A Cry For Justice

by Daniel Cummings, Lena Bates

The story of Daniel Cummings was highlighted and given national exposure 20 years ago on the Geraldo Rivera Show entitled “Spouses of Rape Victims... ” When the heinous crime of rape has been per¬petrated upon a man’s wife, and the culprit has been identified by the victim, and that identity made known to the agents of law enforcement, it is reasonably expected that justice will occur. When the culprit has been positively identified as the rapist of the victim; and those agencies empowered with the authority to arrest the culprit and thereby mete out justice, consciously refuse to perform the duties they have been sworn to uphold, cite their own lack of confidence in the process of the justice system, as the reason they will not perform their sworn-duty; they have by their own inaction, aligned themselves with the rapist and closed the doors to even a resemblance of justice. What does one do, when coming home from a hard day’s work, and finding that your wife has been brutally raped by someone you know? What would you do? What does one do when discovering that a knife and gun was used to force your wife into submission? What would you do? What would you do after thinking that you have done everything that the law dictates a law-abiding citizen to do, and all the right things that a traumatized man and wife could possibly endure by reporting the rape, only to get slapped in the face with endless and contrived humiliation? What would you do? That night I could not sleep, all I could think about was the knife that was put to my wife’s throat, and the gun that was put to her head, and the bloodstains that were on her pants from vaginal hemorrhaging. What would you do? ... I knew that I had to do something.

262 pages, Paperback

Published February 17, 2016

Reviews

[Kelly Paquin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Praise God awesome book

[Linda Huddleston · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Cry For justice reads like an unending drama that magnifies the human spirit. This book is a raw description of what it actually means to live and experience human emotions that inspire and hinder human action and at times coerce these actions, which are at times, best to ignore. The overwhelming moments of learning that his wife was brutally raped is told from a man at the time who was raised to respond in a certain way.
From his upbringing, it had been instilled in Daniel to protect his family the best way he knew possible. When the time came to respond as a citizen and report this brutal crime, Daniel Cummings escorted his wife to the authorities in the state of Pennsylvania as any law abiding adult. The aftermath of this joint decision with his wife, resulting in Daniel Cummings eventually taking the law into his own hands, and this encounter has kept Daniel Cummings in prison for over 40 years.
A Cry for Justice