Guilty verdicts in gang-rape case (Orange County, CA)

The Orange County Register ^ | 3/23/05 | By PEGGY LOWE and RACHANEE SRISAVASDI

[So Cal Rocket]

Haidl convicted on six of nine charges; Spann on 5, Nachreiner on 4. None is convicted of rape, oral copulation or aggravated assault.

Three young men, including the son of a former top Orange County sheriff’s official, were convicted today of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl during a night of partying.

Gregory Haidl, 19, and Keith Spann and Kyle Nachreiner, both 20, were each convicted on multiple counts of sexual penetration by intoxication for the July 6, 2002, episode that Haidl videotaped at the Corona del Mar home of his father, former Assistant Orange County Sheriff Don Haidl, a millionaire businessman.

The jury in the trio’s second trial returned verdicts after more than 18 hours of deliberations over four days. They acquitted Nachreiner of the most serious charge – rape by intoxication – and deadlocked on the same charge regarding Haidl and Spann. All three were acquitted of assault with a deadly weapon and oral copulation.

[DuckFan4ever]

If you are a big enough asshole to video tape a sexual encounter without someone else's knowledge, you deserve what you get.

[steenkeenbadges]

Jerry Springer candidates, one and all.

[rottndog]

Better stock up on soap-on-a-rope.

[bigsigh]

Rape by intoxication? What's next? Rape by dinner and a movie?

[ahayes]

If this is the "sexual encounter" I think it is, the girl was flat-out unconscious on the pool table during the entire gang rape. Taping it was incredibly stupid.

[pleasedontzotme]

I've got a punishment for lowlife rapists that I think would act as a deterrent.

I doubt, however, that it would be upheld in court.

Plus, you'd have to be really sure you were right. After all, it doesn't grow back.

[sharktrager]

So, you think it's ok to have sex with an unconscious woman?

That is what these guys did.

[BubbaTex]

"So, you think it's ok to have sex with an unconscious woman?"

Also, it hardly sounds like fun.

They should have purchased an "inflatable friend".

[technomage]

None is convicted of rape,

I must be very dumb. I always thought that 'sexual penetration' of a minor was rape.

I must be out of touch with reality.

[skaterboy]

Girl is not exactly the kind you take home to mother but she didnt deserve this

[skaterboy]

some debate on if she was out

[StoneColdGOP]

Good. Those three little bastards need to go to prison and to know what it's like to be on the receiving end of rape.

[monday]

"Taping it was incredibly stupid."

Doing it was incredibly stupid. Don't these guys have sisters or mothers? What were they thinking?

[Rembrandt_fan]

Oh, great. Now I've got an endlessly looping Rick James song playing in my head.

[bigsigh]

I didn't know she was unconscious, I thought she was american.

[cherry]

Thank God for some good news today....these punks just about got away with this because the girl is a "slut" according to some freepers....and therefore, deserved to be attacked......

[benjaminjjones]

Buh Bye Boys, don't drop the soap.