Archive for the ‘Child Rape’ Category

Craigslist responds to AK and MC WaPo ads

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Last week the Washington Post ran a half page ad on behalf of two girls identified only as AK and MC addressed to craigslist founder Craig Newmark.  As with most anecdotal portrayals of the child sex slave epidemic, little to no independent supporting information is offered.  The testimony is to be taken at face value and only someone without a heart could possibly question the position advocated by these victims.

A response to that ad was posted yesterday on the craigslist blog.  The response should be read in its entirety, but the following point stands out:

Hearing your accounts of being victimized by criminals who you mention also misused our site, we are anxious to know that the perpetrators are behind bars. Would you or the advocacy groups who placed the ads please let us know where the police reports were filed? We have been unable thus far to identify police reports matching the crimes you describe.

It will be interesting to see where this goes, but political smear campaigns that invoke the mantra of protecting children are almost always successful simply because they exploit people’s emotional response to claims of children being injured and they are persistent in the sense that, if you repeat something long and loud enough, people will eventually believe it.

In the end, nearly all persecution is done under the pretense of legitimacy.  As  state sponsored persecution of gays and African American’s is now acknowledged as inexcusable, so will persecution of sex workers eventually be recognized for what it is.

If these groups were really on a mission to prevent child prostitution, they would not be so focused on eradicating adult prostitution.  They would be vigorously campaigning to make it legal with the same transparency and protections enjoyed by all other legitimate business.  But, the reality is that they are not saving children.  They are using children.

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15 y/o New Jersey girl charged with ‘sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes’

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

According to UPI.com:

Police in New Jersey said they arrested a suspect Thursday in the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl who then offered up her 7-year-old sister to be gang raped.

Wait a sec.  If, as the law holds, she’s too young to have any responsibility for her own complicity in having sex with someone older, how can she possibly be held responsible for selling her sister to be gang raped?

Yes, I’m being sarcastic, but when someone more than a couple years older has sex with a minor, the act is commonly referred to as statutory rape, implying that the victim was unable to voluntarily participate.   And yet, if that same victim shoots a few of her classmates, the public and prosecutors would immediately move to try the teen as an adult implying she was completely in control.  In this case, the 15 year old girl, being the older party, is unquestioningly assumed to be responsible for the crime and was charged accordingly.

Whether a teen is considered responsible for their own actions is totally a matter of whether or not the waiting lynch mob has someone else to hang and rest assured, the blood lust of the mob will be satisfied by whatever means necessary.

There is obviously more to this story than what has been put forth in this short report because it would seem unlikely that a 15-year-old that had just been gang raped is not likely to be making clear headed decisions in any case.

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Sex offender registries

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Maybe they’re just a diversion to keep from finding out where the real perverts are hiding.

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Georgia apparently prosecutes child prostitutes

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

According to this opinion piece by Johnathan McGinty in the Athens Banner-Herald, Georgia State Sen. Renee Unterman, (R-Buford) wants to introduce a bill that would prevent Georgia from treating children picked up for prostitution like criminals and instead provide some kind of treatment.

Imagine your 12-year-old daughter has been kidnapped and, when she’s finally found, she’s been forced into a child prostitution ring. Imagine that she’s kept in a drug-induced haze and raped repeatedly. Imagine the horror, grief and shock that would overwhelm you and your family as you dealt with that situation, and the work you’d be eager to do to heal your daughter.

And now, in the middle of that trying and sensitive situation, imagine that the state of Georgia is labeling her a criminal.

So, the implication is that kids are being kidnapped, forced into prostitution, and when they are discovered, the state further victimizes them by prosecuting them.  Presumably this happens quite regularly since, according to McGinty, there are more than 400 child prostitutes in Atlanta alone, although the only case mentioned is from 2002.

McGinty describes why some oppose the legislation:

The current system, and the logic employed by those who so strenuously defend it, is seriously flawed. Rather than pursue justice against those who actually exploit young boys and girls, detractors of the proposed legislation would rather throw the victims in jail.

Yeah, I can see it now.  A child prostitution ring is uncovered and an angry mob storms the courthouse demanding the prosecution of the children and the immediate release of the pimps.

Mr McGinty needs to re-evaluate his strategy for conveying credibility.  This story doesn’t pass the smell test.

You have to love how both sides invoke the mantra “for the children”, though.  Of course, it’s not “exploitation” when politicians leverage off of children to advance their own personal careers.

Looks like a solution in search of a problem.  At the very least, Mr McGinty is probably leaving out some rather key facts.  I seriously doubt Georgia is prosecuting children who have been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.

And if Senator Unterman really wants to help children, she should consider legalizing prostitution, removing it from the shadowy criminal underground out into the light of day, giving those in the business an incentive to stay on the right side of the law.   When government outlaws consensual human behavior, they surrender all control over and visibility into that behavior.   It amounts to nothing more than a worthless  jobs program for cops while creating a fertile environment for corruption.  And because it makes one group of people miserable at the behest of another group of people,  it’s the definition of persecution.

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The Hall of Shame welcomes Kee McFarlane!

