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Small Town Turns On Girl Who Was Allegedly Raped By HS Football Player [#303, #380]

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Sometimes, the allegations are actually false.

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Not saying anything about whether the allegations in the OP are true or not because I don't know, but there is a purpose for the criminal justice system and allegations does not equal convictions.
 
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Sometimes, the allegations are actually false.

Duke lacrosse case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not saying anything about whether the allegations in the OP are true or not because I don't know, but there is a purpose for the criminal justice system and allegations does not equal convictions.

Nope. But they should be taken seriously. It is some kind of social sickness that this community doesn't even care to find out whether this girl was raped. All they care about is their boys in the football team.

This isn't a question of what's wrong with the criminal justice system. It's a question of what's wrong with these supposed human beings.
 

If it is true and he did rape her, then congrats on the people over there for becoming kinsmen with the suadi arabians.

But as Xfactor posted, there are cases, especially with teens, when it's a lie. Ofc, sometimes it is a lie, sometimes it isn't. In this case it could be or it couldn't be. Let justice run its course.

Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White told the Huffington Post his department presented a "strong case" to prosecutors that then 17-year-old Matthew Barnett raped Coleman's daughter.
 
Nope. But they should be taken seriously. It is some kind of social sickness that this community doesn't even care to find out whether this girl was raped. All they care about is their boys in the football team.

This isn't a question of what's wrong with the criminal justice system. It's a question of what's wrong with these supposed human beings.

I looked at the first link, the case was investigated and charges were dropped (then a whole bunch of people in the comment section called for violence against people they've never met because they are, of course, more aware of all the facts than the people involved).
 
Sadly not the first time this happens and it wont be the last time.
 
If she was "14" then why was she hanging out with older highschoolers? Drinking? I think there is more to the story, there usually is.
 
I can predict exactly how this thread will go. People will read one or more of articles that are clearly skewed, determine the boy to be guilty because now they know just as much or more than any jury would and call for some type of physical retribution on the kid who has, as yet, not been legally convicted of anything (but who the **** cares about all that legal crap?). If the thread goes on long enough, it will become about partisan politics.
 
If she was "14" then why was she hanging out with older highschoolers? Drinking? I think there is more to the story, there usually is.

Apparently she was a high school student hanging out with high school students doing what high school students do.

Does that excuse the rape?
Does that excuse the callous way the girls family was treated after the rape?
Does that excuse anything?

Sure, the girls made some bad choices. Most do.
Doesn't mean the boys didn't make far worse choices and illegal choices at that.

Why are the boys not being held accountable, but the girls seem to be?
 
Apparently she was a high school student hanging out with high school students doing what high school students do.

Does that excuse the rape?
Does that excuse the callous way the girls family was treated after the rape?
Does that excuse anything?

Sure, the girls made some bad choices. Most do.
Doesn't mean the boys didn't make far worse choices and illegal choices at that.

Why are the boys not being held accountable, but the girls seem to be?

How do you know for a fact that the boy is guilty? See, it's a little quirk in our law that the person making the accusations actually has to prove them. That may sound really awful and mean and unjust, but I don't think you'd like the system if it were the other way around.
 
How do you know for a fact that the boy is guilty? See, it's a little quirk in our law that the person making the accusations actually has to prove them. That may sound really awful and mean and unjust, but I don't think you'd like the system if it were the other way around.

I'm not saying the boys are guilty.

I'm horrified that the boys apparently are being let off so easily, and even more horrified at the reaction of the town against the girl's family.
 
I'm not saying the boys are guilty.

I'm horrified that the boys apparently are being let off so easily, and even more horrified at the reaction of the town against the girl's family.

If you're not saying the boys are guilty then what has you so horrified and why have you twice now said it WAS rape? Why would you be horrified about someone not being punished for a crime you're NOT saying they committed? If the allegations were false, would you be equally as horrified on the boy's behalf?
 
Sometimes, the allegations are actually false.

Duke lacrosse case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not saying anything about whether the allegations in the OP are true or not because I don't know, but there is a purpose for the criminal justice system and allegations does not equal convictions.
THe 17-year old boy admitted having sex with the 14-year old girl. It should have been slam dunk.
 
If you're not saying the boys are guilty then what has you so horrified and why have you twice now said it WAS rape? Why would you be horrified about someone not being punished for a crime you're NOT saying they committed? If the allegations were false, would you be equally as horrified on the boy's behalf?

Why are you defending the boys - and not the girls?
 
If she was "14" then why was she hanging out with older highschoolers? Drinking? I think there is more to the story, there usually is.

That doesn't matter. She could have been prancing around the yard buck naked and that 17-year old boy still broke the law when he boinked her.
 
Why are you defending the boys - and not the girls?

Common practice among Conservatives, I'm afraid. In their world, a woman should keep her knees clamped shut. If they end up raped, she obviously did something wrong. Righties blame the woman...you know, just like the Taliban do.
 
Failure to answer my questions noted. What should I condemn the boy for?

Uh, how about statutory Rape, for starters :roll:
 
Plus - there was a witness and a video tape of the crime.



It's bad that alot of these type of crimes are being recorded, but in another way it's kinda good that now it can be proven what really happened, instead of the girl being blamed and shunned. I just hope the next update to the story isn't the girl's suicide. How horrible to go through that and then deal with such b.s.
 
Common practice among Conservatives, I'm afraid. In their world, a woman should keep her knees clamped shut. If they end up raped, she obviously did something wrong. Righties blame the woman...you know, just like the Taliban do.

Bwahahaha, did I call it or not? Granted, I thought it would take longer than page two but I should have known it would jump to partisan idiocy as soon as you replied to the thread.


I can predict exactly how this thread will go. People will read one or more of articles that are clearly skewed, determine the boy to be guilty because now they know just as much or more than any jury would and call for some type of physical retribution on the kid who has, as yet, not been legally convicted of anything (but who the **** cares about all that legal crap?). If the thread goes on long enough, it will become about partisan politics.
 
Failure to answer my questions noted. What should I condemn the boy for?

There's nothing about the girls stories of the events that sounds fishy.
There's nothing about the way the parents of the girls found their children that sounds fishy.
There's every reason to believe the events happens as described.

Even if the girls "consented" to sex - there's laws that say that they were raped.

This isn't rocket science on that front.

The boys also supplied the girls with alcohol.


There's a laundry list of illegal activity here to investigate and plenty of legal grounds for at the very least - A TRIAL!!!!!
 
Bwahahaha, did I call it or not? Granted, I thought it would take longer than page two but I should have known it would jump to partisan idiocy as soon as you replied to the thread.

Hey, you're the one acting like the American Taliban, blaming a 14-year-old girl for being raped by a 17-year-old boy. It's not partisan politics---it's Right Wing nuttery.
 
Plus - there was a witness and a video tape of the crime.

So you ARE saying the boy's are guilty. Could you make up your mind on that? Have you seen the video or the confession?
 
If she was "14" then why was she hanging out with older highschoolers? Drinking? I think there is more to the story, there usually is.

It's the victim's fault. We should stone her.
 
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