MADDESYN GEORGE KILLED HER ALLEGED RAPIST. PROSECUTORS BLOCKED HER SELF-DEFENSE CLAIMS – By Victoria Law (The Intercept) / Oct 8 2021
Federal prosecutors threw the book at George, a member of the Colville tribes, who didn’t fit the narrative of a “perfect victim.”
NO ONE DISPUTES that, on July 12, 2020, Maddesyn George shot and killed Kristopher “Buddy” Graber as he reached through the window of the parked car where George was seated. It’s the preceding 24 hours that are at issue in court.
The arguments between George’s defense team and the U.S. attorney’s office raise the question of whether, in 2021, a rape survivor has the right to argue fear for her life and self-defense.
George says that, the previous afternoon when she was at his house, Graber had threatened her with his gun and then raped her with a vibrator. He only stopped his assault after she convinced him that she was hungry and they should eat. Not feeling as if she could leave, she stayed until he fell asleep. When she left, she took his gun; she also took his stash of methamphetamine and several thousand dollars in cash. She later told police that she had decided to take the gun to ensure that he would not be able to threaten her with it again.
George, a Colville tribal member, lives on Washington’s Colville reservation. Graber, a white man, lived in Omak, Washington, about 45 miles northwest of the reservation.
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