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In reply to the discussion: Kentucky trooper wants job back because raping that girl was just a ‘moral mistake’ [View all]olddad56
(5,732 posts)12. Is it wrong to do something like that? It was in Kentucky, they may have even been related.
and, after all, he has gotten right with his family. Those judges are just sticklers for regulations.
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Kentucky trooper wants job back because raping that girl was just a ‘moral mistake’ [View all]
DonViejo
Feb 2014
OP
I bet when he pulled someone over and they used the "I didn't intend" line, he'd ticket them. nt
TheBlackAdder
Feb 2014
#3
The "moral mistake" might actually lie within the community allowing him to make his plea n/t
bkanderson76
Feb 2014
#4
FWIW, that Fullerton cop who was acquitted of killing a homeless man (on camera, no less)
Blue_Tires
Feb 2014
#23
I'm thinking she couldn't drive so surely that came up a time or two. How did she get places? nt
okaawhatever
Feb 2014
#24
But, but, but he's 'made it right with' his family and he hasn't compromised himself, he says.
Shrike47
Feb 2014
#8
No sense of shame or anything. Intitledto do anything they could get away with. Where do they....
marble falls
Feb 2014
#9
He says his family's worked through this. There's a weird cop dynamic here, they knew what ....
marble falls
Feb 2014
#17
But, it could happen again, that's why you were fired. 50 years in prison would be about right
SDjack
Feb 2014
#10
Is it wrong to do something like that? It was in Kentucky, they may have even been related.
olddad56
Feb 2014
#12
Yes exactly. If one has sex with someone who is too young to consent, one is committing rape.
Squinch
Feb 2014
#37
Going after a 15 year old is just not enough like rape for you? You want it to be different?
Ohio Joe
Feb 2014
#34
No... I'm really not very interested in how you justify going after 15 year olds as not rape
Ohio Joe
Feb 2014
#38
Is statutory rape not rapey enough for you? Or can you not contemplate that the absence of the
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#47
Yep. He just turned around, and all of a sudden, he (and three of his cop buddies)
Volaris
Mar 2021
#50
Was he charged? If not, why not? That's what I'd like to know. A conviction would presumably
silvershadow
Feb 2014
#28