Posted on 04/27/2018 12:04:31 PM PDT by BBell
Three U.S. Marines were arrested and booked in New Orleans Thursday and Friday (April 27) on rape charges, after two women reported to police that they were raped by a group of men earlier this month.
Antonio Landrum, 18, was booked with third-degree rape, Jared Anderson, 18, was booked with first-degree rape, and Alexander Davenport, 20, was booked with two counts of first-degree rape, according to court records.
The suspected rapes occurred April 15 at one of the women's homes in the 6100 block of South Claiborne Avenue, according to police. A Tulane University campus alert sent out shortly after the crimes were reported said the women were a Tulane student and her "guest."
The two women were at a bar in the 1000 block of Broadway Street on April 14 when they became "highly intoxicated," according to police and affidavits for the men's arrest warrants. Video surveillance from the bar showed one of the women stumbling, appearing to be "moderately intoxicated/impaired," while the other woman fell on the ground and was "highly intoxicated/impaired," the warrant affidavit says.
One of the women said she remembered leaving the bar and going back home with her friend and a man, who police identified as Landrum.
Landrum had sex with both of the women, according to the warrant affidavits. Some parts of the court documents describe the sex as "consensual," but the documents also say that Landrum "forced" sex with the women, that one of them asked him to stop but he didn't, and that she shoved him away.
According to the warrant documents, Landrum then invited three male friends to the home.
One of the women said one of the men who arrived, identified by the victim in a later photo lineup as Davenport,
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Don’t get drunk out of your mind and invite marines home to your crib unless you want to partay! Sorry ladies but that’s kind of the way it goes.
We will see what the Orleans Parish jury decides.
People who are falling down drunk may not be in the position to give legal consent; they’re considered impaired. Unless they’re call girls, (and even call girls can change their minds and say “no”) they may well have a case. The surveillance footage may just sink those guys. I have a lot of respect for those who serve in the military, but they’re not all innocent. Only those involved know if they are guilty as charged, but even if not, they sure are guilty of being stupid. Just ask Bill Cosby.
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Considering sex with a woman who has had a few drinks to be rape is a relatively recent idea. I'm not talking about "passed out unconscious drunk" sex. I'm talking about "had a few drinks and she's eager to go" sex.
Was there any actual evidence that anybody slipped drugs into the women's drinks?
Nowhere in the article do I see any indication that any of the men drugged any woman. Obviously, secretly drugging a woman is in the classic criminal definition of rape.
On the other hand, she should shoulder some responsibility for what she chooses to do to herself. My attitude (check out my prior posts up-thread) is that it's a bad idea to get drunk, or otherwise deliberately render yourself incapable of acting with good judgement. Do you disagree?
OK, let me summarize for you. The current approach of trying to get drunken men to not have drunken sex with drunken women is not working, and will not work.
As a father, I’ve decided that it makes more sense to tell my daughters “Don’t do stupid stuff. Don’t get drunk in bars.” than to engage in a futile quest to try to ensure that drunk men won’t take advantage. A girl who engages in drunk sex with a guy, and then in the morning decides it was a bad decision, is not helped by telling her “You poor dear. He took advantage of you! We will punish him for you!”, because that means she will do it again.
Conversely, telling her “You idiot! Did you really think that getting soused among strangers in a bar was going to have a fairy-tale happy ending? Don’t do stupid stuff like that!” might have the effect of getting her to not keep doing stupid stuff. It might save her from drunkenly going home with a serial killer.
Yes, it should, in theory, be safe for a girl to get falling down drunk in a bar full of strangers. Just like it should be safe for her pull over in her car on Martin Luther King Blvd to withdraw a few hundred bucks from an ATM at 3am. But, both actions are exceptionally stupid things to do, and it doesn’t do women any favors to tell them they aren’t.
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