Howard Rollins and Geoffrey Thorne find a battered and bleeding woman on a creek shore and she says she was attacked and raped. She's lying and Carroll
O'Connor suspects so. Forensics is what convinces Rollins though.
The case makes Rollins flashback on a tragedy involving his sister in her childhood. That's a poignant story when told.
But their current victim Caryn West is a tragedy waiting to happen. As many battered women do they rationalize that it's their fault. In a moment of candor she confesses that she has no real job skills for anything above barely subsistence wage. Back in my Crime Victims Board days I recall a case just like the one here.
Caryn West and Michael Keys Hall give almost perfect portrayals of a the battered and the batterer.
The case makes Rollins flashback on a tragedy involving his sister in her childhood. That's a poignant story when told.
But their current victim Caryn West is a tragedy waiting to happen. As many battered women do they rationalize that it's their fault. In a moment of candor she confesses that she has no real job skills for anything above barely subsistence wage. Back in my Crime Victims Board days I recall a case just like the one here.
Caryn West and Michael Keys Hall give almost perfect portrayals of a the battered and the batterer.
