Bob Perez Essay

During the years of 1994-1995, Wenatchee Washington, had been known historically for the most extensive child sex abuse investigation. This case was particularly not only extensively long, but later being founded that Bob Perez, a Wenatchee police investigator, was the reason why many were convicted and prisoned. Bob Perez was the reason behind this extensively hurtful case by the desire of greed, proving a lack of empathy, dishonesty, and inconsiderate. Perez was not only known as an abusive police investigator, but an untrustworthy man and authority. While families continued with their responsibilities of raising their children, Perez accused many families of ritual sex abuse. This police investigator was in
search for a sex abuse case, and later desired the greed of not only wanting wealth but power in this long extensive case he’d created. Perez was newly appointed as a sex crime police officer to the Wenatchee Department. This case brought many innocent lives onto the hands of Perez, an officer who had no experience with trials like this one. Which later found it powerful to control the lives of these people. Greed, is a word to be known as wanting and desiring power or wealth. In this situation Perez had the desire to gain power by the advantage of being authority. He interrogated certain people he wanted, those who were disabled and poor, and created such a long case. Since he was authority, no one would suspect that all the false accusations and interrogations would come from a police lieutenant. He was the reason why many innocent adults were sent to prison, and their children being sold to foster homes. Beck added, “Interrogators called some children who denied abuse liars. Children were told that if they agreed to accusations they wouldn’t be separated from parents or siblings. Many of them later recanted. Lieutenant Perez neither recorded nor kept notes of his interrogations” (Katherine Beck). Unfortunately, today we can’t trust anyone. The Wenatchee Police Department Lieutenant, Bob Perez, job was to help those families and search for the right way to solve this case. Instead of proving the innocence of many families, he decided to continue with lies, threats, and false accusations. He saw how the Department of Social and Health Department came to take the children to foster homes. 60 children were sent to foster homes and were separated by their families, and Perez didn’t recognize the feelings and needs of others. This tragedy all began with a seven-year-old girl named Donna Everett, who stated and accused two six-year-old boys for touching her genitals. It was such a long case that not only was in the hands of Perez to resolve, but also became known as the foster father of Everett. As the police station had routine rotation system, Perez was chosen to take care of such trial, but he took advantage of it. He didn’t have any empathy of separating many children from their biological parents, and was cautious of the actions he was committing. Perez watched, accused, and separated mainly poor families in Wenatchee, being new to these types of cases made him commit such a tragedy. Later, the other girls in the Devereux home didn’t back up her story, and the accuser later recanted to her DSHS caseworker, Paul Glassen, saying Perez had pressured and intimidated her (Katherine Beck). By this statement, it’s proved that not only one person declared going through this but as well as others. Perez had no empathy of hurting others physically, mentally, and emotionally. We view and see the authorities with respect and feel safe. But, after the hearing of this case, are we safe and protected by the authorities? The commitment of dishonesty throughout three years by not only a man, but a police lieutenant, came to be the devastation of many families.
And, causing others to be behind bars for accusations that they didn’t commit. Perez not only accused many poor families, but also commented that many families were committing ritual sex abuses to not only their children, but other children in town. Katherine Beck stated, “Sensational allegations included the existence of a group called “The Circle” made up of mothers and fathers trading their children for ritual sex abuse, and black-clad adults in sunglasses holding large scale orgies around Wenatchee. (Katherine Beck). The Wenatchee police department was alarmed to hear such allegations going around town, that many didn’t know of. Such allegations, were started and accused by the police lieutenant, Perez. He was aware that such thing wasn’t going around town, and such dishonesty led to the separation of many families in the town of Wenatchee, Washington. His made-up allegation of ritual sex abuses led to the arrest of 43 adults and who were accused for 29,726 accounts of sexually abusing 60 children ritually. Such an accuse by Perez, brought the whole town to be alarmed, and the department not knowing what to do than leave it the hands of a lieutenant, whom wasn’t
honest. After pressuring, threatening, and intimidating nine to thirteen-year-old children, Perez became an inconsiderate man and authority. Focusing on accusing the poorest families, was the most inconsiderate action a human being could ever commit. Paul Craig Roberts stated, “The few witnesses in the cases, a single mother and two young girls, later recanted in sworn court documents and before TV audiences. The young girls described how they were threatened and beaten, with one apparently suffering a broken arm, by Perez, who used acts of violence to coerce false accusations” (Lawrence M. Stratton). Such actions committed by a police lieutenant is beyond the most inconsiderate thing to do. The act of threatening and beating younger girls is the cruelest thing an authority can do, just to seem the hero of this whole tragedy. Many of children that were interrogated by Perez were threatened to state false accusations towards their biological parents, if they didn’t want to be separated from them. These actions committed by Perez were very inconsiderate because many that were accused were poor families, people with low IQ’s, and disabled people. Therefore, this extensively long During the long and extensive years between 1994-1995, a police lieutenant took the advantage of many innocent adults and children. He hurt them physically, mentally, and emotionally. He threatened nine to thirteen-year-old children by not seeing their families ever again if they didn’t do what they were forced to do. Bob Perez was the reason behind this extensively hurtful case by the desire of greed, proving a lack of empathy, dishonesty, and inconsiderate. Cases like this, affects us as citizens today because it makes us question authority. Are we safe from false accusations and protected by authorities?