Georgia Child Rape Case Has Some Problems (Part II)
Background: An 11-year-old Georgia girl claims that an 8-year-old and two 9-year-old boys kidnapped and raped her, and they have been criminally charged. While the girl sounded credible during the brief CNN interview, there are several elements of the case which call her account into question. To learn more, see my blog post Georgia Child Rape Case Has Some Problems (Part I).
I read this article and watched the video tape and almost fell off my chair. In the story, one of the boys’ fathers said that if there was sex between his son and the girl, it was consensual.
When asked for a response, incredibly, Police Chief Michael Wilkie of Acworth (pictured) told CNN that because children that young cannot legally consent to sex, “we have to go with the charges we have”–in other words, the rape charges. So let’s say that the 11 year-old girl and one of the boys did have consensual sex. Because children cannot legally consent to sex, that means that the girl has been raped and the boy is a rapist? Even though they’re both children? Even though the girl is considerably older than the boy?
The full story is below. The video link is here.
Three boys, 8 and 9, charged with raping 11-year-old girl
CNN, 11/19/07
MARIETTA, Georgia (CNN) — Three boys, ages 8 and 9, were charged Monday with raping an 11-year-old girl last week, court officials and police said.
“Never in my 20-plus years of law enforcement have I conceived of something like this,” Police Chief Michael Wilkie of Acworth, Georgia, told CNN.
Clad in blue jumpsuits, the two 9-year-olds and one 8-year-old appeared in court in Cobb County, north of Atlanta, on Monday afternoon and were ordered to remain in custody until a further hearing. Family members were in court for their appearance, which was closed to reporters.
Wilkie said the girl told investigators she was raped Thursday evening. She was examined by doctors after her family reported the allegation late Saturday, and investigators questioned her extensively on Sunday, he said.
The father of one of the boys told The Associated Press that no force was used against the girl, and said the allegations have been leveled because the accuser “didn’t want to get in trouble with her parents.” Watch chief describe parents’ reactions to charges against their sons »
But Wilkie said children that young cannot legally consent to sex, “so we have to go with the charges we have.” (more…)
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November 21st, 2007 at 2:02 pm
“When asked for a response, incredibly, Police Chief Michael Wilkie of Acworth (pictured) told CNN that because children that young cannot legally consent to sex, “we have to go with the charges we have”–in other words, the rape charges. So let’s say that the 11 year-old girl and one of the boys did have consensual sex. Because children cannot legally consent to sex, that means that the girl has been raped and the boy is a rapist? Even though they’re both children? Even though the girl is considerably older than the boy?”
Quite possibly the most vile, misinformed, misandrist nonsense that I have had the displeasure to read so far this year! How is it that through consensual sex, an 8- or 9-year old boy can be held any more liable than the 11year-old girl?
In this case, everyone directly involved was equally “guilty” of criminal action…. that is to say, not at all!
Which sort of backwards, male-hating Neanderthals don’t get it? These two boys are the unwilling participants in a witch hunt against anyone born with a penis.
Most likely, the two boys and the girl were engaging in youthful experimentation and the girl’s mom, upon hearing of it declared war on those NASTY boys for “sullying” her pure-as-the-driven-snow 11-year old daughter.
The little girl is almost certainly lying about the “rape” aspects, but already in the court of public opinion, these two boys are GUILTY.
No matter that two young boys (one apparently with a broken wrist) could not overpower a girl…..
This is another “Duke lacrosse team” false rape accusation.
Besides the ages of the individuals involved, there’s a noticeable difference: the defendants’ families are poor. No high-priced lawyers here to defend those boys.
Should the mother of the 11-year-old girl involved feel any more outrage than the mothers of the 8- and 9-year old boys?
And just how much pressure are the feminists placing on the Georgia law enforcement and juvenile courts to ensure that these two boys are found guilty, no matter the actual facts of the case?
To hell with the Jenna six. Free the Cob County Two!
November 21st, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Make that “Free the Cob County Three!”
November 22nd, 2007 at 4:16 am
If I am not mistaken, the girl bragged about it with her friends and that is how her parents eventually got wind of it. It sure does not sound like she was forced. If anything, It seems it was her ideal and perhaps the boy is the real victim here.
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
On another board covering this latest outrage in the war on our boys, a poster brought up a couple of interesting points worth mentioning:
“Why don’t you use the “dominant agressor” standard that feminists have been arguing for in mutual domestic violence cases?”
And that poster is correct. With the 11 year old girl larger than any of the boys, shouldn’t the same sort of logic apply…. at least as soon as the girl’s case that the alleged rape was “forcible” begins to fall apart under questioning?
“In this case the girl is much larger than the boys, and if they had sex with her, then it follows that she had sex with them – underage and physically smaller? If the boys are found innocent, are you going to charge the girl?”
Indeed, this question ought to be presented to the Georgia D.A. repeatedly…….
“If the 11-year-old girl had been fooling around (with sexual contact) with 8- and 9-year old GIRLS, who if anyone would you be charging then?”
When is the last time that a little girl was charged with rape for playing “doctor” with other little girls?
All points to ponder, thanks to a poster named Tweesdad….
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:06 pm
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