One after another, three women who accused Darrell Tillery of sexually abusing them when they were girls spoke in a Jefferson Parish courtroom Tuesday of their struggles to overcome the lingering effects of being child rape victims. They spoke of lost childhoods and innocence, of troubling behavior and of the inescapable but hidden knowledge of how different they were from their peers. And they spoke of determination to move forward with their lives.
"I'm glad his dark, evil deeds are exposed, and everyone knows who he is now," one of the women testified.