Episode 3: #FreeCain

De: Jenn Brown, Francey Hakes

Narrado por: Francey Hakes, Jenn Brown

After Cain Valasquez’s son revealed to him that Harry Goularte sexually abused him at Patty’s day care, Velasquez and Michelle called police and were relieved when Goularte was arrested and charged. They told their son that Goularte couldn’t hurt him anymore. But hours later, a judge released Goularte without bond and nobody told the Velasquez family. In what police say was a vigilante act, Velasquez then chased a car with Goularte inside, ran it off the road, and fired several shots into it. Velasquez was arrested shortly afterward. This was when the MMA and local community learned about the child abuse allegations against Goularte and the history of violations at his mother’s day care.©2022 Audible Originals, LLC (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC

Almost Unbearable Slant

I'm a few episodes into this, and as a former journalism student, I find the bias here almost unbearable. It's a fascinating subject, but this series is clearly sympathetic to Cain, and as much as it claims it won't, it heavily presumes the guilt of the alleged sex offender. The first episode is comprised entirely of Cain's buddies standing up for him. I'm an MMA fan, but the opinions of the sports' athletes tends to be an echo chamber of idiocy. No one thus far has taken the position that it's extremely bad and indefensible to chase someone down and shoot into their car on a crowded city street. I assume that position will be taken by someone at some point, but it'll come far too late.

The prosecutor lady who is the co-host is unlistenable. Tell me more about how Georgia's justice system is leaps and bounds above California's, please. I'm really all ears on that one. She's got a bone to pick with bail reform, and the show the does nothing to counter her points. Nobody ever bothers to get the judge's opinion on why he released the alleged abuser with an ankle monitor before trial. Nobody even cares to seriously speculate on his reasoning.

California has had it's share of unfortunate child abuse scandals that turned out to be bogus (see the infamous McMartin trial), but nobody ever questions the validity of the charges leveled here? Really? it may turn out the accusations are completely true, but everyone involved with this production seems to assume they are. I'm a father of two. I get the fury. But it's a journalist's job to ignore those feelings and present facts.