“Witness 9” accused Zimmerman of sexually molesting her
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/16/2897557/zimmerman-defense-attorney-will.html
“witness 9,” 26, called investigators several days after the shooting of Trayvon Martin to say that Zimmerman and his family were racists who disliked blacks. She also called the Seminole County state attorney about
three weeks later with more-serious allegations:
1. When she was 6 - The children would hang out on sofas under blankets watching TV, and Zimmerman, she claims, would take the opportunity to fondle her and penetrate her with his fingers, even though there were other people in the room.
2. Every time the families visited, Zimmerman would grope her behind curtains and touch her inappropriately.
3. Once, when she was about 12, he allegedly made her rub his penis.
4. When she was 16 - he lay down next to her with an erection and began kissing her and rubbing her chest, but she got up and ran out. He chased her as far as the front door but no further.
5. When she was 20, she told her sister, and her sister told their parents.
Her parents had a meeting with Zimmerman at a restaurant. “He sat down at the end of the booth, said, ‘I’m sorry,’ and got up and walked out,” After that, Zimmerman was never invited to joint family functions.
Kaosium, I agree that when she was 6 and he was 8 they were both children. George was probably exploring, may have seen a porno and was curious or something.
At the age of 12 for her and 14 for him that is another matter. Twelve year olds regularly babysit younger children. There is no way they both didn't know what was going on. Now it could have been kissing cousins behaving badly, but according to her he made her do things she didn't want to do.
Then at ages 16 and 18 it finally ends after she runs for it.
One thing that gives Witness 9 credibility is that she brought other witnesses into it. She mentions her sister and parents. The whole family would be witnesses to GZ no longer being invited to family functions. That is a lot of people who would be able to vouch that this is not a new story from Witness 9. It is true that no one but Witness 9 and GZ really knows what happened between them.
If GZ's character is brought up in the trial she could be called as a witness. I would imagine her family could be called to corroborate her story at that point.
Do we use this information to judge GZ in relation to the TM case? There are character traits that are important to the conversation. If he forced his cousin into sexual situations she wasn't okay with he would need to hide it from the adults around them. He would present one face to the public of the family and another to his cousin. It would show he is deceptive.
We still don't know how the confrontation with TM began. According to GZ, TM was suddenly there. According to DeeDee GZ was following TM.
Witness 9 is yet another clue on how trustworthy GZ's version of what happened is.