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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]polly7
(20,582 posts)19. I believe that all four of them would have known.
They passed around a child, it's not possible that none of them looked into her age. jmo.
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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