, but survivors are not broken beyond repair. Healing is possible. They deserve support without shame and your bullshit projection.
So respectfully, I know what the fuck I’m talking about and I don’t have the patience or tolerance for that abuse and predator sympathizer shit.
Your misandry is showing, girl.
🚨 BREAKING: SCHOOL AIDE ARRESTED IN KATIE SUAREZ’S KILLING AFTER DAYS-LONG SEARCH
NYPD arrested Sayed Mohassib, 27, today, charging him with second-degree murder, weapon possession and evidence tampering.
Investigators reportedly tracked him through surveillance footage near Brooklyn’s Shore Parkway Greenway. Video led detectives to a barbershop, where they obtained his identity, according to NBC New York’s law-enforcement sources.
Police sources say Mohassib claimed he couldn’t remember the attack—that he blacked out and woke up covered in blood, holding a knife. He allegedly discarded it in the garbage.
Mohassib worked as an aide at P.S. 200 and reportedly continued reporting to work after the killing. The Education Department says he has been suspended.
Katie, 28, was attacked while running October 30. At 7:56 p.m., she told her father she was about half a mile away and would meet him soon.
Twenty minutes later, after she failed to arrive, he found his daughter unconscious beneath a tree, bleeding from her neck. She died three days later.
Investigators have not announced a motive.
Horrific. 🙏🏻
HE WAS ONLY 8 YEARS OLD. HIS MOTHER'S BOYFRIEND BELIEVED HE WAS GAY — AND USED THAT AS ONE OF MANY EXCUSES TO TORTURE HIM.
WATCH THIS 2-MINUTE CLIP FROM THE TRIAL, PLEASE.
The Gabriel Fernandez case is so much worse than I remember. I've been seeing so many people sharing his story, and I'm glad they are. This little boy deserved to have a voice when he was alive, and now people are making sure he is finally being heard.
In 2013, 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez was being tortured inside his home in Palmdale, California, by his mother, Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre.
One of the most disturbing details to emerge during Aguirre's trial was that he believed Gabriel was gay.
Prosecutors said Aguirre repeatedly beat Gabriel because of that belief. He viewed the little boy's gentle, sensitive nature as something to punish. Gabriel was also humiliated by being forced to wear girls' clothing to school.
Think about how sick that is. An adult man terrorizing an 8-year-old child over what he imagined that child's sexuality might be.
And that was only one part of the cruelty Gabriel endured.
He was beaten, burned, shot with a BB gun, pepper-sprayed, starved, and forced to eat cat litter, cat feces, and his own vomit. He was bound and gagged and forced to sleep inside a small cabinet.
Meanwhile, his first-grade teacher, Jennifer Garcia, watched him deteriorate before her eyes.
She saw the bruises, burns, and injuries. Gabriel eventually confided in her about the abuse.
Garcia repeatedly contacted Child Protective Services. But Gabriel kept returning to school injured, and she began to fear that reporting the abuse was making things worse for him.
Then Gabriel stopped coming to school.
His teacher was told he'd gone to live with relatives in Texas.
She desperately wanted to believe it.
About a week later, she learned he was dead.
After his murder, Garcia found a note hidden inside his school desk. In the shaky handwriting of a first grader, Gabriel had written:
“I LOVE YOU MOM AND GABRIEL IS A GOOD BOY.”
Those words absolutely destroy me.
And let's not forget that CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES FAILED HIM TOO. There were repeated warnings, visible injuries, and opportunities to intervene. Yet Gabriel remained in that home.
Aguirre was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Now, under Gavin Newsom's announced commutation plans, his sentence could be changed to life without parole.
Gabriel's mother, Pearl Fernandez, avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty and accepting life without parole. She has repeatedly tried to get resentenced, including an unsuccessful attempt earlier this year.
I also found a jailhouse interview Pearl gave to a YouTuber last year, and I'll be sharing it. I find her demeanor and statements absolutely despicable.
THIS ENTIRE CASE INFURIATES ME.
Gabriel was tortured by the very people who were supposed to love and protect him. The system failed him, too.
And after everything he endured, that little boy was still writing notes telling his mother he loved her and that he was a good boy.
I just watched the 20/20 special on JonBenét Ramsey, and I honestly don’t know if I think someone in the family did it.
It was sad to see her father still trying to find answers. I hope he does. I think he’s genuine.
The crime was more horrific than I remembered too. God, it was bad.
Who do you think killed her?
What makes you lean that way?