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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