article_snippet.sent: Attorneys for two sides agree that in April 1995, a 24-year-old man who had been pointed out by a Southern California college student as Esparza, now the mother of a little girl rapist had his truck rear-ended before his was kidnapped, brutally beaten and killed.
article_snippet.sent: Esparza, now the mother of a little girl's expected to testify Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: The case has drawn international attention since Esparza — who went on to become a psychology professor and moved to France — was arrested in 2012, provoking an outcry from sexual assault victim advocates who say The case sends a chilling message to rape survivors.
article_snippet.sent: Whether Norma Esparza was sexually assaulted or not, for our purposes today, doesn't matter.
article_snippet.sent: Norma Esparza told the defendant that.'
article_snippet.sent: Norma Esparza went on to become a psychology professor in France and the mother of a little girl .
article_snippet.sent: Arrested: In 2012, Norma Esparza was arrested in connection to the slaying when the slaying re-entered the United States for an academic conference .
article_snippet.sent: Esparza, 40, is now the mother of a little girl.
article_snippet.sent: Esparza, here in 2013, claims the mother of a little girl was coerced by Van into pointing out the mother of a little girl rapist in 1995.
highlights_snippet.sent: Norma Esparza, who went on to work as a psychology professor in France, was accused in the murder along with three others .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Esparza, now the mother of a little girl, was expected to testify against Esparza, now the mother of a little girl former boyfriend in a Santa Ana courtroom this month .