I don't know anything about this case. However...whenever nearly everyone involved in a situation like this is on one side, and an article is published that makes it seem like all of those people are out of their minds...generally, there is a lot more to the story.

Is it more likely that an entire community is cool with raping a young girl OR is it more likely that a single reporter is trying to break a huge story by selectively including/omitting critical details?

Which has ****all to do with statutory rape.

I would say the Sheiffs comments seem to paint a pretty good picture that they thought they had a pretty good case.. They had video/confessions/Sheriffs stating it was a air tight case. I remember hearing about this awhile back, but never heard anyone defending the rapist.

This is the same area where a man was shot in broad daylight with over 30 witnesses and no one was ever prosecuted because the witnesses wouldn't speak.

This is also the same area where a pregnant woman was murdered, and the baby was cut out of her.

Maryville and the towns that surround it are filled with weird people.

I'm saying the state laws are stupid. If he can be persecuted for statutory that great, do it! But the town let him walk. I'm saying that if he is a minor in the legal sense, that is, below the age of 18 which is where most if not all the people in the US say is when a minor becomes an adult, then go after his parents too.

I smell bullshit, there is no woman on earth under the age of 80 named "Daisy".

Both of those incidents happened in Skidmore Missouri. Bobbie Jo wasn't kidnapped, but murdered in her own home. McElroy got what was coming to him from a community that was terrorized by him and his family

You didn't read the story, but people like you that blame the rape victim for being raped can DIAF.

One my best friends worked as a part time deputy sheriff in Nodaway County while he getting his degree at NWMSU. His opinion of the locals was not good.

So there was more to each of those stories than what a one-sided comment included?

You got it brother.

Real person.

http://kcur.org/post/why-was-maryvil...e-case-dropped

I've ready about this story after it happened since Maryville and St. Joe have some ties Maryville shit gets reported down here. The facts haven't changed in the last 2 years one bit as far as I've read.

I'm not sure what more there might be.

That’s when Melinda Coleman called 911, setting off a law enforcement response that Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White is proud of, saying they had the boys’ “videotaped confessions” wrapped up that day.




Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White outside the jail in Maryville, Mo
“I was actually pretty happy with it because we had what I considered to be a very serious crime and within a matter of a few hours, we had warrants for their arrest and they'd been arrested,” he said. “That's a pretty good day.”

In Missouri, 17-year-olds are considered to be adults in the criminal justice system. So Barnett was charged with a felony for sexual assault and a misdemeanor for child endangerment. The underage boy with Daisy’s friend also admitted he forced her into sex and was charged in the juvenile system.

I changed the kidnapped to murdered. I said the same area because Skidmore and Maryville are about 15 minutes apart and both in the middle of no where.

The people of the Nodaway County in Missouri are creepy ****ing people.

It's sort of like Deliverance placed in Missouri.