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.
WRONG!!!
Exactly my point. The poster to whom I responded claimed we should conveniently ignore the original crime and concentrate on the fact that the kid would've been raped even if [say] he murdered someone. But it's impossible to ignore the fact that a kid who committed a "consensual crime" was housed with a violent felon who was arrested on sexual battery charges.
That would explain why the sheriff's department is confirming the story.
It most certainly can. If he'd been doing weekend time for burglary or parking tickets, he'd probably still have been raped, yet this article would not have been posted.
The only reason we're even talking about it is because of the strained attempt to turn this crime into an argument against the WOD. It doesn't work.
OTOH, it does bring to mind that famous SNL skit about "Paraquat-Related Deaths."
It seems crystal clear to me. I would suggest you pick up any stylebook and consult the section on predication..
I'm in, put me on it please.
Exactly. NYT and Wash compost "journalism" in action.
They know that I would be very disappointed in them if they did. Will that be enough? Time will tell.
Okay, then, how can anyone be arrested and held before trial? The Constituition clearly contemplates pretrial confinement, in its prohibition on excess bail.
Except he was doing time for marijuana-related charges, not burglary or parking tickets. I might add, the prison time was spent in a cell with a violent offender.(Incidentally, housing someone with outstanding parking tickets with a violent felon would be equally as wrong.)
IMHO, trying to ignore the reason he was in that situation to begin with is a dishonest attempt to evade a critical piece of the argument, that is, should he ever have been put in that situation?
It most certainly can. If he'd been doing weekend time for burglary or parking tickets, he'd probably still have been raped, yet this article would not have been posted.
I wonder what the reaction would be to someone raped in jail who is serving time for illegally smoking tobacco in a restaurant?
Just how curious are you? Wanna try selling drugs to my children and find out?
I'll take a chance on a jury of my peers.
So therefore, if people are routinely raped in a government institution it is then a "government rape center". QED.
Oh, I'm sorry about that. I didn't mean to interfere in your double standard. I must just be begging the question again.
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