The article, “Father looks for answers in daughter’s terrifying Federal Way rape” (the Mirror, July 1, 2016) disturbed me on so many levels.

Shame on Federal Way police spokesperson Cathy Schrock for choosing to present this family as she has instead of focusing on the crime. Double shame on her for the personal information she revealed and/or her perception of this father’s relationship with his family and their living situation. Shame also on the Federal Way Mirror for publishing the ridiculous and unnecessary quotes provided by Schrock, for choosing to portray this family as you have and for throwing a little “dirt” into your story.

I ask you to think of any family in which a child has been victimized in such a manner as this young woman, and look for a father who just sits back and does nothing. I hope you don’t find it. This father is attempting to help his daughter the only way he knows how, and as many other fathers would do, trying to solve this problem to help his child feel safe again. Trying to get the word out and prevent this from happening to anyone else. There is nothing wrong with that. It is the most basic and natural instinct a parent has.

It is not our business where the father stays when he comes into town. Who cares about the relationship between family members? I do not. It is not pertinent to this story of a stranger raping a young woman.

Here is what I care about: Who is this monster who raped this child? It sounds like the Federal Way police have some leads. Are there any other description details that can be given to the public? What is currently being done to catch him and prevent this terrible crime from occurring to anyone else’s beautiful child? And please tell me there are some amazing resources, compassion, kindness and protection being provided to this family, most especially to this child who is “Not ready to leave the freakin’ house.” I wouldn’t be ready to leave my house either; I would be terrified.

Federal Way police has had a very busy summer thus far. Despite the father’s assertion, the officers I have met do see past color, see past religion, and see past which part of the neighborhood you live in. I have the utmost confidence in the Federal Way Police Department’s skills and abilities to find and arrest this piece of garbage. My only hope is that solving this terrible crime is as much of a priority to the Federal Way police and to Mayor Jim Ferrell as the other, more publicized crimes that are currently in the forefront of Federal Way news, and that finding and arresting this coward provides the young woman some regained peace and security.

Cathie Rohleder, Federal Way