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UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: We the jury find the defendant, Henry Rayhons, not guilty.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE INTERVIEWER: What was their support like throughout the trial? The stress of what this was like for you.</s>RAYHONS: It was awesome. They were by my side all the time. It was awesome.</s>PINSKY: Back with Anneelise, Judy and Crystal. We are talking about Henry Rayhons, who is found not guilty today of having sexually abuse his wife because she could not consent as a result of her dementia. Joining me on the phone is exclusively is Dale Rayhons. Henry is dale`s father. Henry Rayhons` son here with us. Dale, how is your father doing tonight?</s>DALE RAYHONS, HENRY RAYHONS` SON: A lot better than he has in the last eight, nine months. He is relaxing at home tonight, going to probably get a good first night sleep he has had in a long time.</s>PINSKY: Dale, what do you think this was all about? Just bottom line?</s>DALE RAYHONS: To sort it all out, it is difficult to figure out, you know, if it is a mixed marriage, if it is the Alzheimer`s; if it is, you know, a conflict with the nursing home, if it is with the state. I am not exactly sure. All I know is it culminated into something huge that just wore, you know, having to get picked on bad. And, it was just horrible. It is horrible.</s>PINSKY: What was your reaction when they read the verdict?</s>DALE RAYHONS: It was like you had been holding your breath until you are ready to pass out and you were able to breathe. It just dropped the -- it was like the adrenaline was running 90 miles an hour through your system. And, it is just a different feeling. It just takes your breath away.</s>PINSKY: I want to play a bit of the prosecutor`s closing argument for everybody. Have a look.</s>DALE RAYHONS: OK.</s>SUSAN KRISKO, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL: I bet somebody says, "Oh, but I feel sorry for him. He is 78. You know, he got up there and he loved her." OK. Why does that mean he is not responsible for his own actions? I certainly hope there are not too many other elderly people out there being victimized because if you follow Mr. Yunek`s logic, you have just said, "It is open season."</s>PINSKY: Dale, how do you think the prosecution handled the case?</s>DALE RAYHONS: Throughout the whole thing or just at the end?</s>PINSKY: Well, I will give you a chance to answer both.</s>DALE RAYHONS: For one thing, I do not think the case ever should have been brought up. When the report, the allegation was made, our local police department in Garner and the sheriff`s department -- it is kind of like Joel said. They did not get evidence from dad. They did not go right to his place, collect underwear evidence. To him, that made him feel that even the local police did not feel there was a crime that had been committed.</s>PINSKY: I want to go to -- hang on a second, Dale. I want to go to my panel. Anneelise, to you, the same question. Do you think there were issues here? That logic at the end, I could not follow that closing argument very well. He loved her, therefore, but it did not go anywhere.</s>GOETZ: Dr. Drew, that closing argument was pathetic first of all.</s>PINSKY: OK.</s>GOETZ: What the logic that she went after was essentially to say, `If you do not convict this guy, then people with dementia are at risk.` No! All it means is that you did not do a good job of proving your case. That is like saying to have a murder victim go free, a potential murderer that now it is ok to murder people.</s>PINSKY: Right.</s>GOETZ: The law is still on the book. And, if there actually was a case that met the facts that you needed, where someone was taking advantage of someone, someone did not have the ability to consent and you could actually prove it -- I mean, she could not even prove that they had sex that night.</s>PINSKY: Right.</s>GOETZ: She could not even meet the first test.</s>PINSKY: Right.</s>GOETZ: It is a horrible lack of evidence. To watch this woman go through it, it was a sad state after fairs.</s>PINSKY: And, Dale, I want to put your seatbelt on. I am going to have my friend crystal Wright ask some questions.</s>DALE RAYHONS: OK.</s>PINSKY: if she has any. She felt this was not as -- she was not as sympathetic to your dad as perhaps I was. Go ahead, Crystal.</s>WRIGHT: Dale, my question is, why when your father -- and you can correct me if I am wrong, but I understand there was a meeting with the nursing home staff, your father and Donna Rayhons` daughters, and they said that they told your father that she was not capable of having sex. So, why would your father -- did that register and why would he continue to have sex with her when the doctors said, you know, "We just do not think she knows what is going on with respect to that aspect of her life." That is my question.</s>DALE RAYHONS: OK. To play it back and per testimony in the court, the care center made up that statement after they had concerns raised by the power of attorney or Donna`s daughter. So, it is the care center that actually got all those things put together on the care conference. And, the one daughter had made a secret recording, which we listened to, we just kind of, you know, briefed over it but then probably about a week and a half ago I sat down and listened to the whole thing because it was secretly recorded. And, to me that terms is there is a little bit of intent behind it, why it was secretly recorded. But, to go down through the whole care center conference and they get down to the question, can Donna consent to sex? And, they get to that statement and dad interjects and says, "I think I know what you are going to talk about. It is not a problem." They moved on and never talked about it. They never discussed it. They never told him what that meant.</s>PINSKY: OK. Go ahead, Crystal.</s>WRIGHT: Yes. No, I just going to follow up and say, but the doctor -- I do not know if it was made up. I mean even your father from what I saw when he testified, your father said, he was not quite sure -- he was not really sure of donna is ability to have, you know, to consent is what I thought your father said on the witness stand. Right? So, your father was even unsure about her cognitive ability to agree to sexual activity. And, I guess, my question is, again, you know, the doctor`s testimony in the nursing home, I thought there was a doctor who testified who said that, "Hey! She cannot -- she does not have cognitive ability to agree to sex." So, it just seem like, why pursue it?</s>PINSKY: OK. Guys, we are not going to retry the case right here.</s>WRIGHT: Yes.</s>PINSKY: So, here is what I want to do. I want to the put a stop to this conversation for the moment. I want to release Dale. And, Dale, I want you to at least take back to your dad this thought, will you?</s>DALE RAYHONS: Yes.</s>PINSKY: Thank him from all of us for going through something very unpleasant that will elevate this conversation. He is done a service to a lot of people. Crystal herself had a conversation with her mom about this very issue. This is now a conversation that people will have and he has moved this forward to allow us to help protect people who do not want this.</s>DALE RAYHONS: I totally agree.</s>PINSKY: And, help us deal with people to have more quality of their life should they want to do this sort of thing. Got it?</s>DALE RAYHONS: I totally agree. I just wish it would not have been him.</s>PINSKY: Well, listen. It was what it was and we thank him. OK.</s>DALE RAYHONS: I appreciate that. Thank you.</s>PINSKY: All right. Thank you very much. Next up, how this trial impacts you, what I am talking about here and everybody in the country. And, later, the naked twister mom`s case. Her husband has a response. And, we are back after this.