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\u00a0\u201cWe refused comment to \u2018The Center for Investigative Reporting\u2019 because it became clear they were not interested in accurately reporting an investigation that occurred in 2016,\u201d Wilder said in an email. \u201cThey produced a story\u00a0with half-truths and a misleading narrative.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Henry Cadle was arrested by our agency in 2017 for custodial sexual battery of a minor and he was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in Florida State Prison.\u201d \u2014 Formerly honorable Polk County Sheriff\u2019s spokesman Scott Wilder throwing away a career\u2019s worth of dignity in one sentence.\u00a0Quoted in Gary White\u2019s astonishing\u00a0Ledger<\/em>\u00a0article about Lakeland\u2019s Taylor Cadle.\u00a0Gary\u2019s article builds\u00a0on Rachel deLeon\u2019s report on Taylor Cadle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office belligerently disbelieved<\/em><\/strong> a 13-year-old Lakeland girl reporting her multiple, very real incest\/rapes by Henry Cadle \u2014 her uncle-turned-adopted father \u2014 in 2016. They charge<\/em><\/strong>d her with fabricating her own very real incest rapes. They hauled<\/em><\/strong> her in front of a judge and forced her to apologize in writing<\/em><\/strong> to her incest rapist. Then they sent her right back<\/em><\/strong> to her incest rapist to be incest-raped again. The girl documented on her phone<\/em><\/strong> her own incest rape as it happened<\/em><\/strong> by side of the road in 2017 in an unbelievable act of composure and courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Look this passage that follows in the eye. Note the bold, although it\u2019s all bold, really. And think about this<\/em><\/strong> the next time Grady Judd does his fake country minstrel show about protecting kids and tries to sell you a stupid signed cowboy hat at your Leadership Lakeland or Leadership Polk or Rotary or Kiwanis meeting. (You\u2019ll all still line up for the selfies and cowboy hats anyway, which is pathetic.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Cadle parked near the junction of Rockridge Road and Deen Still Road in North Lakeland and left the truck, Taylor took a quick photo of the radio\u2019s clock. She recorded a video snippet of Cadle walking outside the truck. As her father ordered her to lie with her head on the center console, Taylor surreptitiously snapped photos while Cadle exposed himself.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A quick glance confirmed that Taylor had captured at least one incriminating image. Cadle barked at her to put the phone away, and she said she was just closing some apps. She worried that if Cadle realized she had taken photos, he would discard her phone and she would lose the evidence she needed and she would be \u201ctrapped in a house with a monster until I was 18.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Taylor, who weighed about 80 pounds, considered trying to fight off the 200-pound Cadle, but a thought occurred to her: \u201cI told myself, in my mind, basically, \u2018If I’m going to get this evidence to somebody, I have to be alive for it.\u2019 So I let it go \u2014 just kind of sat there and held it in.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Taylor Cadle then risked more arrest and prosecution to report her incest rapist to same detectives who forced all this on her with their brutality and incompetence. Note the bold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Cadle\u2019s truck arrived at their isolated home, Taylor volunteered to walk the family\u2019s two dogs \u2014 not a task she normally performed \u2014 so that she could be alone with her phone. She confirmed that she had captured images that would incriminate Cadle.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n She prepared to call 911.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo I walked the dogs, and basically, in my mind, I was like, \u2018I’m not going to do this. I’m not going to do this. If I do this, they’re not going to believe me again,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI had probably a 5-, 10-minute conversation with myself, whether or not I was going to do this. I finally worked up the courage to do it,<\/em><\/strong> because I knew once I dialed it and clicked \u2018call,\u2019 there was no going back at that point. And again \u2014 now or never.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only by enduring all that, <\/em><\/strong>and acting with super human self-possession and courage,could young teen Taylor Cadle earn the right to be free of her incest rapist father Henry Cadle, her prosecutor Jerry Hill\u00b9, and her \u201csheriff\u201d Grady Judd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And even that<\/em><\/strong> can\u2019t earn basic public respect and decency and contrition from Grady Judd today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grady Judd\u2019s official position on Taylor Cadle: \u201cThey produced a story with half-truths and a misleading narrative.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Judd\u2019s office does not dispute a single specific fact, document, taped interrogation excerpt, or word uttered by Taylor Cadle or Rachel deLeon. The documented record is incontrovertible.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And yet<\/em><\/strong> Grady Judd\u2019s office is still<\/em><\/strong> accusing Taylor Cadle of \u201chalf\u201d lying <\/em><\/strong>in its official statements. This is dark, dark, dark and disgusting public statement from Grady\u2019s formerly honorable spokesman Scott Wilder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe refused comment to \u2018The Center for Investigative Reporting\u2019 because it became clear they were not interested in accurately reporting an investigation that occurred in 2016,\u201d Wilder said in an email. \u201cThey produced a story with half-truths and a misleading narrative.<\/em><\/strong> Henry Cadle was arrested by our agency in 2017 for custodial sexual battery of a minor and he was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in Florida State Prison.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What are the half-lies, Scott? Name one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s get specific, Scott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Identify a specific half-lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is it a half-lie that Cadle\u2019s adopted father ordered her to prepare for the incest rape that your agency caused<\/em><\/strong> by putting her headon the center console? Or was it maybe the driver\u2019s seat instead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this a half-lie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n As her father ordered her to lie with her head on the center console, Taylor surreptitiously snapped photos while Cadle exposed himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this a half-lie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NewsHour story included audio of [Det. Melissa] Turnage interviewing Taylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you’re mad because you got your phone taken away, let\u2019s say that now and be done with it,\u201d Turnage said in a flat tone. \u201cDo you want to go live back in foster care? Because more than likely, if he’s arrested, they’re not going to let you stay there. But if it’s not the truth, you’re fixing to hurt a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this a half-lie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the beginning, Taylor said, Turnage spoke to her as if she were an adult, showing no compassion or sensitivity to her allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe looked me in my face numerous times and told me I was lying, that there was no evidence, that they couldn’t find anything, that I was going to go back to foster care, that I was turning everybody’s world upside down,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cShe never once listened to me, and from the moment that I met her to the last time I had ever spoken with her, she was rude. She spoke to me like I was an adult. There was never a time where she tried to be gentle, tried to see things from my eyes, or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is it a half-lie that Melissa Turnage still works at your agency, but that you\u2019re dragging your feet in providing her personnel file to Gary White? I want it, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I have a personal suspicion, knowing how Grady rolls, that no<\/em><\/strong> disciplinary or corrective action, or training, or personal reflection of any kind has ever<\/em><\/strong> occurred as a result of this ongoing<\/em><\/strong> comprehensive atrocity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I don\u2019t know<\/em><\/strong> that. To say otherwise would be a half-lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t traffic in half-lies; so hopefully Scott, if you have a shred anything left that once made you Scott, you\u2019ll show us the disciplinary or corrective action, or training, or personal reflection of any kind that occurred as a result of this comprehensive atrocity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n The date of Taylor Cadle\u2019s prosecution in 2016 makes it likely, but not certain, that Jerry Hill was State Attorney when she was forced into court. 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