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.

[Lazamataz]

I think it's sad.

Oh, it sucks. I spent two months in stir, and ALL the charges were DROPPED OUTRIGHT....

Two months wasted!

[coloradan]

So do I understand you correctly that a 16 year old boy can sleep with a 14 year old girl for two years, but then he turns 18 so it becomes illegal, she's still 16. But then two years after that, he's 20 and she turns 18, so it's legal again for one year, they're both in the gap, but then he turns 21 and she's 19, so it becomes illegal again, until she turns 21 two years after that? Is that correct?

[hellinahandcart]

It doesn't strike me as the least bit odd. I would avoid such a scenario like the plague. My life isn't for public consumption or entertainment, and I wouldn't want my minor child to be exposed to more publicity and scrutiny than she'd already been through.

[discostu]

That's about the jist of it (at least as I understand it, I could be wrong, I have been before). Statutory rape (even in states that don't have a silly buffer zone) requires one person to be over the line and the other below. From a legal perspective two kids under the age are just being stupid, but one person over the age can apply pressure on someone under the age and make them consent to things they don't understand. Probably the wierdest sets of laws in the books. Not that they're entirely bad, there should be some concept of age proofing consent to keep the extreme situations punishable, but when you look at it in cases where the two parties are close in age it begins to seem a little odd.

[cyborg]

Okay fair enough.

[Dante3]

That is exactly what pedophiles want to do -- they want to keep pushing the age step by step lower and lower. Dixon had it coming, should have been punished earlier. Let them pick on girls their own age.

[snowstorm12]

I think possibly the lawyer didn't want them on the show because they have a big lawsuit against the school because they didn't report the previous sexual misconduct of Dixon to police or something like that.

[hellinahandcart]

Think about it. Why should the truth of your case depend on how well you perform before a live studio audience?

Some of us aren't good at it. Some of us KNOW we aren't good at it and know we wouldn't serve ourselves well by running in front of a camera.

[weegee]

Somehow I don't think teens in high school are aware of this law in these sexualized times.

As the homosexuals are already showing them, laws don't matter. Law is dead. Do as thou will.

[cyborg]

I agree wholeheartedly. It wasn't a coincidence that the outright pride in performing oral sex happened after Bill Clinton. Pretty sad.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Miss VC has relatives that live in that area, Rome, Ga. I've heard alot about this case and here is my take:

Mr. Dixon had a scholorship to Vanderbilt, which is not a prototypical southern football school in that people actually have to have grades to attend.

Vanderbilt ain't FSU or Miami. I've seen players turned down by Vanderbilt for minor stuff. Mr. Dixon was very clean to be accepted.

I have no doubt in my mind that the sex between Dixon and the minor was consensual, and the sentence was way too harsh.

Cold blooded murderers have gotten less.(Carolina Panther Fred Lane's wife got 8 years for murdering him in cold blood.)


From what I've heard, the only reason the girl claimed that Dixon raped her was she was because of her parents.

I've got a 15 year old daughter, and if she was the girl in this case, I still wouldn't think the sentence was justified.

[cyborg]

From what I've heard, the only reason the girl claimed that Dixon raped her was she was because of her parents.

**That's what I'm hearing from a lot of people who live there.

[Prime Choice]

Yep, and in 1859 I suppose that you would have reported those escaped slaves to the slave catchers, because the law is the law.

Now you're being silly. First off, there's slim chance you could convince anyone that slavery is moral. Secondly, there are reasons (teleological and deontological) why having sex with children is illegal.

*sigh* Once again, instead of handling the issue in a reasoned manner, jackwits like yourself have to start throwing mud and jumping to conclusions.

Let me know when you have something worthwhile to contribute.

[rdb3]

Vanderbilt ain't FSU or Miami. I've seen players turned down by Vanderbilt for minor stuff. Mr. Dixon was very clean to be accepted.

I've heard. Rice University is like that here in Texas. Baylor, well, nevermind.

From what I've heard, the only reason the girl claimed that Dixon raped her was she was because of her parents.

A point where many here simply refuse to even entertain for a moment.

[Col Freeper]

Thank you for cutting through the smoke and mirrors of "I feel ...." and getting down to the facts. My kudos for focusing on the simple questions like: how do you know what you just posted is true? What are your sources?, etc.

[rdb3]

Now you're being silly. First off, there's slim chance you could convince anyone that slavery is moral.

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

[rmlew]

I believe the statute in NYC does not hold men accountable for sex with another teenager if they are 18-20.

[rmlew]

To an 18 year old, a girl of 15 years 9 months is a woman.

[Rifleman]

Mud throwing? Jumping to conclusions? Are we projecting a bit this evening, infant?

And a fifteen year old is not a child. Through most of history, she would be married and might have a child or two. There are many reasons that a family and a society would want to prevent this liason,and protect the chastity (or at least the marrigability) of young women. The fact is that we don't do so with any consistancy and sending this guy to prison for ten years is stupid and evil and even unfair.

And the day that I ask your permission (or anyone's) to express my opinion is the day that Lucifer buys ice skates.

[Dante3]

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.