A girl sexually abused by a family member for four years beginning when she was 8 years old grew up to be a cop and two years ago sat down with him in a Granbury park to discuss what he’d done to her all those years earlier.
She recorded the conversation and that recording was a key piece of evidence in the trial that resulted in Erlis Chaisson being sentenced to life in prison. The Daily Beast interviewed the woman he victimized. Make sure you’ve fully digested your lunch before reading Chaisson’s defense of what he did:
“He was talking like he was talking to his best friend,” she said. “Six times, he confessed—in the first hour and a half of that recording.”
Chaisson repeatedly implicated himself, telling Hannah, “I always stopped myself before I went too far,” and “It takes two.”
He also repeatedly blamed Hannah for what he did.
“You need to control your curiosity. I wasn’t supposed to be the friend you played nasty with,” Chaisson said.
“I’d be laying on the couch and then you got that look in your eyes,” Chaisson said. “I’d pull the covers up and you’d come run in and jump under there and back up all the way to me.
“In the mornings, cuddle up to you, scratch your back… I shouldn’t have put myself in those positions.” Chaisson, who was in his thirties and working as a contractor at the time of the abuse, added, “I mean, anybody would have got confused.”
