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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Someone get Stabler and Benson on the phone.
FORT WORTH, Texas — A father sodomized his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager's alleged rape of the man's 8-year-old daughter, police said.
The father, 32, turned himself into to authorities on Friday and was released from jail Saturday after posting a $17,500 bond. He faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault.
The stepson was arrested Jan. 2 and charged with suspicion of aggravated sexual assault. Police say the father caught him assaulting his daughter, and a subsequent examination at a hospital revealed the girl had been sodomized.
Sgt. Cheryl Johnson, supervisor of the Fort Worth sex crimes unit, said in a story posted Saturday on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Web site that people need to "allow the criminal justice system to work for them."
"This is a very unique case, but we have a criminal justice system in place, and no one can take the law into their own hands," Johnson said.
The Star-Telegram didn't identify the father or the stepson to protect the identity of the girl. Fort Worth police didn't immediately return phone and e-mail messages from The Associated Press.
When the stepson was arrested, the man warned his wife not to get the teenager out of jail. She posted bond for the teen's release. When he called home Jan. 3 after getting released, the father took the call and picked him up, police said.
Instead of taking the teenager home, the Arlington man drove to an abandoned house in Fort Worth, beat his stepson with a baseball bat and sodomized him with a metal tool, police said.
After the man left, the stepson found a pay phone and called police, who searched the abandoned home.
"We did find evidence at the scene to corroborate our victim's story," Johnson said.
A MARTA employee is in jail on pending charges of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl on a bus.
When Jamella Duvall saw a MARTA bus approach her stop on Hollywood Road Dec. 21, she said, it pulled over and let her on like dozens of times before.
She said she had no idea her step onto the bus would lead to a flying leap from the moving vehicle.
Dennis Sims, 48, a bus inspector, was supposed to be transporting the bus from a garage to the H.E. Holmes MARTA station for a bus swap, according to the MARTA police report. He had no authority to pick up passengers.
Sims told police that when he picked up Duvall he told her that the bus was out of service but he was going to the Holmes station and would take her.
Duvall says he never said that. In either case, said MARTA spokeswoman Cara Hodgson, he was "in clear violation" of MARTA policy and "under no circumstances" should have picked up a passenger.
On the bus, the first odd thing Duvall noticed, she said, is that Sims was wearing street clothes. She pulled out her Breeze Card and he said not to worry about the fare. Then, according to the girl's account, he passed stops where people were waiting.
Duvall said she asked why, and Sims said he couldn't pick up everybody. She asked him to stop the bus. He did not answer and instead, the bus sped up, she said. She asked again. And again. Then she looked at him.
He turned around, smiling at her, licking his lips, she said. "He was looking at me like, 'I got some meat,'" she said in an interview Friday.
He is described in police records as six foot four and 230 pounds.
"I started crying," demanding to be let off the bus, Duvall said.
She went to the rear entrance on the side of the moving bus, kicked the door off its hinges and jumped, she said, hitting her head on the sidewalk as she landed.
She said the driver stopped, got out and ran after her. A shopkeeper on Hollywood Road kept him away from her, she said.
"I felt like I had been saved," Duvall said. "He can't get to me no more."
Duvall was taken to the Grady Memorial Hospital, treated and released with stitches on her face, road rash on her hands and knees and headaches that continue to bother her, she said. She intends to sue MARTA for negligence, said her lawyer, Joseph Weeks.
Sims is in the Fulton County Jail, according to jail records, charged with criminal trespass, false imprisonment and kidnapping. The lawyer assigned to him at the Fulton County Public Defender's office did not respond to a phone message.
Hodgson said MARTA conducts criminal background checks on all prospective employees. She said he has no similar incidents on his record. He had worked for the agency 22 years.
And if you color outside the lines, Father O'Malley buttrapes you.
New York's Roman Catholic Church is trying a novel approach to alert children to the danger of being sexually assaulted by a priest, with an abuse-themed coloring book, officials said Tuesday.
"Being Friends, Being Safe, Being Catholic," was distributed earlier this year to several hundred schools in the New York area as part of the church's Safe Environment Program, a spokeswoman from the city's Archdiocese said.
One image in the book features a guardian angel hovering over an altar boy with a priest lurking in the background.
"For safety's sake, a child and an adult shouldn't be alone in a closed room together," the angel counsels. In another, the angel warns of a sexual predator attempting to chat with a child over the Internet.
