Posted on 06/10/2003 9:37:44 AM PDT by MrLeRoy
An Alachua County college student in jail on marijuana charges was raped over the weekend by his cell mate, a man already being held on sexual battery charges, authorities said Monday.
The 19-year-old student was serving four weekends in jail on charges of delivering marijuana, said Alachua County Sheriff's Sgt. Jim Troiano. Last weekend was the first weekend of his sentence.
His cell mate held a ballpoint pen to the teenager's neck at about 9 p.m. Friday and then forced himself on him, Troiano said. A member of the victim's family reported the incident to authorities on Saturday.
Jail detention officers, who check the cells at least once an hour, heard nothing and nothing was reported to them Friday, Troiano said.
Randolph Jackson, 35, was charged with sexual battery. Jackson has been in jail since July on charges of sexual battery in a different case that is still pending.
The two were put in a cell together because they were both charged with felonies, Troiano said. Also, there was very little room in the jail last weekend, Troiano added. There were 918 inmates and the jail's capacity is 920.
"If there was space available, absolutely we would rather keep our weekenders in a pre-designated area," Troiano said. "But because we don't have much space available we have to do with circumstances on hand."
Inmates are assigned to cells based on their charges, their history and other factors, he said.
These two inmates were being held in a two-man cell in pod 1-B. Inmates who are awaiting trial or who don't yet have a jail classification are kept in this section, Troiano said.
Jail officials don't house inmates who are charged with misdemeanors, which are less serious crimes, with those who have felony charges, he said.
Troiano said this was the first sexual battery reported at the jail in the memory of jail officials.
Jackson never showed any signs of having sexual tendencies toward other inmates, Troiano added. He has since been moved to his own cell.
It's pretty clear to any intelligent reader that new sexual battery charges were brought against Jackson as a result of this episode.
Many people are falsely arrested due to a number of mistakes or honest reasons. Should they be subject to this type of treatment? What about those being held without bail before trial? Should they too be subject to this brutal treatment?
This kid will own that county. Bet the rent.
I'm asking what you would do to a 19-year-old who has sex with your 11-year-old. Have his parents talk to him like you advised me?
Huh, I guess to you that people being in jail and not having a TV and a palatial bathroom is not Constitutional.
Jail is jail and it isn't supposed to be a vacation.
I will now wait for the plethora of Libertarian replies forthcoming that will wish me that I will be raped in jail for being in jail on the basis of the Libertarian tin foil theory of having a hangnail.
He was convicted of "delivering."
Florida Statutes, Title XLVI, 893.02 (5) "Deliver" or "delivery" means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer from one person to another of a controlled substance, whether or not there is an agency relationship.
You lose.
First of all, I am not your "dude"... Secondly:
Randolph Jackson, 35, was charged with sexual battery. Jackson has been in jail since July on charges of sexual battery in a different case that is still pending.
Clearly, Randolph Jackson was charged with sexual battery as a result of this incident, having already been incarcerated due to a previous sexual battery charge. I'd suggest you work on your own verbal comprehension skills before you hand out advice..
Better to have a road full of pot smokers than drunks. Ask any cop who has had to deal with drunks, who is more dangerous. It's like comparing Tony Snow to Mike Tyson.
Kinda like St. Harry Anslinger's sick fixation about black jazz musicians banging white women, whose sentiments modern-day Drug Warriors like yourself continue to echo.
It seems Dane is being anally raped whenever he is not on vacation.
IOW, if I'm against jailhouse rape I must be in favor of palatial bathrooms and TVs? I'll take your [intentional] logical fallacy as an indication that I've won this argument.
Ah. So you're one of those who believe in the "she asked for it" scenario. The adult is not at fault because the child asked for it.
You may want to rethink that philosophy before you get yourself in series trouble.
Libertine boogieman.
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