18 Arrested in Sexual Assaults on 11-Year-Old Texas Girl

[Ptarmigan]

18 Arrested in Sexual Assaults on 11-Year-Old Texas Girl
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/09/18-arrested-sexual-assaults-11-year-old-texas-girl/

This is really ****ed up! At least 18 men raped a 11 year old girl. Sick! They deserve a spot in the worst layer of Hell along with the 9/11 Terrorists.
 

[Texacon]

I just saw this today Ptarmy.  This happened in Cleveland!  Can you believe that shit??

I was in Cleveland with my son at the Army recruiters office yesterday.  Jeeze that is one screwed up little town.

KC

[Ptarmigan]

I just saw this today Ptarmy.  This happened in Cleveland!  Can you believe that shit??

I was in Cleveland with my son at the Army recruiters office yesterday.  Jeeze that is one screwed up little town.

KC

I know. So unthinkable. Now, it has become racial because the victim is Hispanic and all the rapists are Black.

[Texacon]

I know. So unthinkable. Now, it has become racial because the victim is Hispanic and all the rapists are Black.

Quanell X (why would he want to be the 10th Quanell is beyond me) is supposed to have some kind of meeting there.  He's convinced himself that there must have been at least ONE white boy who partook as well.

He's a shitbag.

When we played them (football) this year they knew we were going to beat them and there was a threat of a knifing.  There were cops everywhere.  It was messed up.  AND I know the superintendent there.  He's got a tough job.

KC

[cavegal]

Gang Rape of 11-Year-Old Girl Sparks Racial Tensions in Texas Town

http://abcnews.go.com/US/gang-rape-charges-18-men-sparks-racial-tensions/story?id=13095476

The alleged gang rape of an 11-year-old girl by at least 18 boys and young men has sparked shame and outrage in a tiny Texas town, but it has also stirred racial tensions that threaten to split the East Texas hamlet.  All of the defendants arrested are African-American and the girl is Hispanic.

The hardscrabble town of Cleveland, which is 45 miles from Houston, has fewer than 8,000 residents and since the saw mill closed the biggest employers are Wal-Mart and a nearby prison. In a town this small, everyone is a neighbor, but that small town ambience is being severely strained.

more from the article...

just unreal at times the human race ....

Dickerson remembers when her great-grandson called to tell her the crime he's accused of committing.

"When I got on the phone, he was crying. He said, 'Granny, I've been accused of something. I'm scared,'" Dickerson said. "He's pretty tore up about it."

[/b] Yet the poor child????????????????? **** these people the ones accused of doing this should be at room temp right now.

[JohnnyReb]

"When I got on the phone, he was crying. He said, 'Granny, I've been accused of something. I'm scared,'" Dickerson said. "He's pretty tore up about it."

Yep. Grandmaw's que to get on TV and cry, whine and scream, "He be a good boy. ...he innocent....innocent I tell you... that girl be a lying ho. He didn't do it."

[Ptarmigan]

"When I got on the phone, he was crying. He said, 'Granny, I've been accused of something. I'm scared,'" Dickerson said. "He's pretty tore up about it."

Yep. Grandmaw's que to get on TV and cry, whine and scream, "He be a good boy. ...he innocent....innocent I tell you... that girl be a lying ho. He didn't do it."

I remembering this crap with Jeffrey Dahmer, Dylan Klebold, 9/11 Terrorists, and Sharon Chanon Velazquez (South Hadley 6).

[MP_Sarge]

I think I'll hold my tongue for a bit.

It was horrible what the Lacrosse players did, too.

Except... it turned out they didn't do anything.

No one can find the videos now, it seems.
I'll wait until there's actually a trial.  What with that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing.

[Texacon]

"When I got on the phone, he was crying. He said, 'Granny, I've been accused of something. I'm scared,'" Dickerson said. "He's pretty tore up about it."

Yep. Grandmaw's que to get on TV and cry, whine and scream, "He be a good boy. ...he innocent....innocent I tell you... that girl be a lying ho. He didn't do it."

Actually JR on the TV interview Granny was saying she didn't want to believe it but she wasn't sure and would wait to find out if it was true.  She seemed to be open to the idea that it may have happened the way it is being portrayed.

KC

[Texacon]

I think I'll hold my tongue for a bit.

It was horrible what the Lacrosse players did, too.

Except... it turned out they didn't do anything.

No one can find the videos now, it seems.
I'll wait until there's actually a trial.  What with that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing.

The cops have cell phone videos that have been flying around the school.  That's how they started rounding them up.  At least that is what was on the news last night.

KC

[IassaFTots]

The cops have cell phone videos that have been flying around the school.  That's how they started rounding them up.  At least that is what was on the news last night.

KC

Damn. 

[Texacon]

Damn. 

Yeah.  It's ugly.  You've got some of them trying to say it was consensual.  An 11 year old.  Consensual.  They think that will make it all better.