David Clohessy, head of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, cautiously welcomed the initiative, but said it did not go far enough.
"We applaud the intent but worry a bit about the approach... it does still feel like almost every step taken by the hierarchy is one that's been prompted by external pressure," he told AFP.
The scale of child abuse by priests remained hidden in the United States for years until the Archbishop of Boston confessed in 2002 to protecting a priest he knew had sexually abused young members of his church.
According to the group "Bishop Accountability," some 3,000 priests out of the 42,000 across the country have since been denounced, some of whom have been investigated and convicted.
Since the scandal broke, US Catholic authorities have paid out close to 2.8 billion dollars in damages, forcing many dioceses to sell off their assets.
(Ed note: Make sure you check this post for how you can win a You Are Not Alone DVD now by submitting your version of the coloring book page.)
Update: Case against 3 shotas accused of raping, kidnapping a loli puzzling.
After announcing the rape charges leveled against three boys, ages 8 and 9, Acworth Police Capt. Wayne Dennard said he had "never seen anything like this."
And he's a seasoned cop.
he details are shocking enough. So are the potential repercussions, for the alleged victim — an 11-year-old playmate of the boys — and the accused.
Most startling of all: Sexual assaults committed by children, against children, are not as uncommon as parents want to believe, though some experts question whether boys as young as 8 are capable of rape.
"In my counseling center, we see lots of sexually aggressive children" said Dr. Julie Medlin, director of the Medlin Treatment Center, which treats both the victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse of all ages. "I can't tell you how common it is."
"This is a problem most people don't know about."
Sally Thigpen, statewide coordinator for Stop It Now! Georgia, a public health campaign targeting child sexual abuse, agrees the problem is a growing one. There's no single cause, she said. Some children may be repeating behavior they've experienced. Others may be influenced by repeated exposure to pornography.
"Sexual assault by children against other children is way more under-reported than sexual assaults committed by adults," Thigpen said.
While the behavior may not be isolated, such acts are rarely prosecuted, particularly among children so young. But Medlin said she has dealt with several rape cases involving children under 10 years old, most referred to her by juvenile judges or the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services.
Georgia's criminal code defines rape as "any penetration of the female sex organ by the male sex organ." While it's difficult for many to fathom children so young engaging in such activity, it can, and does, happen.
"Little boys can get erections," Thigpen said. Medlin concurs that children can get aroused by sexual material. "Children are capable of having sexual feelings," she said. "They can experience the same [physical] sensations an adult does."
Some of the behavior is natural. It's normal for children ages 6-10 to explore their bodies, Medlin said. They may play games like "doctor" or "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." When that behavior turns aggressive it may indicate that the perpetrator has likewise been a victim of sexual abuse, she said.
"Usually, something's been done to them or it's something they've seen," Medlin said.
Due to a court-imposed gag order, few details are known about the Acworth case. The girl told investigators she was pulled into a wooded area by the boys, where she said she was raped Nov. 15. The alleged incident occurred on a Thursday and was reported to police two days later. The boys are charged with rape, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual assault. Their age precludes them from being charged with felonies but the alleged delinquent acts could land them in a juvenile facility where they would be placed among mostly older children.
"There's possibly a few that age, but they would certainly be a distinct minority," said Steve Hayes, public affairs director for the state Department of Juvenile Justice.
Some experts believe the case doesn't belong in the court system.
"Forcible fondling between children is miles apart from what we think of as rape," said Frank Zimring, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored books and papers on child legal issues. "The motivation, the sophistication, the degree to which it is sexual ... it's not in the same league."
Charging the children with assault may be more appropriate, Zimring said. "But considering the ages, and relationships between the children, I'm skeptical," he said. "It seems like this should be discussed without involving a sexual component."
Child psychologist Elizabeth Ellis also disputes whether boys that age are capable of rape, in the adult context. "This whole case is rather mind-boggling," Ellis said. "If the boys did anything, it's more likely to be grabbing and groping. To act in such a coordinated fashion just seems far-fetched. Eight- and 9-year-olds aren't really capable of conspiring to commit a crime."
Ellis, a former counselor at a rape crisis center, said young girls in the 8 to 13 age range sometimes fabricate stories about sexual assaults.
"I get about one a year among my patients," she said. "There's something about our culture that seems to love sexual abuse victims."
