Glenn Beck: A Victim's Perspective

June 25, 2008 - 12:48 ET

GLENN: Let me go to Jennifer in Iowa. Hello, Jennifer, you are on the Glenn Beck program.

CALLER: Hi. I just wanted to say I was molested by three different family members and you are murdered every time that it happens. A little piece of you dies. And for them not to understand that, they never must have been victims theirself and --

GLENN: Jennifer, I have to tell you God bless you for -- I mean, wow. What a wise individual you must be to have withstood all of that and not had it destroy you. Let me ask you the question that the Supreme Court said victims wouldn't testify or victims -- or perpetrators wouldn't be turned in if they were family members and they knew that they would have faced the death penalty. In your case would you have turned those perpetrators in, three different family members, if you knew if they were convicted they were going to get death?

CALLER: I wish death on them all the time. So I did turn them in but it was about 20 years ago and back then you still owned your kids basically. So they didn't do anything. My dad spent one night in jail and my grandfather was already dead and my aunt wasn't even arrested.

GLENN: Holy cow.

CALLER: So that's how I got treated. But that was 20 years ago. So I guess it's --

GLENN: How did you survive, Jennifer? What is your secret of being able to be violated that horribly by three family members?

CALLER: I really, I tried to commit suicide about six times and now I've been in counseling, intense every week counseling. I drive 100 miles round trip every week to see a counselor and, you know, when I heard that, I literally pulled over and threw up. As soon as you said that. I literally pulled over and threw up because you guys answer somebody the same, that a little kid deserves to be wrecked apart on the witness stand. Like I said, they never had anything like that happen to them. And for them to say that that event, I don't know. I tell you right now if anybody molested my child, I would kill them. I would kill them. They wouldn't have a chance to go to court. And that's my opinion and that's why it wouldn't happen. If I had to spend the rest of my life in jail to get that kind of justice for my child, I would give my life. I would give my life to save my child.

GLENN: Jennifer, God love you. God bless you. Thank you so much for calling and sharing that with us. Your thoughts in a minute. Back in a flash.