By RON MEXICOThe Paz Files
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Genoveva Herrera says she doesn't have a hateful bone in her 56-year-old body, but she's quick to add that nothing gets her goat like knowing someone has hurt one of her kids. The local seamstress wants writer Rudolf Von Bulow to pay the heaviest price for raping her daughter, Louise.
"Someone came around and offered to re-roof my house and get me a new washer/dryer and a bigger refrigerator than the one we have if we would drop charges against that barbarian," she tells me during an afternoon interview outside her home in the town's Southmost subdivision. "Louise says he was mean to her, that he was crude and that he hurt her."
Von Bulow is alleged to have assaulted the 23-year old college student during a recent weekend on nearby South Padre Island following a long night of partying at several island nightclubs. Louise Herrera has said she did not engage in consensual sex, although Von Bulow is saying the opposite, that the young Hispanic beauty dressed in tight blue jeans and wore a halter top that served her intent - to entice him into a compromising position.
Island police have said little about the incident and Von Bulow has hired a team of lawyers to defend him in court. But, already, rumors have surfaced that the Von Bulow family is willing to negotiate a financial settlement in exchange for the dropping of all charges.
"That's not happening," said a stoic Genoveva Herrera. "My daughter is not a prostitute. He wants to pay us for raping her? Is that a Nazi thing, or what?"
Von Bulow's ancestry is German and several members of his family served Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party ahead of, and during, World War II. Rudolf Von Bulow says that is not relevant in 2011 Brownsville, that to play the Hitler Card is a joke he will not join in laughter.
Louise Herrera is back at Texas Southmost College where she is completing an associate's degree in Paleontology. Asked if Louise would grant an interview, Genoveva Herrera said her daughter will speak about the alleged attack, but only from the witness stand in court.
"Will you change your mind if Von Bulow offers you $1 million?" she was asked near the end of the interview.
"No," she said, quickly and tersely.
And then she glanced back to her humble home, toward the leaky roof that needs repair, to the broken windows facing the unpaved street, to the rusting screen on her front door, to the weeds in her front yard, to the battered mailbox...before saying: "He's wanting to say my daughter is just a piece of ass, isn't he? Well, we're poor in this neighborhood, but we're proud. Mr. Von Bulow can take his money and shove it youknowwhere."
Her face grows red with anger, and it is the wailing of a baby inside the home that forces her to retreat. The final scene leaves this reporter with the impression that this particular retreat is one she'll allow - not any other.
Rudolf Von Bulow, the suave, sophisticated world-traveler, is in for a fight...
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12 comments:
$2.500 dollars and Louise Herrera will settle. I know she will, VonBulow is offering too much. She was asking for it, drinking, dressing exotically, yes,she was asking for a good lay.
For a million, I'd want a repeat performance. Maybe three
Von should investigate this woman. If she's from Brownmsville she has a past, a bad one I bet.
I'll throw in $5 for Montoya's kids. Send it where? No child should be without his father on Christmas Day and no child should suffer the consequences of marriages gone wrong. Man up, Juan!
Mr.Editor, I understand someone was having a collection for Juan Montoya, I am still good for $25.00 for the Christmas fund.
Louise mother look's white, Louise was dark complected, so does that mean, her mom, brinca la cerca?? Just wondering.
VonBulow did what any man would have done.
Louise Herrrea is half-white, half black.. that's what I say. that mix is just too damned sexy. Von Bulow was mersmerized. Can't wait for the trial!!!
I think any red blodded man would have gone after that Louise, she is nice up front, curious about the other end.
VonBulow, you lucky bastard, tell us about that piece.
What a bunch of sick puppies you 3 anonys are. You would have done the same thing as Von Bulow? Perhaps you'd like to share his cell? Would it be okay if he drugged your daughter and raped her just because of the way she looked?
Dogs! valley me are dogs. Louise didn't ask for it! Von Bulow needs to pay.
Why would any woman accept a ride with a man, just because he wears a cheap Rolex and a three piece suit. Louise is a flake, a dumb flake, a low class flake.
We need to hear VonBulow side, I will give the mother $1.000 and she can roof the old house herself, Louise, brink me another drink and undress quickly.
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