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Student in jail for drugs is raped
Gainesville Sun (FL) ^
| June 10. 2003
| Kathy Ciotola
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.
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To: robertpaulsen
I can only imagine what you would do to your children then.
81
posted on
06/10/2003 10:17:53 AM PDT
by
KEVLAR
To: xrp; robertpaulsen
Nice Clintonism, it's always someone else's fault, right?Clearly, the village is to blame..
82
posted on
06/10/2003 10:18:02 AM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: fml
No. But if he wasn't busted he wouldn't be raped, now would he.
If he hadn't been born he wouldn't be raped. If he had caught on fire a year before he wouldn't have been raped. If he had no orifices he wouldn't have been raped.
The issue is the rape. Not the situation of the victim that made him available to the rapist.
83
posted on
06/10/2003 10:18:04 AM PDT
by
Arkinsaw
To: bird4four4
"He had no problem doing the time. It was the d**k up his @$$ that he had a problem with."
That would be a problem with doing the time. At least, for most people that would be a problem.
To: xrp; Age of Reason; Mr. Mojo
Don't be silly prison is not a playground. Most people go through their entire lives without spending any time in prison. With all the violence and terror reaped on people who never do anything at who end up in the position of being a victim and you all want to give me a hard time because some poor schmuck, "deliverying" dope paid a higher price than he bargined for. Yeah, I'm guessing there are some innocent men behing bars (men, because that's what seems to be bugging you, not woman raped in prinon) but get real, no too many.
85
posted on
06/10/2003 10:18:22 AM PDT
by
fml
To: fml
No. But if he wasn't busted he wouldn't be raped, now would he.So now it's dependent on whether or not he gets caught?
86
posted on
06/10/2003 10:19:45 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(...and Freedom tastes of Reality.)
To: AntiGuv
someone got raped.. So the anti-government fanatics should take up their hyperbolic "rape camp" chant again?
87
posted on
06/10/2003 10:20:26 AM PDT
by
Roscoe
To: RaceBannon
You still believe in execution for marijuana sellers, right Race?
To: Roscoe
Would that make you a pro government fanatic?
Whats your chant?
89
posted on
06/10/2003 10:22:05 AM PDT
by
KEVLAR
To: RaceBannon
I had been back from a year in Vietnam for about a week when I took my old MG Sprite out for a drive. I got stopped by a Los Gatos PD for doing a little < 10 miles over the speed limit in a well known notorious speed trap. The cop ran my tags an came back to say that I had 14 unpaid parking tickets ... all written while I was in Nam .. I can only guess that my sweet dear ex-wife ran them up while I was gone. He arrested me and I spent the night in jail ... should I have been raped too. After all if I had the common sense not to get parking tickets in Los Gatos while I was in Vietnam I would never have gone to jail ... as a first offender. BTW the judge dismissed ALL of the tickets.
90
posted on
06/10/2003 10:22:22 AM PDT
by
clamper1797
(Per caritate viduaribus orphanibusque sed prime viduaribus)
To: Roscoe
Check out this thread:
Male Rape In U.S. Prisons.
Not that your presence is likely desired in that thread.. In fact, without you intellectually unstable drug warriors descending there, it's a rather sane discussion thus far..
91
posted on
06/10/2003 10:22:37 AM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: Roscoe
The term anti-government fanatics is not hyperbolic?
92
posted on
06/10/2003 10:22:41 AM PDT
by
jmc813
(After two years of FReeping, I've finally created a profile page. Check it out!)
To: Zevonismymuse
Whether marijuana SHOULD be legal or not, the simple fact is, marijuana is NOT legal. This means that the boy SHOULD expect some penalty for getting caught doing something he KNEW was illegal. OTOH, the penalty was supposed to be a few weekends behind bars, not a weekend of getting homosexually raped.
But, Matthew Shepard didn't plan on dying tied to a fence, either. Sometimes the penalty for doing something stoopid is more severe than it seems like it should be. I've been blessed. I've done some very stupid things, and have never had to pay the full price of my deeds.
To: DuncanWaring
-So now it's dependent on whether or not he gets caught? -
__________________
What are you talking about? If he didn't get caught, he wouldn't be there.
94
posted on
06/10/2003 10:22:53 AM PDT
by
fml
To: fml
I'm guessing there are some innocent men behing bars (men, because that's what seems to be bugging you, not woman raped in prinon) but get real, no too many. Where did I or anyone else say that we're not concerned with the rape of women in prison? Why would you just assume this? Do us a favor .....don't put words in our mouths. And secondly, what really concerns me is that the American people are being incarcerated for consensual "crimes." ....not unlike, as I mentioned earlier on this thread, Saudi Arabia.
95
posted on
06/10/2003 10:22:57 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: xrp
"be more pissed at your children for requesting that type of product"Are you defending this low-life scum-sucking degenerate drug dealer who would sell drugs to my children?
Oh, robertpaulsen, he's just a businessman meeting a need. It's your children who are more at fault.
I don't know who's worse, drug dealers or those who defend them. It's real close.
To: KEVLAR
Would that make you a pro government fanatic?I'm not gonna touch that one.
97
posted on
06/10/2003 10:23:34 AM PDT
by
jmc813
(After two years of FReeping, I've finally created a profile page. Check it out!)
To: jmc813
took offense to the term "government rape camp" last week. How coy.
98
posted on
06/10/2003 10:24:13 AM PDT
by
Roscoe
Comment #99 Removed by Moderator
To: SpaceBar; MrLeRoy
analy = anally
Sorry, don't mean to be retentive.
PS: If you're being sarcastic, be sure to include [sarcasm] somewhere.
100
posted on
06/10/2003 10:24:23 AM PDT
by
SquirrelKing
(Mad enough to eat BB's and crap ten-penny nails.)
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