By American Renaissance | Created at 2024-10-29 23:04:09 | Updated at 2024-10-31 01:18:38
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Vice President Kamala Harris has portrayed herself as a champion of women throughout her career, but that image is now in jeopardy with the election in just seven days.
Details of a horrific rape case plea deal brokered by the assistant district attorney while she was district attorney exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com calls into question her commitment to protecting women.
In 2008, Lillian Gradillas was sitting in a party bus late at night after she was not allowed into a nightclub because she lacked the proper identification to enter with the rest of her family and friends.
The driver, Gustavo Rosales, attacked Gradillas multiple times on the bus before forcibly raping her, despite her attempt to fight off his advances, according to court testimony.
At the time, Rosales was ‘illegally in the United States, convicted of assaulting his spouse, evading his child support obligations and unqualified to operate a bus’ according to the plaintiff complaint filed in a civil suit against the company.
Gradillas testified in the sentencing hearing, revealing the details of that night.
‘I live with the constant reminder of that horrible night,’ she said, describing it as her ‘longest nightmare.’
She revealed she lost her job, suffered lower grades in school, and was heavily medicated while she struggled to hold her family together.
Rosales struck a plea deal with attorneys reporting to Kamala Harris and pleaded guilty to the crime.
As a result, Rosales was sentenced to just three years in prison.
The details of the brazen and frightening rape, including her personal testimony were not enough to earn Rosales a tougher sentence.
Rosales was released early for good behavior in 2010, just one year after his conviction after earning over a year of time served since the initial 2008 arrest.
Sources told DailyMail.com that Rosales should have been sentenced to at least seven years in prison even in a plea deal, and could have easily been sent away to prison longer if he did have a prior domestic violence offense mentioned in the civil complaint.
‘It’s stunningly remarkable,’ a lawyer familiar with the case said to DailyMail.com. ‘It’s so low.’
California State Representative Bilal Essayli told DailyMail.com that the sentence was ‘extremely light.’
‘This guy got the lowest possible sentence he could have for committing a rape and I don’t how you justify that with his previous criminal conviction as well as his being in the country unlawfully,’ he said.
The case and plea deal was filed and agreed to by assistant district attorney Adrian Ivancevich.
Typically, an assistant district attorney would be given assigned guidelines for plea deals, Essayli said, but anything out of normal would require Harris to personally approve it.
‘Not matter what, she’s responsible for every disposition that comes out of that office, because she’s a leader of that office,’ he said.
It is unclear where Rosales is today, as he was last reported in 2010 living in Sacramento according to documents.
DailyMail.com reached out to the Harris campaign for comment but didn’t hear back.
Years later, the case brought to a civil court where Gradillas was awarded $2 million in 2012 for the incident after holding the business owner and the company insurance company liable, according to Courthouse News.
After campaigning as a ‘progressive’ prosecutor, Harris relied on plea deals when she was the District Attorney of San Francisco to keep her conviction rates high.
The San Francisco Weekly reported in 2010 Harris had won only 55 percent of murder trials since the beginning of 2009, and that in the first quarter of 2010 her office’s conviction rate for all felony trials was only 53 percent.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has constantly talked about illegal migrants committing crimes on the campaign trail.
He has railed against migrant crime, specifically in places like Aurora, Colorado where rumors of a Venezuelan gang invading apartment complexes have gone viral.
‘They’re going in with guns that are beyond even military scope and they’re taking over apartment buildings,’ Trump said in North Carolina last week about Aurora. ‘They’re literally taking over those towns.’
‘Thousands of migrants from the most dangerous countries are destroying the character of small towns and leaving local communities in anguish and in despair,’ he said, talking about communities in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
He even has proposed a shocking, one-off solution to American crime problems that some are saying resembles the popular horror movie series The Purge.
At a rally last month, Trump cited recent incidents of daylight robberies taking place in local businesses and suggested that criminals ‘have to be taught’ a lesson and suggested a quick and simple way to do so.
‘If you had one really violent day. One rough hour — and I mean real rough — the word would get out and it would end immediately,’ Trump said.
