Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 21, 2012

While waiting for a taxi ride shortly after midnight last May 6, Magdalena Mol, a young wife and mother fromBurbank,Illinois, was accosted by a police officer Carmen Scardine, who ordered the young woman to get into his car.

Without explaining why he had takenMagdalenainto custody, Scardine demanded identification and then called the dispatcher to run her name. He then drove the terrified young woman to a secluded area and sexually assaulted her.

Magdalenafiled an official complaint, which was upheld by the Police Department. She has filed a lawsuit against the department and the city government ? but there is no record that Scardine has been prosecuted, or even subjected to official discipline. This is most likely because the Officer would claim that the victim had consented to the act ? because she didn?t resist.

Of course, ifMagdalenahad resisted, she most likely would have been prosecuted for resisting arrest or even aggravated assault on a police officer. This assumes, of course, that Scardine didn?t kill her while taking her into custody.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.