Alleged abusers often allege the word “consensual” when referring to “what happened.”
Our story is not unique, sadly.
When victims of abuse begin to finally understand what happened to them, and begin to peel back the many layers of the grooming, manipulation, and perversion masterfully used by a sexual predator, many decide to speak out. The timeline in which this happens varies from person to person. Some are filled with so much shame they are too afraid to ever speak out, while others realize if they don’t the same cycles of abuse could happen to other innocent women.
Regardless of why, how, when, or if a victim ever decides to speak, they ARE victims none the less.
The word “consensual” has been used by so many predators in sexual assault/clergy abuse cases we have read about. It was used in our case by Richard and Sonia Galvan, who then decided in their depositions (years after they filed their lawsuit) to take it a step further by blaming the victim for the assault happening. All of this after they filed a frivolous and malicious lawsuit against us for defamation (by stating it was all false). Only after they were so cornered from the lies that they told did they change their story, which they described the assault as a “consensual personal relationship”.
The truth is simple. Richard Galvan is a rapist, a sexual deviant, a groomer, a manipulator, a thief, a liar, and a man who used the Gospel and Christianity to gain access to young women to take their innocence. We have proof of this. His wife Sonia Galvan is fully aware of his actions, and has decided to go down with the ship…. and going down it is.
No matter how much they would love to become the victims in this story, this is what almost every predator who gets caught does. Their narcissistic ego-filled pride comes before their own innocent family members and friends. In fact predators will often use their own children as a shield against the truth to gain sympathy from others after they’ve been exposed for who they are. This is what The Galvan’s have done, and have continued to do.
Richard and Sonia- you are not the victims. You never will be. Truth will win.
