Posted on 09/20/2017 4:11:50 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
AUBURN, Ala. - Two employees of the transit system at Auburn University have been accused of raping an 18-year-old student on one of the buses Friday night.
Tony Martin Patillo, 51, of Columbus, Georgia, and James Don Johnson Jr., 32, of Auburn, are each charged with first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy, according to Lee County Jail records. Patillo is also charged with four counts of public lewdness.
The Opelika-Auburn News reported that the lewdness charges stem from an incident just before midnight on Friday in which witnesses spotted a man exposing himself while standing over a woman on the ground. Patillo was arrested when responding officers found him nearby.
Detectives conducting additional investigation into the incident learned that Patillo had allegedly sexually assaulted the woman, who appeared to be incapacitated, while on the bus, the News reported.
The woman, who was no longer present when Patillo was arrested, was identified and tracked down by police officers, whom she told about the alleged rape. According to investigators, Johnson drove the bus and “engaged in actions to perpetuate the crime while Patillo was in the rear of the bus, assaulting the victim,” the News reported.
Patillo exited the bus with the woman in the area where the passersby spotted him exposing himself a few minutes later, police officials said.
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Anyone with a working sense of morality knows that it is wrong to drug someone to take sexual advantage. If they think they can get away with it then some will take advantage anyway, and as long as there is a culture of easy hook-ups and “friends” who look the other way then predators have good reason to think they can get away with it. It is naïve and foolish to think that women don’t have to protect themselves from being victims. That is not odd, that is reality.
People react to consequences. A predator will hold back if he thinks he will be caught. The woman needs to know the consequence of not protecting herself. Better than telling the guys not to roofie, you may do better to encourage them to step in and stop it if they see someone else doing it, but then on a modern college campus I am sure that has negative consequences too.
They all know the drill but there is always that one bad apple. We’ve never had a problem with it because, as best I can tell, these guys repel women. Nerdy engineer and computer science types.
It’s funny to hear them whisper about having a “keg” at a party. Shoot. We had a two keg cooler in our house with two spares and we were on the beer distributors route. But they can’t let me know there will be beer at a party and I sure can’t show up.
Twach and arm your daughters.........
D—n... Teach and arm your daughters.......
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