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The State of Texas vs. Rachel Childs

Trafficking of Persons

Jury Selection

A process of elimination

Trafficking

of Persons

The State's Case

1) Traffic

+

2) Engage in forced labor or services

OR

3) Use force, fraud, or coercion to engage in conduct or recieve a benefit

Traffic

Traffic

To:

  • Transport
  • Entice
  • Recruit
  • Harbor
  • Or obtain a person by any means

Forced Labor or Services

Forced

Labor/

Services

Labor or services (not sex) that are obtained through somone's use of force, fraud, or coercion

Force, Fraud, & Coercion

Force,

Fraud,

Coercion

Fraud

What does fraud mean to you?

  • A lie used to get someone else to do something?
  • A falsehood that someone else relies on for something?
  • A deception?

Penal

Code

43.02

Texas Penal Code 43.02 - Prostitution

A person commits an offense if they knowingly offer or agree to receive a fee to engage in sexual conduct

This goes both ways

Sexual Conduct

  • Sexual intercourse
  • Deviate Sexual Intercourse
  • Sexual contact

Sexual Contact - ANY touching of the anus, breast, or part of the genitals of another person with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person

The Charge

The Charge - Count One

traffic

  • Rachel Ann Childs
  • On or about December 14, 2018
  • In Brazoria County, Texas
  • Knowingly
  • Rachel Callahan
  • With intent that she
  • Engage in

Transport, Entice,

Recruit

_______ Callahan to move the defendant from one place to the other

forced labor or services

Labor or services obtained by force, fraud, or coercion

Lie to Callahan to get her to do defendant's dirty deeds

The Charge - Count Two

Prostitution - Sexual Contact

  • Rachel Ann Childs
  • On or about December 14, 2018
  • In Brazoria County, Texas
  • Intentionally or knowingly traffic
  • Rachel Callahan
  • Through force, fraud, or coercion

ANY touching of the breast or genitals - ALL the times Callahan wiped or touched or got touched

Caused her to engage in conduct prohibited by Texas Penal Code Section 42.03

The Charge - Count Three

  • Rachel Ann Childs
  • On or about December 14, 2018
  • In Brazoria County, Texas
  • Intentionally or knowingly
  • Receive a benefit of sexual arousal and gratification from
  • Trafficking Rachel Callahan
  • Through force, fraud, or coercion and
  • Caused her to engage in conduct prohibited by Texas Penal Code Section 42.03

Constitutional Rights

Constitutional Rights

Presumption of innocence

The right to remain silent (5th)

The right to confront witnesses (6th)

The Burden of Proof

Beyond a reasonable doubt

There is no definition, but:

  • Not beyond all doubt

  • Not 100% sure

Resolving beyond a reasonable doubt

Resolving beyond a reasonable doubt

Is it reasonable?

Do I have a doubt?

Does it go to an element of the offense?

Evidence and Testimony

Evidence

Witness Credibility

Witness Credibility

Goes along with the right to

confront witnesses

Requires no special analysis or trick

Allows you to make your own

judgements based on perception

Has NOTHING to do with someone's job

Testimony vs. Evidence

Who you heard from

Jenna:

Where it starts

  • The manipulation
  • The "story"

The connection between diapers and gratification

Morgan and Robyn

The story evolves - the first instance of an "autistic" person

The reward of fantasy role play

The suggestion of diaper cream - The ultimate touching

Katelyn

The scheme/fantasy coming into the final stages

Still selecting younger, immature victims

She reveals the most embarassing thing:

That she feels victimized

Alice

Stretches the scheme just a little too far - "Kat and Rachel"

Gets caught but not called out

More of everything:

  • Deeper into childlike behavior
  • More intense manipulation
  • More diaper changes and showers -

Rachel Callahan - The victim

The pinnacle of the scheme

  • Most refined version of "Kat"
  • The most sophisticated prey
  • The boldest plot - takes the show on the road

The Things You Know

The Psychology

  • Gives the defendant all the tools she needs to prey on her victims
  • Gives her the awareness to have stopped her behavior

The austim

  • Not about loneliness
  • Makes sure no one asks question
  • Guaranteed to provide for contact with the genitals

The Things You Know

She deliberately selected her victims

  • Vulnerable population
  • Younger, immature victims -- until she got greedy

She knows she's guilty

  • Asking about jail food/conditions
  • She deleted her account days after Callahan said she was going to the police
  • "I don't know what to say" - Won't ay she did it

The Things You Can Deduce

Of course it was sexual

  • Why ask for diaper cream
  • Why risk people seeing your tattoos and piercings - Why risk the questions
  • Why ask for the underwear and diaper checks

Everything was for the contact with her genitals

The Things You Can Deduce

If she admits that it was sexual with Alice Hale, why woudn't it be with everyone else?

She was presumed innocent - NOT HONEST

  • No one else gains anything
  • She revealed herself on the stand - manipulative, calculating, a liar

The word she chose to use: FANTASY

  • It's a word used for wants, not needs
  • Connected to erotic desires
  • Look at the foreplay in the text messages and emails

The Things You Can Deduce

The masturbation was described the same way by everyone

She said it was about needs -

Drug addicts have needs too

She let people touch her without gloves

  • She didn't answer the question
  • That was her ultimate pleasure

The Damage Done

To the community of people with special needs

  • Mocked and ridiculed
  • Used as a plot device in her twisted story

To the people who dedicate themselves to their care

  • Who now question their professional and personal judment
  • Some have left the field alltogether

Let her go and you have only

taught her how to do it

better and not get caught

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