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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The story didn’t mention it, but you also have to wonder if the girl simply didn’t like the guy being with her mother, and wanted to get rid of him.
I’m pretty sure there’s been a movie with that type of plot.
Hey I did think about blowing him away. It would make me feel better.
I have an idea. Much cheaper than years in prison.
Shoot them out of a cannon over the Grand Canyon... if they manage to survive and can crawl back out of the canyon, they get a pass. lol.
Studies have shown (I know, those words ...) that exposure to sexually-explicit media and sexual behavior is *one* factor in *some* instances of earlier onset of puberty. There's also a correlation with the residence of non-family-member males in the household (e.g., Mom's latest sex partner). There was some discussion of a hormonal mechanism; that is, actual causation rather than simply correlation.
The book that detailed all this, with footnotes, is called "Early Puberty," iirc, and it also observed that *weight* is the major factor in the lower average age of puberty.
The latest theory I have read to explain the earlier onset of puberty are;
Better nutrition and less exercise.
A higher percentage of body fat in young girls leads to an earlier onset of puberty. Less exercise by today’s girls leads to the girls carrying extra body fat. Estrogen is fat soluble which means that the girl bodies retain more estrogen than they would if they carried less fat.
Athletic girls (such as swimmers and gymnast) tend to enter puberty later. This is attributed to their lower body fat.
Can't these sick puppies scrape up $50 to get laid by a professional?
Nothing the child did would justify a man raping her.
But I told my sister boys and girls (we had one each) alike these days wear thing on street I would not let mine sleep in....its scary. Parent need to be parent not friends to there kids...ie teach them right from wrong the what NO means. Kids are running the home now not parents. God help us all.....I feel for the good parent today.
This woman has zero self-esteem and has had two marriages/divorces in her life. She blames herself for the incident and contemplates suicide daily, hoping she will die in her sleep.
Do you think she enticed the molester?
depends on if he's in the general population, or not.
Time served will be a few days longer than it takes for the rest of the inmates to find out what he's in for.
Well maybe he was only talking about a minority of them being flirty. But he did also mention the style of dress as you do.
“I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, conmen, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers and Methodists!”
As if those girls' families had nothing to do with it, right?
Absolutely not. Even if she was flirtatous the man has to be the adult here and walk away. My point was that I could waste this individual and not lose any sleep over it.
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.
infant rape should be a capital offense.
“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.”
You would be surprised; I’ve seen 13-year-old girls come on to men even older than 38. At that age, I think it’s mostly an ego thing where the girl feels beautiful and/or sexy to know that she can turn a guy on. If this ever happens to you, don’t walk away, RUN. Even if the guy in this story is telling the truth, it’s not a valid excuse for what he did, because an underage girl simply does not have the legal right to consent, ever. This is not only the law, it’s good common sense, because girls this young, even if they’re wild and willing, need laws like this to protect them from themselves.
While I agree with you on the other piercings, pierced ears is nothing new, nor is it a sign of poor parenting or sluttieness. The ears of many girls are pierced while they are still infants. I remember being so jealous of my friends in elementary school who had pierced ears and I was forbidden to have them. That was back in the '60s and I was in Catholic school. The ban on me having them was an Irish vs Italian prejudice my father grew up with.
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.
No, that is a lack of parental involvement and no dress code in the schools, which stems from a lack of parental involvement. A well written and strictly enforced dress code all but eliminates the problem of inappropriate attire.
Get a rope-rope.
And that, m'dear, makes sense. As opposed to the BS (to me) of sexually explicit stuff on TV.
While I realize my anecdotes are not science (nor are most studies) I'm the one seeing these girls on a regular basis, including my own daughter. One of the most physically developed of these girls is 12, is active in her church, and is homeschooled.
The book that detailed all this, with footnotes, is called "Early Puberty," iirc, and it also observed that *weight* is the major factor in the lower average age of puberty.
As you know, weight is not an issue in this household, there is none ;^)
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.
And of course that makes total sense, except when it comes to girls who are active, but are entering puberty years earlier than their mothers did.
Nutrition I believe has a great deal to do with it, but more along the lines of what is put into our foods now than 30 or 40 years ago.
When I was 11 what I knew about bras was from the ads I saw in my mother's Good Housekeeping magazine. I'm 49 and rarely need to wear one. My 11 year old, OTOH, has to wear one, yet she's a skinny bit of nothing who plays softball, takes dance, used to do TaiKwanDo, and runs around like crazy (she exhausts me just watching her.)
I am well aware that anecdotes are not evidence, but I can't believe this huge increase in the earlier onset of puberty is solely because of lack of exercise and nutritional issues.
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