Family members and friends took the stand to say they would support Walker both financially and with their time should he be allowed to remain in the community.

Walker also took the stand to say that he would abide by whatever rules are placed on him. When asked if he had support of family and friends, he told his attorney to “look behind you. Anyone there will support me.”

Several people in the crowd shouted “Amen.”

Ravalli County Attorney Bill Fulbright acknowledged that people have been willing to support Walker all along, but no one was interested in protecting the victims in this case.

In the older victim’s statement, Fulbright said she talked about “having to live with this, having to live through it and believing it was her fault…There was nobody to tell and if she did tell, it meant she was the one at fault. She avoided it for years, buried it for years. She certainly did not want to be here testifying.”

When the younger girl told what happened to her, Fulbright said her own mother told a deputy that the victim was a liar in order to protect Walker.

At that point, someone from the crowd yelled out: “Maybe there is a reason for that.”