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Analysis Of Beau Donaldson's Tolerance For The Rape Of Allison Huguet

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Krakauer's part four, Scale of Justice, unfolded the determination of Beau Donaldson’s sentence for the rape of Allison Huguet. Chapters seventeen through twenty all took place within the courtroom where the Beau’s sentence was made and Huguet’ justice was upheld. Krakauer described the delayed hearing which eventually took place on the morning of January 11, 2013.

Judge Karen Townsend was the ultimate voice during this hearing who eventually after heard many opinions on the case, determined that Donaldson was in fact guilty for the rape of Allison and was sentenced with thirty years, with twenty of those years suspended. Donaldson was also required to undergo therapy in both alcohol and sex-offender treatment.

Before the sentence was finalized, witnesses from both Donaldson’s side and Huguet’ side took the stand to be questioned. During the questioning process, Hillary McLaughlin, another one of Donaldson’s victims, decided to testify. Though she didn’t want to be placed back into the situation again she knew it was the right thing to be done. As person after person was brought up and asked a numerous questions, Donaldson was shown to be nothing but a liar during the entire case. Before the hearing three different psychologists was ordered to execute a psychosexual evaluation on Donaldson. When …show more content…

Those lies that Donaldson told resulted in many accoutrements of harassment Huguet experienced. The entire part four was made to simply enlighten the readers of different people’s point of views on the situation at the time. Some opinions were questioned by the Judge which ended up resulting in reversal of some beliefs. Those who switched their thinking process all were Donaldson’s witnesses of course. After acknowledging some information given to those witnesses was in fact false, Donaldson had dug a hole that would have been extremely hard to get out

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