Julie Hosler
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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. The story was captured in 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.
The film tells how, after Rodney had served a short prison sentence for molesting his young daughter, he was allowed back in the home, and a short time later Hosler's mother-in-law, Mary Franks, claimed she found out in 1997 that Rodney had french kissed the now eight year-old daughter. 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 granddaughter. Since under Ohio state law this act does not constitute sexual abuse, the women could not have Rodney arrested, so they took it upon themselves to dispense their own brand of justice.
Police reports show that 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.
