Woman seeks justice, urges self defense training
It was early in the evening on a weeknight in April and Peggy Kandies was in a friend’s home in Sunrise Mobile Home Park, her cell phone in hand, trying to sort through a family tragedy.
Alone in the small mobile home, she felt safe enough; she had been there many times and knew a lot of the people in the park. In fact, her friend, Wesley Smith had just taken a neighbor to the store before going ahead to a pool tournament he was playing in Goose Creek.
Kandies heard a soft knock at the door.
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Woman outraged attacker already up for parole
Posted: Aug 15, 2011 12:49 PM PDT
Updated: Aug 16, 2011 4:38 AM PDT
A woman who was beaten while fighting off a would-be rapist is fighting again to keep her attacker behind bars.
Peggy Kandies was staying at a friend's trailer at the Sunrise Mobile Home Park on Red Bank Road when the man who lived next door targeted her. Kandies said she had no warning when 30-year-old Frederico Reyes burst through the door.
"He literally jumped on me when he came through the door," Kandies recalled. "He physically tried to rape me and while he was on top of me, he bit my mouth."
Parole denied for man convicted of attacking woman
Posted: Sep 14, 2011 4:36 PM PDT
Updated: Sep 14, 2011 6:06 PM PDT
Reyes is set to get out in December of 2012. Kandies says she is working to make sure he won't be eligible for parole again.
