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Child rapist leaves another state DEMING. N M (AP) — After neighbors rallied in protest and an arson fire destroyed his home last week, convicted child rapist Joseph Gallardo fled Wash ington state Gallardo came lo this farming community of 12.000 in southwestern New Mexico hoping to learn a trade and find counseling, his brother Pierre Gallardo said. Hut Doming residents, many of whom were still upset over a teacher's child molestation convic tion earlier this year, made it very clear that Joseph Gallardo was not welcome. Gallardo and his brother left Doming about 12:.10 am. Sunday, ahead of a crowd of about 100 who marched on Pierre Gallardo's rental home lat er that morning. Protesters marched from on elementary school to the home carrying placards rending "Washing ton Doesn’t Want You. Neither Does Doming.” "We Are Protecting Our Kids” and "Gallardo Go Home." The group found police surrounding the resi dence and Doming Police Chief Michael Carillo waiting to deliver a message "They are not at the residence.” Clarillo said "I do not know where they went." Pierre Gallardo. 50, a merchant and Unitarian minister, told KING-TV in Seattle that he and Ins brother were leaving Denting for good, hut didn't say where they were bound Joseph Gallardo arrived in Denting last Wednes day from Lynnwood. Wash . after being released Irani Twin Rivers Corrections Center in Monroe. He had served two years and It) months of a four year sentence for first-degree statutory rape of a 10-year-old girl The Snohomish County Sheriffs Office distrib utod fliers in Gallardo''! Lynnwood neighborhood warning of his release and calling him "an extremely dangerous untreated sex offender with a very high probability for re-offense (•arillo said he had been bombarded with phone calls from residents since Gallardo arrived in Dom ing last week ('arillo said Pierre Gallardo called him at home Saturday night and expressed concern about slav ing in Doming, "We discussed the situation here," ('.arillo said "1 told him the community did not want him (Joseph (iallardo) to remain here and said it would be very difficult for him here "lie (Pierre) was very concerned about the com munity. It was a difficult dm ision to make, but he felt it was Irnst if they leave." Carillo said Pierre Gallardo said he and his brother would not be coming hack to Doming, but the house will be watched, Carillo said, Carillo and District Attorney Anthony White had an impromptu town meeting with protesters in the local civil i enter Sunday "It was a very , very good meeting as far as the community was com erned," Carillo sail) "They asked a lot of questions "They wanted to know why the system allowed him to serve so little time, why he was allowed to he released under unsupervised conditions and what they could do if fie returned to Doming." Carillo said a ( ommittee w ill lie formed to lobby legislators for a sex offender registry in Now Mex ico In Washington state. Gallardo was required In law to register with Dm .a I authorities as a t unvot ed sex offender Zolia Sapien, an organizer of the man h Sunday, said Doming residents would not feel i ompletely safe until they knew where Gallardo had gone Torture inspires center for victims (AF) — A nun's pain and suf fering under torture in Central America has inspired an Oregon woman to open a center to help torture survivors heal their wounds and spirits Gordie Albi. founder of Friends of the Survivors, is a f>5 vear-old management consultant who has long been active with the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission in the United States Albi decided to organize the i enter after a visit with an old friend, a U S. nun named Sister Dianna who could not ret all her life before she (cocaine a torture victim. The nun was kidnapped two years after Albi lived with her during a stay in Guatemala in 1<)H7 Government security fon t's acting as a death squad were alleged to bo the kidnap pers. Before her escape. Sister Dian na suffered sexual assaults, Iteat ings, extensive burns and was placed in a rat-infested pit filled with dead bodies Albi met her at a human rights conference last fall and was shocked to find the nun could not remember her life Itefore her ordeal She told Albi she wanted to know everything that Albi i mild re< all about her. sin It as. "Was I dedicated' How was I with the children'" Helping Albi establish the Kugene i enter, i ailed Amigos de 108 Nohrevivientes in Spanish, is Dr Antonio Martinez, of the Marjorie kovler Center for tor ture victims in Chicago Martinez s.ivs an estimated two million victims have fled an "international epidemit " of tor tore to come to the United States, which has only n handful of treatment centers The Chit axo center has treat ed more than 7.000 victims of torture front :tr> countries, said Martinez, a psyt hologist Organizers of the Kugene t en ter are enlisting medical and legal experts to help survivors recover so they can find a job or resume their careers. "Right now we're seeing « lot of refugees who not only want to find a way to make a living hut also u way to get rid of night mares.” said Mugduleno Rose Avila of Amnesty International, the worldwide organization that monitors human rights abuses. 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