On Covering the serial rape case
Posted on July 2 at 5:46 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Ted, if by some horrible chance one of your loved ones were attacked, would you print the details of their ordeal in the paper as you did to the victims of Michael Huber. The plea agreement was to avoid having the victims relive the experience, yet on Father's Day of all days you forced us to do just that without notifying any of us as a common courtesy that you would be printing the article or to check the accuracy of your story.
On Police reports shed light on life of Janesville serial rapist
Posted on June 22 at 8:52 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
As one of the victims, I do not appreciate the details (many inaccurate) of my ordeal printed in newspaper with no prior notice. My phone number is still the same as printed on the police reports used to compile this article - a courtesy phone call notifying me that this would be printed would have been nice rather than being blindsided with this on a Monday morning. You get points for selling newspapers, but none for compassion.
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On Covering the serial rape case
Posted on July 6 at 1:35 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Maybe in the future, the Janesville Gazette show some compassion and notify either the victims themselves or the detectives involved in the case that a story of this nature will be printed. The reporter that previously covered this story would notify the detectives, who in turn notified the victims. This story was developed from police reports with no sense of context and contains errors that would easily have been corrected with a simple phone call to validate.
Also, common sense tells us that maybe Father's Day isn't the day to print this type of story with no warning to the victims.