Katie Sabin

[Killroy]

I received this email from someone awhile back, but didn't have anywhere to put it a the time.

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Have any of you heard of Katie Sabin?

http://www.suicide.org/memorials/katie-sabin.html

She was a 16 year old girl who was sexually abused and raped by her father...
her mother knew about it and did nothing. She let it happen and never said
anything. Anyways, Katie was so overwhelmed with the abuse that she commited
suicide. She shot herself in the head with a handgun. This particular story
saddened and upset me immensely. Apparently her father had got her pregnant.
What a waste... such a beautiful girl driven to suicide by such evil and
disgusting abuse. What sort of monster would do this? What sort of mother would
let a man do this to her own child? The rape apparently began when she was 7
years old and happened up until about 2 or 3 months before her suicide. How
absolutely aweful. Please keep this girl in your thoughts. I don't think this
case was covered in the news or anything, but please keep her in your thoughts

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Denise Sabin Questions If Things Could Have Turned Out Differently

By J.D. Wallace, KOLD News 13 Reporter
6/21/05

Fourteen months after her daughter's suicide and with her husband in jail, Denise Sabin admits that she made the wrong decision, but still wonders if she could have saved her daughter's life.

"I was in shock. I felt completely blind-sided by Katie's suicide,” said Katie’s mother, Denise Sabin.

A suicide that led Marana police to discover that 16 year-old Katie Sabin had been molested by her father, Ricky Lee Sabin, since she was eight.

"I believe my daughter did what she did because of the molestation,” Denise Sabin said in regard to what drove Katie to suicide.

Katie told her mother Denise about the molestations six months before the suicide, and said the abuse had stopped. Katie had already been molested by her grandfather when she was seven, and Denise said that Katie did not want to report her father's abuse.

"My daughter was knowledgeable, knew that her father would be prosecuted, and he would go to jail, her family would go through the same things we had experienced in the past,” Denise Sabin said. "When this happened with my own husband, it still makes you, it makes you ill. I don't know what to say. It's not something that, because I experienced it with my own father it was more palatable or accepting the second time around, I didn't.”

Nor did Denise Sabin report her husband's molestation of their daughter, which she admitted as a mistake.

"I'm just a mother who tried to make the best decision at a time when it was very very difficult, and hindsight's always 20/20. It's very easy to second-guess everything,” Sabin said.

One thing Denise Sabin won't second guess is if things would have ended differently if she had reported the abuse.

"Well, that's presuming she wouldn't have killed herself in the end, anyway. Nobody can presume that. I certainly don't after reading her diary and knowing how emotionally damaged she was,” Denise Sabin said. "You can have an overachiever child, a great kid, somebody that just excels and is never a problem, and yet, the side behind the facade can be a very troubled child as well."

Denise Sabin says she will divorce her husband, Ricky Lee Sabin, who is in prison for 37 years without parole. He'll be released when he is almost 80. For her five year probation, Denise cannot have any contact with him, and says that the only reason she kept in contact was to get him to plead guilty instead of dragging everything out in a trial. She must also undergo mental counseling. Upon completion of the probation, her violation will be changed to a misdemeanor.

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Denise Sabin Questions If Things Could Have Turned Out Differently

Nor did Denise Sabin report her husband's molestation of their daughter, which she admitted as a mistake.

"I'm just a mother who tried to make the best decision at a time when it was very very difficult, and hindsight's always 20/20. It's very easy to second-guess everything,” Sabin said.

One thing Denise Sabin won't second guess is if things would have ended differently if she had reported the abuse.

"Well, that's presuming she wouldn't have killed herself in the end, anyway. Nobody can presume that. I certainly don't after reading her diary and knowing how emotionally damaged she was,” Denise Sabin said. "You can have an overachiever child, a great kid, somebody that just excels and is never a problem, and yet, the side behind the facade can be a very troubled child as well."

Denise Sabin says she will divorce her husband, Ricky Lee Sabin, who is in prison for 37 years without parole.

What a heinous bitch. Maybe Katie wouldn't have killed herself if her mother had gotten a clue about eight years earlier and picked her child over the penis.

Denise Saban is trying to excuse her inexcusable behavior and never even addresses Katie's pregnancy. I don't have enough profanity, really, to properly express my profound disgust with her. This article was written in 2005 - did she ever divorce the pedophile who impregnated their child?

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Geeze I hope so.