that night, James handcuffed
their wrists together.
	Kara testified that the next morning, James, Kara, and J.L. returned to Kara's
mother's house in Williamson County, where James again forced Kara to engage in sexual
intercourse with him.  Kara testified that James forced her to write a letter conveying custody of J.L.
to James; James then took Kara to a notary public, where Kara signed the letter in front of the notary. 
James then returned Kara to her mother's house, and ordered Kara to remain quiet about the events
that had just occurred; he then left with J.L.
	After James left, Kara told her mother what had happened; Kara's mother then called
the Leander Police Department.  Leander police obtained an arrest warrant for James and a search
warrant for his Travis County apartment.  On thethe only positive being its time and location. Given the magnitude of the disaster, the death toll and number of injuries have remained relatively low. The quake struck in the middle of the day with its epicenter in a rural mountain location comprised largely of farmers. So when the earthquake occurred, people weren’t in their homes. They were out in their fields, working, witnessing the destruction from a distance, as houses fell, structures crumbled, and their beautiful stepped farms decorated with stone walls and centuries of history collapsed. Had the quake occurred in the middle of the night, while families slept in their homes, or had its epicenter been in an urban center, like that of Haiti in 2010, the death toll and injuries would likely be significantly