A 1989 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found rates of false allegations made by children range between 2 percent and 8 percent. However, the rate of reported sexual abuse cases that are never substantiated is between 50 percent to 65 percent. For children ages 6 to 12, the rate of false allegations is 4.3 percent. The rate rises with the onset of adolescence.
"What motivation would a child have to make this up?" Medlin said of the Acworth case. "What does she have to gain?"
Regardless of whether the accusations in the Acworth case are valid, Medlin said the problem of child-on-child sexual abuse is only getting worse.
"Porn is becoming more and more accessible, and children are like clay," she said. "At that young age, if they hadn't seen it, they may have never thought about it."
Intervention is key.
"When you see this happening, you need to do something," Medlin said. "It's much, much easier to treat a younger child than a teenager or adult."
Three shotas accused of kidnapping and rape of slightly older loli.
Ackworth, GA -- Three boys accused in the alleged kidnapping and rape of an 11-year-old girl were in Cobb County Juvenile Court on Monday afternoon.
The courtroom was packed with relatives. The small boys were in blue jail jumpsuits, their hands in restraints.
The youngest, an 8-year-old, his blonde hair in a bowl cut, had bags under his eyes. One of the 9-year-old boys sat with his elbows on the defense table. The other 9-year-old boy sat back in a chair, dwarfed by his attorney.
Reporters were allowed into the courtroom briefly to make arguments for access to the hearing. Prosecutors and defense attorneys argued the media was not allowed. Presiding Judge A. Gregory Poole found the law did not permit media access to the hearing.
The boys, ages 8 and 9, were arrested by Acworth police Sunday night. They are accused of raping an 11-year-old playmate, said Capt. Wayne Dennard.
Dennard said the alleged rape occurred Thursday. It was reported to police late Saturday night, he said.
The girl told investigators that she had been playing with the boys earlier. The three boys "pulled her into wooded area, where one of the boys raped her."
The boys were taken into custody late Sunday.
The age of the alleged participants presents prosecutors with inherent difficulties in handling the case.
"We have a lot of conflict about how to treat younger juvenile offenders," said state Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur) who is involved with a state bar association drafting proposed revisions as to how juveniles are treated under criminal law.
"Research tell us that children as young as 8 and 9 do not have sufficient capacity to form criminal intent, in the way adults do," she said.
How the alleged crime is viewed, whether the suspects should be treated as juveniles or adults, is particularly problematic for alleged sex offenders.
"The younger the child is and the more horrible the facts, the more confused our policies are" said Oliver, a lawyer. Dennard said the victim and the boys live in "close proximity" to each other.
The boys are being held at the Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center. They are charged with rape, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual assault.
"I have never seen anything like this," Dennard said.
(Ed note: They're seriously thinking of trying boys 8 and 9 years old as adults? Jesus H. Christ what the hell? If you've been here long enough, you know my philosophies on how children are sexual creatures and should be taught things earlier than even most liberals believe they should be.
You can't have it both ways! You can't say they are young, they are innocent, they should never hear the word sex until they're 18 -- and then go and try to make them into adults when you need to prosecute a case. It's outrageous.
If these boys are guilty of what they are accused of, and I had heard some reports that the girl was "bragging" about what had happened so all the fact are far from being in, the absolute worst case is they be held in protective custody with counseling until they are 16 or so. And I don't mean shitty counseling where they'll end up just being worse criminals within the system either. I mean something legit. But the likelihood of that happening is probably not very good.)
A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
The 19-year-old woman -- whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms -- was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape," the Arab News reported.
But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia's Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.
A court source told the English-language Arab News that the judges had decided to punish the woman further for "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media."
Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine known as Wahhabism and forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public.
Last year, the court sentenced six Saudi men to between one and five years in jail for the rape as well as ordering lashes for the victim, a member of the minority Shiite community.
But the woman's lawyer Abdul Rahman al-Lahem appealed, arguing that the punishments were too lenient in a country where the offence can carry the death penalty.
In the new verdict issued on Wednesday, the Al-Qatif court also toughened the sentences against the six men to between two and nine years in prison.
The case has angered members of Saudi Arabia's Shiite community. The convicted men are Sunni Muslims, the dominant community in the oil-rich Gulf state.
Lahem, also a human rights activist, told AFP on Wednesday that the court had banned him from handling the rape case and withdrew his licence to practise law because he challenged the verdict.
