"You said 'rape' twice."
Posted on 10/08/2009 8:11:24 AM PDT by meandog
Man pleads guilty to raping preteen girl
BY KEITH EPPS
A Spotsylvania man yesterday admitted that he raped a preteen girl earlier this year.
Richard Eugene Smith Jr., 38, pleaded guilty to rape in Spotsylvania Circuit Court. He faces the possibility of life in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 2.
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutor Amy Harper dropped a second rape charge against Smith.
According to the evidence presented by Harper, Smith had sexual relations with the 12-year-old girl twice between June 1 and July 22.
The second incident ended when the girl's mother walked into the child's bedroom and saw Smith molesting her daughter.
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Smith left the home, but deputies found him a short time later. He told police that he made a "stupid mistake" and that the child started the incident by "coming on" to him....
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Even if this scumbag is saying that he was lured into it, you still have to have some kind of underlying sickness to do it.
That’s not “rape-rape.”
/extreme sarc.
I find it amazing this man can sit in court & blame the victim. I agree he does need to be removed from this earth asap. Too bad it won’t happen.
"You said 'rape' twice."
I'm with you on that. It's mind boggling how these little kids dress. Even if she did come on to him, the correct response should have been to drag her into her mama and have mama give her a good spanking....... oops, can't have spankings now days so it's best to let them act like sluts.
While that was the case in the past, today they don't care. Today's prisoners are all about what gang you side with, not what you did on the outside.
Not that a marriage certificate would have helped. Come to think of it, it might have made matters worse.
I wonder whether she will become an executive producer for the Letterman show?
Dick, if she’d told you to jump off a cliff, would you have done it?
Agreed.
No doubt that girls of that age are going to experiment with their “wiles” but it stretches credulity that it would be on an adult male who is 38 years old. I would be more understanding if he was 18, maybe 20 years old max.
Let him sit in jail for 15 years and think about his decision.
If fifteen will get you twenty, twelve should get you thirty!
I am in no way condoning what this guy did. But I have a friend who teaches this age group. He said the girls are very aggressive and flirty for their age. Some of his stories would make your jaw drop. Just another reason why we homeschool.
I have a VERY hard time believing that to be true. While early onset of puberty may trigger earlier sexual activity, I see no way the opposite can happen.
I say that as the mother of an 11 year old daughter who has physically developed far earlier than I did. I have girls ranging in age from 6-14 in and out of my house on a regular basis, and some of those girls have bodies that many 18 years olds would die for. Heck, I'm 49 and I never had a body like some of them have. SIGH :(
The sad thing is, they are still little girls, but because of how they look they are not taken for what they really are.
They still love to play dress up, and my stash of cocktail dresses and evening gowns are among their favorites (another mom, with a similar collection is another fave.) It's fun for them because they are still little girls and want to play princess. They also know that they can have their fashion shows and put on makeup, but they do it in the house and all makeup is removed before they get ready to leave or even go outside to play.
I don't know why these girls are developing so early, but it is up to the parents to teach them what they need to know, but also to remember that regardless of what they look like, they are still children and need to be treated and protected as such.
Marriage is no guarantee that a second husband won’t molest your daughter but it is not a guarantee that your daughter will not be molested by her own father either.
I have no source other than my own experience, but I believe that marriage would indicate more commitment to the relationship and therefore to the standards of behavior inherent in marriage.
A man that is not willing to marry you or is opposed to marriage period is more likely to lack the morals that would prevent his molesting your daughter.
So where was DAD? A trial and prison would be the LEAST of this guy’s worries if this were my daughter!
Well, I've taught this age group and I found most girls to be very shy. However, I will admit that I cannot understand why their moms allow some of them to come to school dressed as they are. A lot of my students already had ears pierced (some with other body parts pierced--nose, eyebrows, etc.). And the mode of dress that some wore can only be described as "slutty redneck" (i.e. skin-tight jeans, blouses that expose part of stomach area and others too low cut). But that's today's public school system for you.
Maybe it is.....unless you're talking about blowing him away. That would feel good.
Well, he was an available male in the house, who wasn’t her father.
NO excuse for him though. Just that I was shocked when my daughter was in middle school to see what the 12-year-olds were wearing, and how they would talk about having sex with older men and getting pregnant, and how good that would be for them. Several were in fact pregnant.
Most of this seemed to be among the hispanic population, although blacks were involved as well. I didn’t see it as much among the white population, a lot of whom did not live in the school district but were brought in by bus for specialty programs aimed at raising the schools overall acheivement levels.
A mother has to be extremely careful when allowing a male into her house on a regular basis.
Was it rape-rape?
There was a case a few years back where a man made the same claim about a two year old child - that she had “come on to him”. I think she died from the rape.
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