Rape charges filed against two 8 yr olds and a 9 yr old...

[SoCalDem]

the girl was 11.. CNN reported a while ago that they may charge the boys as adults...

I do NOT condone the behavior, but :wtf: is wrong with

a) kids
b) parents
c) justice system
d) all of the above


http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=4741a9e08737b517&ei=HOBBR9K2MonK-gHI08iJCw&url=http%3A//ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gv7OiTwO23-4YemHHQnw28pV7YJwD8T0SUPG0&cid=1123824935&sig2=Tf0TWSeYk8BSkdMrP79z6g


Ga. Boys Ages 8 and 9 Charged With Rape

By SHANNON McCAFFREY – 1 hour ago

ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) — Three boys, ages 8 and 9, were being held Monday in a detention center on charges of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl near a suburban apartment complex, officials said.

The alleged attack happened Thursday and the girl's mother reported it to authorities Sunday, Acworth police Capt. Wayne Dennard said. "The victim said they were playing outdoors and the girl was forced into a wooded area where she was sexually assaulted, where one of the boys raped her," Dennard told The Associated Press.

The three boys — an 8-year-old and two 9-year-olds — were charged with rape, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual assault, Dennard said. They were due in juvenile court Monday afternoon. Their names were being withheld because of their age.

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Acworth Police Chief Mike Wilkie said said one of the boys was accused of threatening to hit the girl with a rock before the alleged assault. Wilkie also said the investigation is "far from over," and investigators are looking into claims that after the alleged attack, the girl talked about it with her friends at a slumber party. The father of the 8-year-old boy said his son had been falsely accused and had not had sex with the girl.

The sexual activity was consensual, and the girl accused her playmates only after her parents had learned she had sex, said the father, Brandon LeBlanc. "There was no violence involved," LeBlanc said. "This is a clear case of a girl who didn't want to get in trouble with her parents." He added, "In order to save her hide, she tried to blame it on rape."

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Prosecutors had not received the case report from police on Monday, nor had they decided whether to try the suspects as adults. "That decision hasn't been made," said Kathy Watkins, a spokeswoman for the Cobb County District Attorney's office. She had no further comment.

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[book_worm]

1. It would be interesting to know the details

[SoCalDem]

2. sorry.. i forgot the link.. it's there nowe

:P

[book_worm]

6. Thanks

[Lonebear]

25. Maybe the facts

I live in the area and a niece live very near the complex. I would not swear by this but the talk in the neighborhood is that none of these kids are bad. The boys are pretty much your normal kids. The girl was not a slut but she was curious. It was probably a case of her going in the woods with some younger boys that she did not feel threatened by, to experiment a little. It might have gone a little farther than she planned or not. It happened on Thursday, she even told a friend or two and she went till Sunday when somehow her parents found out. To get out of trouble she cried Rape, never thinking that it would cause such a stir.

Double standard wise, consider if the 11 year old had been a boy and the 8 and 9 year olds had been girls. Then it would be the older one accused.

I hate to tell you but look at the media. Slick Willy making it necessary to tell our 8 year olds what oral sex was didn’t help. None of our kids, boys or girls, are innocent. I was at home with a friend in another, richer part of Atlanta. His 2nd grade son came home crying. Two fourth grade girls had taken him in the girls room after school and tried to perform oral sex on him. The school administration would not believe it or do anything. That’s what our society has done to our once innocent kids.

[LostinVA]

26. Oh brother -- the Slick Willy add was a nice touch

God, I hate it when Liberty University is on break...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. A significant portion of young children play "doctor"

i.e. explore sexuality with each other, and so on.

A small percentage of those actually leads to intercourse, according to the Kinsey studies of some fifty years ago.

A significant portion of children bully each other.

So it seems common sense would dictate that in exceptionally rare cases you'd have incidents where the bullying and "playing doctor" would coincide, and you'd end up with a case of rape on your hands.

So as unfortunate as this is, what disturbs me is the idea that anybody would want to charge 8 and 9 year old kids as adults.

[SoCalDem]

5. Me too..

an 11 year old girl is USUALLY far more mature than a couple of 8 yr olds and a 9 yr old boy.. but they are all peers and sex play is normal for kids that age,.no matter how distressing it is for parents to think about..

It would seem to me that psychologists would be the way to go instead of courts & jails

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. It really doesn't make any sense.

An eleven year old is not of sound mind to give consent to sex, how can an eight year old be considered of sound mind to be held responsible for rape?

[MindPilot]

4. How is it even possible for kids that young to commit sex crimes?

And if they are going to be accused of an adult crime and charged as such, then they had best be able to vote, drive, drink, and buy a house.

[SoCalDem]

7. or have their permanent teeth..n/t

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[NanceGreggs]

9. Anyone who is now even discussing ...

... charging these kids as adults should be fired immediately.

If you can't tell the difference between an 8- or 9-year-old and an adult, you obviously lack the intelligence and maturity for any job beyond mopping floors or picking up litter.

Jesus wept.

[riverdeep]

10. Who knows what the hell happened.

But this is a serious charge that needs to be followed through. If it is rape, look to the parents, there is probably some stuff going down, and that may be why the father is trying to brush it off. Just the amateur detective in me, I guess.

But charging an 8 year old as an adult? It sort of makes the juvenile category irrelevant, doesn't it?

[rodeodance]

12. i gotta wonder who the adults are in cases like this!!

[breakaleg]

13. I have a 10 year old boy and this is beyond my understanding.

Aside from the fact that he has no clue what sex is or how to do it, I don't think he's physically capable.

[SoCalDem]

16. Better have a talk with him ..TONIGHT..

We were never "graphic" at that age, but we told our boys that ANY part of the body that would be covered by underwear or a bathing suit was OFF LIMITS to anyone but THAT person and their doctor..NO EXCEPTIONS.. no one touches THEM there and they don't touch anyone else there..

Even little kids can understand that..

[breakaleg]

17. I have had that talk with him since he was 4 and this he understands.

He's completely clueless in certain ways I won't go into though, and that's what makes it hard to understand the op.

[Catherine Vincent]

14. Kids play doctor all the time.

Just yesterday I almost caught my 5 year old niece and 4 year old nephew doing something. I didn't see anything but they were both in the bathroom doing mischief and when I knocked on the door, I heard little footsteps (my nephew) run to the other room (bathroom has two entrances). My niece was pretending she was using the bathroom. The rest of us was in the family room and we all thought they were in the back playing with toys.

[Dr.Phool]

18. When my younger sisters were about 8 years old,

The wanted to play doctor. We caught them right before they started operating on the cat.

[SoCalDem]

24. Was the cat's name "Lucky"?

should'a been :rofl:

[Clark2008]

15. I have an 8 year old boy and he's more interested in sports than sex.

In fact, he's not interested in sex at all. He still thinks girls have cooties and kissing is yucky.

Isn't that how little boys are SUPPOSED to act at 8 years old?

:shrug:

[Quantess]

19. Yes.

Rape is usually more an act of aggression than a sexual act, though.
I wonder if the boys had gotten the idea after they had seen some violent movies, or maybe some bad role models at home...?

Definitely not normal behavior at all! Scary.

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[MissB]

20. As a parent of an 8 yo and 9 yo (both boys)

I am stunned. I guess my kids are just really immature or something. :shrug: They would never conceive of such an act of violence against a girl.

[aikoaiko]

21. Somehow, I think this case is going to get uglier than it is.

I'm waiting for more information before I start judging.

[JVS]

22. Trial as adult for kids that young is inappropriate.

As for the rest. WTF!