He said he has also been summoned by the ministry of justice to appear before a disciplinary committee in December.
Lahem said the move might be due to his criticism of some judicial institutions, and "contradicts King Abdullah's quest to introduce reform, especially in the justice system."
King Abdullah last month approved a new body of laws regulating the judicial system in Saudi Arabia, which rules on the basis of sharia, or Islamic law.
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of a young man who has been imprisoned for more than two years for having consensual oral sex with another teenager.
The court ruled 4-3 that Genarlow Wilson's 10-year sentence was cruel and unusual punishment.
Wilson, 21, was convicted of aggravated child molestation following a 2003 New Year's Eve party at a Douglas County hotel room where he was videotaped having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. He was 17 at the time.
Wilson was acquitted of raping another 17-year-old girl at the party.
The 1995 law Wilson violated was changed in 2006 to make oral sex between teens close in age a misdemeanor, similar to the law regarding teen sexual intercourse. But the state Supreme Court later upheld a lower court's ruling which said that the 2006 law could not be applied retroactively.
Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears wrote in the majority opinion that the changes in the law "represent a seismic shift in the legislature's view of the gravity of oral sex between two willing teenage participants."
Sears wrote that the severe punishment makes "no measurable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment" and that Wilson's crime did not rise to the "level of adults who prey on children."
State Attorney General Thurbert Baker said he accepts Friday's ruling.
Baker said he hopes the ruling will "put an end to this issue as a matter of contention in the hearts and minds of concerned Georgians and others across the country who have taken such a strong interest in this case."
The state Supreme Court had turned down Wilson's appeal of his conviction and sentence, but the justices agreed to hear the state's appeal of a Monroe County judge's decision to reduce Wilson's sentence to 12 months and free him. That judge had called the 10-year sentence a "grave miscarriage of justice."
Dissenting justices wrote that the state Legislature expressly stated that the 2006 change in the law was not intended to affect any crime prior to that date.
They said Wilson's sentence could not be cruel and unusual because the state Legislature decided that Wilson could not benefit from subsequent laws reducing the severity of the crime from a felony to a misdemeanor.
They called the decision an "unprecedented disregard for the General Assembly's constitutional authority."
A spokeswoman for Wilson's lawyer said his legal team received no advance notice of the decision.
You can remove the testicles, but you can never remove the taint... on your soul.
Springfield, Ill. -- A man who apparently was feeling an urge to commit a sex crime tried to remove his own testicles overnight.
The 59-year-old man was bleeding profusely when police arrived around 8:15 p.m., but he is expected to survive.
The man used a fillet knife to remove one testicle and flushed it down the toilet. The other testicle was nearly cut off.
The man then called a friend for help. He was rushed to the hospital after police and paramedics arrived.
He told police he was feeling the urge to touch and hurt children. He previously had been in trouble for sex-related issues. He said he was not trying to take his life but was trying to stem the urge.
A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her.
The woman was found dead at the family's sheep and cattle ranch near the town of Mitchell in Queensland.
The woman had been given the camel as a 60th birthday present earlier this year because of her love of exotic pets.
The camel was just 10 months old but already weighed 152kg (336lbs) and had come close to suffocating the family's pet goat on a number of occasions.
On Saturday, the woman apparently became the object of the male camel's desire.
It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police delicately described as possible mating behaviour.
"I'd say it's probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing," the Associated Press news agency quoted Queensland police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory as saying.
Young camels are not normally aggressive but can become more threatening if treated and raised as pets.
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MADISON, Wis. - Three men who dug up a young woman's corpse to have sex with it after seeing her obituary photo cannot be charged with attempted sexual assault because Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia, an appeals court ruled Thursday.
A judge was correct to dismiss the charges against twin brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke, all 21, because lawmakers never intended to criminalize sex with a corpse, the District 4 Court of Appeals said in a 3-0 ruling.
The three men went to a cemetery in Cassville in southwestern Wisconsin on Sept. 2 to remove the body of Laura Tennessen, 20, who had been killed the week before in a motorcycle crash.
The men used shovels to reach her grave. They abandoned their plan and were eventually arrested after a vehicle drove into the cemetery and reported suspicious behavior, authorities said.
They said the men had seen an obituary of Tennessen with her photo and wanted to dig up her body to have sexual intercourse. Such an act is known as necrophilia.
