Wine and Gun

Armalite: When was that?

Witness 7: Probably March 2010.

Armalite: How many children have you kidnapped from 2010 until now?

Witness 7: A dozen or so, plus those filthy children, there are twenty in total, and six children died during these years.

(The defense presented a series of evidence to the jury to prove that Rowan's testimony was true)

Amalette: Who are you helping you with these things?

Witness 7: After I entered Sequoia Manor, I trained several thugs. They were responsible for catching those children, locking them up, and guarding them. Another was Aurelie Delphine, who was in charge of staying at Sequoia Manor and entertaining guests when they arrived.

Armalite: Members and you still have these kinds of parties at Sequoia Manor, right?

Witness 7: Yes, since Slade isn't actually at Sequoia Manor very much, we have no qualms about that. We will pick a time to meet and secretly communicate the news of the meeting to the appropriate members so that they can arrive on time. The day before the party, I would find a reason to dismiss the rest of the manor staff, leaving only Aurelie and my thugs in the manor. And then at the party, the thugs just bring the kids and Aurelie will arrange everything, she's very experienced in these things and she's my right-hand man.

(The defense presented the jury with the testimony of the cleaners who worked at Sequoia Manor)

Amalette: What happened on the day of your arrest on March 31 this year?

Witness 7: This year, a child died. After he was thrown into the river by my people, the police found his body. I heard from some sources that the police and the FBI were investigating the matter, so I wanted to get it out as soon as possible. The children were moved away from the estate on the outskirts. But it would take a lot of money to move them elsewhere, and my money was... tight, so I came up with the Thompson Foundation. A fixed part of the foundation's money is allocated to Sequoia Manor, but with donations from the estate's members, there is always a surplus, and Slade will use that money to participate in charitable projects. In fact, I usually screened him for the charitable projects he participated in, so I thought it would be better to lie to him and say that an orphanage needs donations to rent a new school building, and then defraud him of a sum of money.

Amarette: So you took him to the old orphanage site?

Witness 7: Yes, because the place where we detained the child was originally used as a welfare home, it was easy to fool him. Anyway, as long as he sees with his own eyes that the house of the "welfare home" is really dilapidated, he will wave his hand and let me pay the required funds; Heart, I'm sure I lied to him about this. But I didn't expect that just as I brought him into the yard, the police rushed in. That's all that happened.

Armalite: So Stryder doesn't actually know what you're doing?

Rowan: Yes, he didn't know.

Armalite: I see. (Pauses, looks in the direction of the judge) I have no more questions.

Hardy: Please state your name and occupation.

Technical Witness: Albarino Bacchus, Chief Forensic Officer of Westland's Forensic Bureau.

Hardy: You were in charge of the sixth autopsy in the river dump, didn't you?

Technical Witness: Yes, ma'am.

Hardy: What do you think of this injury found in the autopsy?

(The prosecution showed the jury an autopsy photo: there are many marks left after the body was beaten on the back of the body. The wound was pale in the middle due to blood loss, and there were strips of black and purple blood on both sides)

Technical Witness: This is a typical scar left after being hit by a relatively blunt stick - the blow to the skin pushes the blood from the center of the scar to the sides of the skin, leaving an ischemic pallor traces, and long stripes of damage are formed on both sides. Of course, it is important to note that after enlarging this photo, we can see that there are two small horizontal indentations on the top of the long pale mark in the middle, which indicates that there are two protruding marks on the weapon used to beat the victim. The raised horizontal stripes left additional indentations on the victim's skin.

Hardy: And here's what the police found in Slade's offices at Sequoia Manor, and the forensic lab couldn't extract any fingerprints or DNA from this evidence, but—

(The prosecution presented evidence to the jury: a stainless-steel rod-shaped sculpture with a large, heavy wooden base on which stood a tasteless, gleaming metal that mimicked the shape of male genitalia. Sculpture, there are two raised rib-shaped decorative stripes at the top of the sculpture, which makes the whole ornament look more low-grade and inexplicable)

Hardy: Doctor Bucks, what do you think of this ornament?

Technical Witness: (Sincerely) I just don't want to take a second look at this ugly thing.

(Jury laughter)

Technical Witness: But - well, I'll say it from a professional standpoint: this thing looks a bit like the one used to beat our poor dead in the back.

Chapter 89 Westland v. Kabbah Slade 03

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