Marcus Dixon CONVICTED Ten Years for Child Molestation

[cyborg]

I just heard that Marcus Dixon has been convicted of child molestation. Ten years in prison...a complete outrage esp. since the girl said she lied anout the rape.

[rdb3]

He is old enough to know that she is a minor. There are plenty of women his age and older -- there is no excuse to go after children and ruin their childhood. He is sexual predator and needs to be locked up.

You are a real piece of work, you know that? I mean, really.

He's 18 and she's 15. Teenagers. You make it sound like he's 45 and has horns on his head, while apparently thinking that there is no way this girl would consent to sexual relations with him.

The real reason for your vitriol is his race. You know it (but won't admit it, I'm sure), and I know it. Spin it however you like, but this is the brutal truth.

I will stand by this, believe me.

[11th_VA]

For some reason, I don't think the Barney Franks of the world will be sceaming "States Rights" over this one ... JMHO

[cyborg]

You know it. I know it. Some people have a hard time facing their own personal issues.

[cyborg]

Where is Mr. Frank anyway? I thought he retired.

[Prime Choice]

In those times it would have been really simple to do that.

Only with the weak-willed and simple-minded.

[Prime Choice]

He is old enough to know that she is a minor. There are plenty of women his age and older -- there is no excuse to go after children and ruin their childhood. He is sexual predator and needs to be locked up.

Thanks for posting that. I was beginning to think that morality and decency were in short supply on this thread.

[rdb3]

Only with the weak-willed and simple-minded.

Then you just condemned an entire region of this nation. Back then, it was a given.

[Dante3]

You sure see racism everywhere. Race has nothing to do with this. Read your response and see how absurd it sounds.

My point is: leave children alone, let them have their childhood. This goes for all races, ethnic groups, and religions. I have absolutely no sympathy for the ACLU (white) who is fighting on behalf of NAMBLA. Same goes for the demented priests (white) who raped children, or the pedophiles (young or old) who are trying to lower the age of consent and present twisted rationalization on behalf of sex with children.

This Dixon could have picked on someone his age or older. He chose a 15-year-old. There is not excuse for this. A line has to be drawn. Bill O'Reilly had a good article on this subject: "Enslaving Children," The Washington Times, Feb. 2, '04.

[KantianBurke]

What's this all about??

[Dante3]

I've no sympathy for pedophiles who try to rationalize sex with minors. No way is this a racial issue.

[cyborg]

Teen sex... but really it's about mandatory minimum sentences.

[cyborg]

You're joking right? You sound absurd. Almost everyone who lives there says that what it's all about. Comparing this boy to NAMBLA shows YOUR intellectual dishonesty.

[hellinahandcart]

Has there been anything at all in the way of followup? I can't even find an article about the Supreme Court desision.

[Vigilantcitizen]

From here.

Set Marcus free,' crowd chants
Hundreds protest sentence in sex case

By SAEED AHMED
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/01/04

Holding signs and chanting "Set Marcus free," hundreds of people gathered outside the state Capitol Monday night to protest what they say is the unjust sentence of Marcus Dixon, a high school honor student serving a minimum 10-year prison term for having sex with a classmate.
 
Busloads of students from colleges in Savannah, Augusta, Columbus and Valdosta joined their counterparts from the Atlanta University Center and luminaries such as Mayor Shirley Franklin to call for leniency as the state Supreme Court considers Dixon's appeal. The court is expected to rule this year.
 
"We've not come here to determine innocence or guilt," said Kweisi Mfume, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who was among the speakers who addressed the crowd. "We've come here to shine a light on the misapplication of Georgia law and the miscarriage of justice."
 
Dixon was a defensive end on the Pepperell High School football team in Rome with a near-perfect grade point average who had won a scholarship to Vanderbilt University.
 
Dixon was 18 when he was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl in a classroom trailer in February 2003. Dixon claimed the sex was consensual.
 
A jury convicted him of aggravated child molestation and statutory rape. But they cleared him of rape, sexual battery, false imprisonment and aggravated assault — meaning they did not believe Dixon had forced the girl to have sex.
 
Nevertheless, Dixon was sentenced to 15 years in prison, including 10 without hope of parole, by a judge who said he was imposing the minimum sentence required by an aggressive anti-crime law enacted in the mid-1990s.
 
At the rally Monday, speakers urged the protesters to lobby their legislators to repeal the mandatory minimum sentencing law.
 
"You know Rosa Parks wasn't the first person to [refuse to] give up her seat. She was the right person at the right time," said Peri Jones, who has been Dixon's legal guardian since he was 12. "Marcus is the right person for this time. He's taking it for everybody."
 
Ghenet McKinney, a grandmother from Stone Mountain, said the Dixon case should trouble any parent who has teenage boys.
 
"I'm a mother and I know that teenagers make mistakes," McKinney said. "But when they do, the punishment should fit the crime."

[cyborg]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040302/ap_on_re_us/athlete_s_appeal_1

Also see post #114 VC's post

[KantianBurke]

Sorry. I agree with Dante3 on this one. Stat rape is stat rape. He belongs behind bars.

[hellinahandcart]

Still not seeing anything in either article about the girl taking back her story.

[cyborg]

He turned eighteen and she was almost sixteen...he goes to jail for ten years??? We disagree.

[cyborg]

And she never will because of her parents... that's just the way I see it.

[KantianBurke]

he violated the law. he should be punished. simple as that. if you disagree with the law then by all means work to change it through the democratic process. But until that time, you , he and the rest of us must abide by it.