Julie Hosler
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Julie Hosler (born c. 1972) is a woman from Delaware, Ohio who became infamous for being convicted, along with her mother and sister, of raping her husband Rodney with a cucumber.
Hosler's mother-in-law, Mary Franks, claimed she found out in 1997 that Rodney Hosler was french kissing his five year-old daughter. Under Ohio law, however, this does not constitute sexual abuse. Shocked and angered by what she found out, Franks told her daughter about the French kissing going on between her son-in-law and her grand-daughter.
Police reports say that Julie, her mother Mary and Julie's sister Vickie next set to take justice in their own hands. The three women tied Rodney Hosler up, stripped him, brutalized him and shaved his hair before putting a cucumber inside his anus. They then drove to McComb, where they left him outside a pizza parlor.
The three women were arrested and gained national attention. They were charged with rape, torture, attempted murder and kidnapping, but were only convicted of rape and sentenced to four months in jail.
The verdict drew mixed public reactions. While some thought that the short time given to them was an injustice and they were given special consideration because they were women, others hailed them as heroes who shouldn't have been convicted because they were trying to protect the five year old girl.
The two children that the Hosler family had were removed from their homes by social services and given to foster families.
An independent documentary about the crime, The Cucumber Incident, was released in 2002. On July 26, 2004, The Sundance Channel released the documentary in the United States.
