In three pages this work is reviewed along with a discussion of the author's view presented concerning the legal case of abduction and incest. There are no other sources listed.
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in reading events, this trial appears to be quite complex and indicative of the mores of nineteenth century America. When Louis Orleman who was in the army was accused
of incest, his defense involved pointing to his own accuser, Captain Andrew Geddes, of planning to take his daughter away. In fact, the case would evolve around this one girl,
Orlemans daughter Lillie, and while the author supports the assumption that indeed Orleman was a child molester, Geddes is the one who gets the brunt of the law in this
case that is as interesting as it is salacious. The author seems to relay that the people were on the side of Orleman to some extent and refused
to believe the reality that he was indeed a sexual deviant. This is perhaps due to the times. Today, people are more likely than not to believe that a child
has been sexually assaulted. Decades ago, such things were swept under the rug along with alcoholism and drug addiction. Today, all is out in the open and statistics reveal that
incest and sexual abuse is more prevalent than many had once believed. At the tail end of the 1800s, there were few who wanted to believe that this military man
would do something so heinous. While the work does involve the topic of incest, it also includes a great deal of racial material as the work is set in Texas
in a region where there were a variety of races inclusive of Mexicans and Native Americans. Although there are undertones of racism in the work, the primary theme goes to
gender. Here, a teenage girl is the subject of a trial that involves sex. No matter who is correct, either Lillie was abused by her own father or seduced by