Ronald Cotton case - part 2 justice works! — Transcript

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1. 0:00to go with it packed away on the shelves
2. 0:02of the Burlington Police Department was
3. 0:0410 year old evidence from the two rapes
4. 0:07that night inside one of the rape kits
5. 0:10was a fragment of a single sperm with
6. 0:12viable DNA
7. 0:14it proved what Ronald cotton had been
8. 0:16saying all along he was innocent and the
9. 0:20rapist was Bobby Poole
10. 0:24within days Ronald cotton was back in
11. 0:28court we were walking out here today is
12. 0:30free man this time to be released
13. 0:35so not only do you find out that Ron
14. 0:38didn't do the crime you find out Bobby
15. 0:40Poole did it was just utter shock really
16. 0:43disbelief I mean
17. 0:46by this time this is 11 years later
18. 0:49and
19. 0:50you know I know that I've been involved
20. 0:54in a case of the man has lost 11 years
21. 0:56of his life and uh
22. 0:58I just I was so sad for him and his
23. 1:01family in the years since Ronald
24. 1:03Cotton's conviction Jennifer had married
25. 1:05and had children are you the one that
26. 1:07tells her yes her reaction no it can't
27. 1:10be true it's not possible you know I
28. 1:13know Ronald cotton raped me there's no
29. 1:15question in my mind it was like someone
30. 1:17had just taken my life and like turned
31. 1:20it upside down she cried oh she cried
32. 1:22she broke down I mean she took it all on
33. 1:25herself
34. 1:26you know the guilt
35. 1:28you know I did this to that man
36. 1:31shame shame terrible shame I was
37. 1:35suffocating
38. 1:36debilitating shame but when she thought
39. 1:40or dreamed about that night it was still
40. 1:42Ronald Cotton's face she saw to get past
41. 1:46it she asked if he would meet with her
42. 1:48at a local church I remember him walking
43. 1:51into the church and I physically could
44. 1:54not stand up she was nervous scared I
45. 1:58started to cry immediately and I looked
46. 2:02at him and I said
47. 2:04Ron if I spent every second of every
48. 2:07minute every hour for the rest of my
49. 2:08life telling you how sorry I am it
50. 2:11wouldn't come close to how my heart
51. 2:12feels
52. 2:13so sorry and Ronald just leaned down he
53. 2:17took my hands oh gosh and he looked at
54. 2:19me he said I forgive you