A 13-year-old used a ‘Help Me!’ sign to escape after being abducted. A Texas man has now pleaded guilty to kidnapping | CNN
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A Texas man who kidnapped a 13-year-old girl in San Antonio and sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving her to Southern California last year pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge Friday as part of a plea agreement, the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said.

A Texas man who kidnapped a 13-year-old girl in San Antonio and sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving her to Southern California last year pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge Friday as part of a plea agreement, the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said.

Steven Robert Sablan, 62, abducted the girl at gunpoint on or about July 6, 2023, in San Antonio and “engaged in sexual activity” with her while driving her to Long Beach, California, the plea agreement states.

“At the time of the crime, Sablan had no legal custody or familial relationship to the victim,” the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a news release.

  • Doug Holland@lemmy.world
    71·
    10 months ago

    Repeating “but were they a drag queen” in our little echo chambers is surely cathartic

    Full stop. It’s cathartic, does no harm, adds a momentary smile to my otherwise dreary, humdrum, frustrating life. Bring on the drag queens, please!

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Respectfully disagree. It’s always been more frustrating than cathartic, but maybe if we keep repeating it enough times, just a few people might get the point. I don’t think it’ll happen often, but that crazy-ass worldview is fragile, being based mostly on lies. If you can break one of their beliefs, you might slowly shatter the whole thing.

      Sometimes you’ve just gotta keep drumming a point until it hits home. Yeah, for 90% of people it will make absolutely no difference. Either they’re already convinced, or there’s absolutely nothing that will change their mind. But there’s a possibility to make a huge difference for a few.