GUILTY KS - 13 yr old girl Sodomy case - Holton

Maisiebelle said:

Is this trial being streamed?


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siriunsun said:

I doubt if Jackson County would stream this trial, especially when a jury is involved. It was hard enough to seat a jury in the first place, because so many people in NE Kansas cannot get past their worries about what other people think of them. Any accidental footage of the jury would only exacerbate that problem and possibly corrupt justice, here.

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Jewels53 said:

Ewing trial: Mother says rape victim ‘had her power taken away’

http://cjonline.com/news/crime-cour...her-says-rape-victim-had-her-power-taken-away

Several witnesses tesified for the Prosecution yesterday and are quoted in the article above.

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siriunsun said:

Sadly, this whole situation goes to the flaws in the culture, here in Kansas. While this guy definitely owes accountability to the victim and the community for his violence, the wrong message was sent by the victim when she slept in his bed.....even if the whole thing was arranged beforehand. Another problem I had in Kansas, involving my daughter, had to do with a classmate of hers inviting a friend from another state to have relations with my daughter. She had never done anything like that before, and I not only stopped allowing her to have any contact with this classmate's family, I got a lot more strict with all of my children. The principal of the school went on a smear campaign against me, and lectured me on how cruel it is to stop children from socially getting to know each other! Sexual exploitation is a thing, here in Kansas, and the people here DO NOT understand the difference between assault and affection, or age appropriate friendships, or the difference between right and wrong. No kidding. It came as no surprise to see the thirteen year old regarded as collateral by a "quaint" small community in Kansas, but looking more closely at the whole thing.....what kind of message is sent by sleeping in a guy's bed? That is when the current victim's power disappeared, and she gave it up, it wasn't taken away. She should never have been in that situation in the first place, and a community that values sexual exploitation as a social game should not have been important to her. That said, most of the people in Holton are nice, and I am sorry to see these things happen.

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No it's not said:

Glad he did not capture the victims or jurors... -Nin

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article158800719.html

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Jewels53 said:

I understand what your experience was and what the culture is in small town America is. I live in a small town in NE Kansas also and it probably has the same mind set here, I didn't raise my children here they were raised in a small town in Missouri. I saw to many times where we moved from in MO the natives got treated special and the transplants like we were treated different. It is not just in Kansas, it is all over is small town USA.

I think the judges could make a difference in these small towns if they wanted to. I know they have to follow the law, but they can also accept special circumstances. jmo

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siriunsun said:

I've seen judges try to make differences around here. In my corner of Kansas, we have a county attorney who lets her son drive over people's cornfields and gardens, while she concocts false accusations against others. A judge actually prohibited her from any prosecution of a reporter here, because he perceived that she was taking the words of that reporter "too personally". Another judge also threw the book at a high school senior, an honor student, in this county who pimped an eight grader she was supposed to mentor to some railroad employees! The human trafficking charge ended up getting her put in prison for almost ten years. There are actually people here who think that a little human trafficking between friends is no big deal! They have no idea how this looks to the rest of us, or how this affects the rest of the nation, or the rest of the world. I have never lived in a place where people actually came out and said that prostitution of a junior high student by a high school student is okey-dokey. These people are truly freaky.

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