Family trees can get very confusing...
Posted on 12/19/2005 6:40:52 PM PST by mcg2000
MARYVILLE, Tenn. A mother charged in the shooting death of a man she said raped her young daughter was sentenced to four years in prison today.
Authorities say Kimberly Cunningham must serve nearly a third of the sentence before being eligible for parole, The Knoxville News Sentinel reports.
Her attorney Bruce Poston told Blount County Circuit Court Judge D. Kelly Thomas that he would appeal the sentence.
In October Cunningham was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the death of Coy Hundley, her daughter's uncle.
Cunningham was tried on a charge of first-degree murder in April in the case, but the jury acquitted her of that charge and deadlocked on all lesser charges.
Cunningham has served about two months in jail since the October 7th 2003 killing and Poston said that would be deducted from her sentence.
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You'd pop a cap in someone who made your daughter cry?
That seems sort of extreme, even to me.
(Hint: don't let your daughters date, ever. Men will make them cry, at least once.)
I see nothing wrong with vigilante justice as long as the vigilante gets the right person!
Why all the quotation marks? They don't add clarity, and they make the reader think that what's inside them isn't necessarily so.
In a context such as the above, quotation marks are the punctuation equivalent of putting "alleged" or "so-called" in front of the words inside them.
Family trees can get very confusing...
My daughters will be allowed to date when they own their own homes outright. I buckled on the makeup thing, they cn start using makeup when they turn 21.
hehehe.
What a terrible thing to have to live through, God Bless and keep you.
The problem is that children and women make false accusations about things all the time. There needs to be other evidence when it comes to putting a person in prison or shooting them dead in the driveway.
Even a special needs children with limited mental capacity are capable of making false accusations. This occurred last week...
A Morrow High School special needs student lied when she accused a fellow student of rape, Clayton County police said Friday.
Assistant Chief Jeff Turner said the girl, 14, admitted to detectives Thursday night that she made up the rape allegation because she was angry at the boy for bragging about having sex with her.
Turner said the girl had sex with two boys, both 15, Friday while they were supposed to be in class.
School officials said the acts took place off campus.
Turner said the girl will not be charged with making a false report of a crime because of her mental capacity and that the boys will not be charged.
Asked whether the students will be disciplined by the school district, spokesman Charles White said the investigation is continuing
And that was the whole point.
That "she said" is frequently reason enough to disbelieve a child's revelation of abuse.
The post was sarcasm directed at the flippant "she said" crack.
Sometimes "she said" is the definitive evidence and not idle hearsay.
I've had 35 years of putting up with the "she said" crap and it's a very sore spot.
Thank you, Ditter.
God bless you for caring.
Absolutely.
There are other parents who do nothing for fear of creating a "scene".
There are those who will do anything-- I mean ANYTHING-- to avoid any form of shame or embarrassment.
It's easier to sacrifice a child than your life (marriage, family, circle of friends, community status, church, mostly your whole frame of reality). Besides, if you tell the kid they're exaggerating, being overly emotional or 'don't understand what he's trying to do', you'll start to believe it yourself.
I applaud this mother too.
I get what you're saying.
You get called a liar so many times you just shut up and quit trying to tell them anything.
No wonder I hate authority figures to this day ;) ;)
A hung jury is a do-over, not an aquittal.
The mother didn't even know if the man was guilty. Maybe he was, but it would have nice if there was actually a chance to investigate the charges and collect evidence.
Would you applaud a parent that shot your spouse or children just because they believed that they were responsible for hurting their child? Wouldn't you want your family member to have a chance to answer the charges?
Again you give examples of teenagers/adults bringing false charges for purposes of revenge.
You have to bear in mind that -most- 10 year year olds, even in these fast-paced times lack the mental complexity to fabricate credible sexual accusations.
Back in the early 70s in my *extremely* culturally backwards area, it simply was not done.
Kids were kids, here.
We didn't even get sex ed until our teens because kids here weren't "fast" enough to need it before then.
For every example you give of a false accusation, dozens, [if not hundreds] of molesters are walking free without fear of ever being held accountable, mainly because they have the assurance of getting out of it by casting doubt on the motives of their accusers.
In the short time I've been on FR I've "met" several dozen FReepers whose stories mirror mine.
By the time they turn 18, 2 out of every 3 women will have been raped or molested.
The prisons should over-filled with their assailants but they're not.
Why?
Because the victims will always face an inquistion designed to destroy -them- rather than convicting their attacker.
So most of them remain silent and suffering.
And with this post, I am done with this circular argument.
I have spent enough years justifying myself to family and don't need to start justifying myself to strangers.
"It's easier to sacrifice a child than your life (marriage, family, circle of friends, community status, church, mostly your whole frame of reality). Besides, if you tell the kid they're exaggerating, being overly emotional or 'don't understand what he's trying to do', you'll start to believe it yourself."
With that one brief statement, you have efficiently synopsized my life.
Thank you....:)
Yup.
You internalize it all.
You're asking the wrong woman that question hun.
Before I die,
I would love to see one crumb of justice delivered...
One person willing to fight for me....or get angry in my behalf...
I was raised by cowards, mad-men and perverts...
So yes,
any woman willing to kill for her child strikes a chord in my soul.
Again, ask someone else.
The one thing I learned is that monsters trive in the silence and blessings of cowards.
And we don't know the back-story, either.
The mother may have acted on the final piece of a puzzle to which only she knows the whole answer.
*If* my mom wanted to face it, she could sit and assemble various seemingly unrelated incidents and evidences of physical damage that would reveal the truth to her.
But, she's chosen not to.
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