Robin Abcarian: A rape survivor gets her day in court
Cathie L. was understandably emotional as she addressed the court.
Dressed in black leggings and a loose black shirt, with her long gray hair pulled into a fashionably messy bun atop her head, she wept while cataloging the many ways the rape had changed her.
Almost four years ago, just before daybreak, Cathie was awakened in her Santa Monica bedroom by a stranger holding a knife.
High on meth, Dylan James Jensen, then 41, had crawled onto Cathie's elevated balcony, removed her screen door and lifted off its track her sliding glass door, secured by a bolt that only opened six inches. After he stabbed her mattress,