The girl has said they wouldn't let her leave and would do nasty things to her and her family if she didn't 'perform'. 

   It wouldn't even matter if she were caught lying!  Stupid, stupid, stupid!

KC

[cavegal]

Some in Texas town blaming young girl in assault
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7467292.html

The activist, who was invited to speak by a local pastor, said he was concerned that only young black men had been arrested. He said he believed some of those arrested were guilty but that others were not. He told those in attendance that if they were questioned by police about the case that they should only talk to police with a lawyer present.

During the meeting, Quanell X also asked people to donate money to the defense funds for two of those arrested in the case.

After the meeting, many in attendance told reporters that the girl had consented to the sex.

"She lied about her age. Them boys didn't rape her. She wanted this to happen. I'm not taking nobody's side, but if she hadn't put herself in that predicament, this would have never happened," said Angie Woods, who lives in Houston but grew up in Cleveland.

[MP_Sarge]

Tawana Brawley.

[Rebel]

Tawana Brawley.

Yeah, I'm thinking no. This has nothing to do with Brawley or any other shit made up by people like Sharpton.




A lurid cell phone video circulated among students in a small Texas town has led to the arrests of 18 people, including high school athletes and adults, accused of sexually assaulting an 11 year-old girl during a series of attacks last year.

[MP_Sarge]

School district authorities were not able to recover any cell phones that had video of the alleged attack...

Can someone cite a source saying that the video was recovered by police?

[NHSparky]

Probably all over the Innerwebz by now, poor child.

Hope all these little miscreants get the max.

[MP_Sarge]

Probably all over the Innerwebz by now, poor child.

Hope all these little miscreants get the max.

Nope.  I can't find a single source saying the video has been recovered.
Does anyone have a reliable source stating so?

[Texacon]

CLEVELAND - All Maria wanted was to see her 11-year-old daughter.

Weeks ago, the girl had been hushed away to a "safe house" for her own protection - after the phone calls started, and the disturbing, sexually explicit videos began surfacing in this town of 9,000 about 50 miles north of downtown Houston.

Local officials say the attack has devastated this close-knit community, leaving many to wonder who will be charged next. There's talk that a star athlete at Cleveland High School was seen sexually assaulting the girl on the video. The son of a local school board member is involved, too.

As the men had sex with the girl, others used their cell phones to take photographs and video, police said.

Over the next two days, the recordings went viral around school. One student who recognized the girl and several of the young men, including star athletes, in the videos, alerted school authorities and triggered the investigation.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/7459716.html

That's a different story than I read but this one should confirm it.

KC

[Texacon]

The investigation started after videos and photos that onlookers took with their cell phones of the sexual assault over the Thanksgiving day holiday went viral around the community and schools.

Paula Barron, director of Bridgehaven Advocacy Center, which interviewed the victim of the rapes, warned those who circulated cellphone images of the 11-year-old's assault can be charged with possessing child pornography.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7466774.html

KC

[bijou]

The New York Times' Rape-Friendly Reporting

— By Mac McClelland
| Wed Mar. 9, 2011 11:25 AM PST

From today's New York Times:

    The police investigation began shortly after Thanksgiving, when an elementary school student alerted a teacher to a lurid cellphone video that included one of her classmates.

    The video led the police to an abandoned trailer, more evidence and, eventually, to a roundup over the last month of 18 young men and teenage boys on charges of participating in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in the abandoned trailer home, the authorities said.

This story from Cleveland, Texas, is beyond horrifying. Obviously. Unfortunately, further injustices have now been heaped on the victim (and the movement to end rape culture) by the article's writer and editor.

"Gang Rape of Schoolgirl, and Arrests, Shake Texas Town," the Times article covering the atrocities, is a collection of one perpetrator-excusing, victim-blaming insult after another. It starts right after the lede and some further information about the suspects, who include middle schoolers and a 27-year-old. Then:

    The case has rocked this East Texas community to its core and left many residents in the working-class neighborhood where the attack took place with unanswered questions. Among them is, if the allegations are proved, how could their young men have been drawn into such an act? [Italics mine.]

Hmm. My editors let me get away with passive voice, too, but in this case it seems inappropriate, as does the peculiar verb choice, which gives the suspects a little bit of a pass. If the allegations are proved, then the young men of Cleveland, Texas, committed these dreadful acts. However, by the story's semantics, they didn't allegedly do anything. They were coerced into it by some unnamed influence or entity.

But okay, maybe how 18 young men were allegedly drawn into gang-raping a child is truly the question on Clevelanders' minds. The article was written by a reporter, not a pundit, so perhaps it can't be helped that some of the reported content is wildly insensitive. For example: ...

http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2011/03/new-york-times-texas-rape

Was just searching on this story and found an interesting take on the NYT report.

[MP_Sarge]

Works for me.