MOAR!!!

I love anon, and I hope they are able to do something substantial.

I would also like to hear from some of our legal gurus on the board.

Paging Dj's left nut.

That may have been a good thing if they were making payments on it and the community refused to buy it.

The work that offshoot group did with the Steubenville case was amazing.

This is not funny and I'm not trying to joke about it...but I'm on my phone and the title was cut off to read 'Maryville Teen Allegedly Raped by Football.' That seemed painful.

Saying someone made bad decisions doesn't mean you're blaming them.

Saying a woman shouldn't walk in a dark parking lot alone at night doesn't mean you're blaming her if she gets mugged.

True, but when he added this part it sounded a whole lot like he didn't have much sympathy for her and stopped just short of saying it was her fault.

"Back in college, I can remember false calls of rape happening a lot. Girls get drunk, sleep with someone they wouldn't normally sleep with, then cry rape the day after. Happened to a mate of mine. Nearly ruined his life as well. Then the girls story unraveled and she admitted finally that it was consensual."

this dad of 4 girls would be in prison right about now for blowing his head off.

I'll take a stab at it. Consensual sex requires capacity to consent, and this girl's BAL was .13 in the morning (probably at least 8-10 hours after the party). Extrapolating back to when the alleged rape occurred, I think a tox expert could credibly testify that she was either passed out or so drunk as to be unable to meaningfully consent. She was probably somewhere around a .20 to .25, which is pretty ****ed up for a 14 year old girl. Again, keep in mind I don't know when the rape occurred or when she was tested.

Apparently there's a loophole in the current law, however, where that incapacity has to be caused only by the perp. In this case, she clearly had a role in her incapacity

http://barnesformissouri.com/?p=935

So, I'm back to my original assessment that a properly motivated prosecutor should at least have gotten a statutory conviction/plea. The perp's grandfather was retired highway patrol, so my guess is a few favors were called in.

:thumb:

Thanks.

I wonder if this didn't have more to do with their place as football players or just as popular kids than local politics. Who knows.

I went to college there and have several local friends. I guarantee the entire community doesn't approve of this or support it.

Tons of fellow bearcats on this board it seems.

Why were they silent? Why didn't anybody stand up for this girl?

All 3, since he was a popular football player with political ties in his family, and (supposedly) favors were called in to get the charges dropped, as they had been in the past for the same kid.