The Forgotten Victim Summary

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Imagine waking up one normal morning getting ready for work. You get into your car and drive off to your work place. Everything goes well at work with no problems at all. At the end of the day it is time to go to your peaceful home. As soon as you get to your car a random stranger comes up to you and starts beating you with a bat for no apparent reason only because you happened to be there at the same time the stranger was. Your day is ruined, you have to go to the hospital, your family is notified about what happened, and to top it all off your assaulter runs free. More than 20 years later you are a victim of a forgotten crime. It’s bad enough to be the victim of a crime, but the worst kind of case is for the crime to be forgotten and for a person to have received little to no help in the years that followed. The scenario I had just given is almost exact to the one of Fidel Lopez’s story of survival. …show more content…

How he was just an average working man that was a self-employed truck driver who had a wife and beloved children. Lopez went to work one day like any other except this time he had no clue what the end of that day would unwrap. His story is an inspirational one because he “decided long ago that he could consider himself an unfortunate soul” instead he chose to live a normal life. I don’t necessarily agree with his idea of letting life hit you hard without asking any help, but if that’s what gets him through the struggles then he should go for it. The article goes on to say that “Williams, the leader of the mob that set upon him was sentenced to 10 years and served just four, his assault of Lopez reduced to a misdemeanor.” Lopez didn’t have to accept help from anyone, but to let his assaulter to serve 4 years instead of the given 10 years is just

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