“Why? Is it because we are Latinos?” he asked, saying that many of the children Joynes abused are Latino.

...One victim’s father spoke before the court, describing the impact on his daughter and family. “The wound he caused us — we will never be cured, definitely,” he said, speaking in Spanish through an interpreter.
The father questioned why victims would have to bear the costs for any problems in Joynes’s childhood.
“Why? Is it because we are Latinos?” he asked, saying that many of the children Joynes abused are Latino.
Hagan also read a written statement from a victim, in which the girl said the abuse made her feel “dirty, messed up” and “not the same as other girls my age.”

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She said she has had a hard time sleeping, which results in headaches, and feels that she must protect her younger brothers and sisters from “something like this happening to them.”
She said she also has a hard time asking for help at school because she feels scared to stay alone with teachers.
“I don’t trust teachers,” she said.
The girl said that she goes to therapy and that her mother blamed herself “for putting me in that school.” She said that when her mother found out about the abuse, she was pregnant and “it made her cry a lot and she didn’t eat much.”
“I still hear her cry,” she said. “It makes everyone in my family very sad.”...

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