The men were charged with attempted third-degree sexual assault and misdemeanor attempted theft charges. But Grant County Circuit Judge George Curry dismissed the sexual assault charges in September, saying no Wisconsin law addressed necrophilia. Prosecutors appealed his ruling.
At issue is a provision in the sexual assault law saying criminal penalties apply "whether a victim is dead or alive at the time of the sexual contact or sexual intercourse."
The appeals court said the law was ambiguous but the most reasonable interpretation was that it does not ban necrophilia. Instead, the court said, the law was meant to make sure prosecutors could bring sexual assault charges in rape-murder cases in which the victim ends up dead.
Outrage over the case might soon change the law.
Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, introduced legislation Wednesday that would make having sex with a corpse a felony with punishment of up to 6 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The bill would levy the same penalties against anyone who intentionally disturbs a burial site or a buried human corpse.
Sherborn, MASS -- A Sherborn teen was charged yesterday with having sex with sheep at a farm near his home, and police reports suggest the encounters may have gone on for nearly a year.
Roger Henderson II, 18, was arraigned yesterday in Natick District Court on charges of bestiality, cruelty to animals and breaking and entering in connection with an incident police say took place at Boggastow Farm on June 27.
According to a police report, the farm's barn had been the target of at least a dozen break-ins between August 2006 and June 2007, prompting the property owner to install surveillance cameras.
Between 3 and 4 a.m. on June 27, according to police, the camera captured and filmed a person identified as Roger Henderson II.
The man grabbed a sheep by its hind legs and dragged it to the corner of the stall, according to police. The man removed his clothes and appeared to have sexual relations with the sheep. After finishing, the man put his pants back on and left the barn with his shirt in his hand, according to the report.
Following his arraignment yesterday, Henderson was released to the custody of his parents, on the condition he stay at least 30 yards away from the farm, and animals in general.
The teen also was ordered to "report immediately to Leonard Morse (Hospital) to continue current mental health treatment," according to court documents.
A woman at Boggastow Farm yesterday shouted, "no comment" to reporters before later threatening to call police.
Yesterday's proceedings took just minutes, as not guilty pleas were entered on the three charges and didn't require Henderson to appear in open court. Prosecutors, defense attorneys and police met with Judge Douglas Stoddard behind closed doors before agreeing to release the teen to his parents.
Following the proceeding, Henderson left the court through a back door, covering his face with a black T-shirt. He was quickly whisked away in a dark red Jeep Cherokee.
Henderson is due back in court Sept. 4 for a pretrial conference.
Harry Potter 5 made 44,755,000 million Wednesday giving it the new champion of a non-holiday Wednesday release besting Spider-man 2.
I like the film, there is soo many good things that made me clap and squeal with glee. So many supports for slash fan fiction too. I mean, it won't be a spoiler to tell you that Sirius Black is practically raeping Harry with his eyes in any scene they're together.
But there is much to dislike too. Very uneven with the pacing and a downright abusive score really mark the worst of the problems. There are also a few scenes that threaten to drag the film to a complete standstill.
I believe I'd give it a B on one viewing. (I usually watch Harry Potter movies a few times) So that's lower than the last two.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Mother and son huddled together, battered and beaten, in the bathroom — sobbing, wondering why no one came to help. Surely the neighbors had heard their screams. The walls are thin, the screen doors flimsy in this violence-plagued housing project on the edge of downtown.
For three hours, the pair say, they endured sheer terror as the 35-year-old Haitian immigrant was raped and sodomized by up to 10 masked teenagers and her 12-year-old son was beaten in another room.
Then, mother and son were reunited to endure the unspeakable: At gunpoint, the woman was forced to perform oral sex on the boy, she later told a TV station.
Afterward, they were doused with household cleansers, perhaps in a haphazard attempt to scrub the crime scene, or maybe simply to torture the victims even more. The solutions burned the boy's eyes.
The thugs then fled, taking with them a couple of hundred dollars' worth of cash, jewelry and cell phones.
In the interview with WPTV, the mother described how she and her son sobbed in the bathroom, too shocked to move. Then, in the dark of night, they walked a mile to the hospital because they had no phone to call for help.
Two teenagers — a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old — have been arrested. Eight others are being sought.
Welcome to Dunbar Village, a place residents call hell.