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Kee McFarlane was a key player in the crusade accusing the operators  of the  McMartin Preschool in Los Angeles County California with hundreds of counts of child sex abuse.   As a social worker and psychotherapist wannabe with the Childrens Institute International, she and her associates interviewed some 400 children in the McMartin Preschool case.  Her refusal to believe the children’s denials along with the application of intense goading and intimidation techniques ultimately led to claims that 360 children had been molested.   After a seven year trial, purported to be the most expensive in U.S. history at $15 million,  not a single conviction was handed down by the jury.    Characteristic of almost all the day care sex abuse cases of that period, the rabid ambitions of  incompetent witch hunters like Kee McFarlane utterly destroyed entire families without suffering so much as a scratch to themselves.

Welcome to the Sex Hysteria Hall of Shame, Kee.

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Where are juveniles most likely to be raped?

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

At the hands of the state, of course.  Juvenile detention centers are reported to have a 12% sexual abuse rate with 30% of inmates at some institutions claiming to have been raped.

That’s something to keep in mind next time you hear some grandstanding politician making ridiculous claims about how his legislation is going to reduce sex crimes.  Perhaps they should get their own house in order before trying to save the rest of the world.

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Obama Campaigns to elect Day Care Sex Abuse Witch Hunter to Ted Kenndy’s vacant Senate seat

Friday, January 15th, 2010

President Obama, in order to keep intact as much of his Health Care support as possible, is actively campaigning to elect Massachusetts Attorney General,  Martha Coakley to the U.S. Senate seat.

Not only was she part of the crusade that left the lives of  dozens of innocent families in smoldering wreckage, she has defended and re-defended her participation.

Gerald, Violet, and Cheryl Amirault who operated the Fells Acre Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts, were accused of child sex abuse in 1984 and were then prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to long prison terms.  One of the prosecutors in the case, Scott Harshbarger, riding the wave of publicity created by the sensational crusade was eventually elected Massachusettes Attorney General.

As in almost all of the day care hysteria cases of the 80s and 90s, the magnitude of the travesty of justice only became stunningly obvious when the children’s  interview tapes, virtually the only evidence against the Amiraults, were examined.  As the legitimacy of the convictions was increasingly called into question, prosecutors dug in their heals and fought, tooth and nail, to keep the Amiraults in prison even as their case disintegrated before their eyes.

By the time Coakley arrived on the scene in 1999, this process was well underway with even the media and public siding with the defendants.  As the pressure mounted and it seemed likely the Gerald Amirault would be released, Coakley agressively campaigned against him, ultimately delaying his release until 2004.

While, in the public mind (as well as the minds of many legal authorities involved in the case) the prosecutions were clearly bogus, Coakley and many of the other prosecutors in this and other cases still maintain that the defendants were guilty rather than admit an error that could possibly impact their precious careers.  It’s enough that these cold blooded monsters are still employed without their being even further rewarded with the personal attentions of a U.S. President to help them get elected simply to hang onto a  senate seat.

Coakley, coming in when she did, shared none of the blame for the original prosecutions.  She, more than anyone else, had the opportunity to turn the ship around and restore some semblance of sanity to state’s behavior.  She also had the benefit of knowing that similar cases all over the country were being exposed for the witch hunts that the were.   Nonetheless, Coakley aggressively continued to torture the Amiraults rather than do anything that might be conceived as backing down.  Coakley was too busy thinking about Coakley and her climb toward the Attorney General’s office to put an end to the train year wreck that began 15 years earlier when some over-zealous prosecutors saw Fells Acres as a chance at fame and glory.

If anything stands out about the day care sex abuse cases, it’s the absolute absurdity of so-called evidence that interviewers supposedly teased out of the children even after they repeatedly tried to tell investigators that nothing happened.   No one in the prosecutors office who had access to those tapes can be excused from responsibility for the assassination of those innocent people.

Credit goes to Radley Balko at theagitator.com which is where I first learned  about the connection between Coakley and the Fell Acres witch hunt and found the link to the excellent Wall Street Journal article.

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Rape victim denied opportunity to recant

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Katie Haught, 19, the daughter of a Hurricane, West Virginia man, Joseph Lavigne Jr., who is serving a 17-45 year sentence for raping her fifteen years ago was denied the opportunity to testify in his favor at a hearing to determine whether he should receive a new trial.  The judge worried about the accuracy of her memory and said she should save her testimony for a retrial, if there is one.

It’s an oddity of American justice that actual innocence is less a factor on appeal than whether all the rules have been followed during conviction, so the numerous claims that the father’s constitutional rights had been violated in the original 1996 trial took center stage.  Against the recommendation of a psychologist that she was not competent to testify, the daughter, six years old at the time of the original trial, took the stand, but never clearly testified that her father had raped her.

Child sex abuse cases almost invariably elicit the most emotional and horrified reactions on the part of a jury, so it’s not unusual for a jury to convict even when the  evidence is less than solid.  Prosecutors and law enforcement are known to grandstand and react to public pressure.  When the child is the only eye witness, the prosecution often has to rely heavily on circumstantial evidence which is often subject to inaccuracies due to careless investigation and prosecutorial or law enforcement misconduct.  From what I’ve read, that very well might be what happened in this case.  In fact, there seems to be ample reason to suspect the case was flawed from the very beginning and plenty of support for the father.

In any case, if the judicial process is going to be credible in any sense of the word, it must assign as much weight to the potential of actual innocence as it does to the potential for a violation of due process.

Thanks to reader MacGregory for the heads up on this one.

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