Posted on 01/17/2006 3:27:44 PM PST by churchillbuff
A 42-year-old North Carolina AIDS activist, who said his highest priority was talking to kids about the disease, has been busted, along with his roommate for raping a 13-year-old boy.
Ricky Odell Yow, 42, the founder of Global Wheel of Hope, an organization that performs AIDS-HIV education in schools and who just last month was the subject of a heart-rending feature story in the Greensboro News & Record, is now being held on $1.5 million bond after being charged with five counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, three counts each of a first-degree sex offense with a child, using a minor to assist in an obscenity, first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, crimes against nature and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
The crimes took place last year, but just 30 days ago, Yow was telling a local reporter how he shows children as young as 12 photos of his brother, who died of AIDS, and shares his own story.
"When I tell them I have AIDS, they'll listen," he explained.
One of his organization's directors, Samuel Powell, agreed: "It makes them more inclined to listen and ask questions that can sometimes be tough to ask. He can talk to people and get them to respond."
But, apparently, Yow did more than talk.
He and Douglas Wayne Murphy, his roommate, are both charged with victimizing the boy – potentially, of course, spreading AIDS and a death sentence to the youngster.
Yow was first asked to speak in public schools by Crystal Taylor, then executive director of Alamance Cares, another AIDS "service organization."
"I said, 'You've got a vital piece of this that I can't give," she explained. "He can tell kids, 'This is not the life you want.' He can say, 'I understand.'"
And what a message he brings to kids: "HIV isn't the easiest thing in the world to get," he says – as long as you practice safe sex.
Yow told the local paper last month that he is on a mission "to turn what once looked like a roadblock into a way to give back and change the world – or at least his corner of North Carolina."
"Now I'm living for my future instead of planning for my death," he said.
Yow's program is in part funded by Americorps VISTA, a phony, fraudulent federal agency that pays "volunteers" like Yow to do good deeds with tax money extracted from you by force.
He hands out condoms and tells little kids it's OK to have sex with AIDS victims – presumably including him.
He boasted that he expected to "make contact" with as many as 4,000 people in 2006 – most of them between the ages of 12 and 24.
Yow found out he had AIDS when he was 24. Two years later, he said, he met his "life partner" Murphy, now charged with Yow in the crimes against the boy.
In the house where the 13-year-old boy was allegedly attacked, a plaque hangs on the gate that leads to the back yard: "Peace to all who enter here."
He talked last month of selling the mobile home he shares with Murphy and buying a brick house nearby with a big yard and two-car garage – all presumably subsidized with your tax dollars.
Yow says AIDS has taken nearly everything from him but his life.
"I think God does everything for a reason," he says. "I still feel this is something God meant for me to go through. It was his way of making me see things in my life I needed to change."
It seems Yow was quite a partier. He began drinking heavily – going on reckless binges and sometimes getting in fights.
After the death of his brother from AIDS, Yow says that all changed.
"That's when I started my 360-degree turn," he said.
That may sound like a non-sequitur – given that a 360-degree turn keeps you heading in the same direction.
But, of course, if the charges against Yow and his roommate have any merit, he really hasn't changed directions. What he did was start sharing the "good news" of AIDS with kids.
That's what government-sponsored "AIDS education" is really all about. It's OK to have sex – as long as you do it with condoms.
It's false message. It's a dangerous message. And clearly it was especially dangerous for at least one 13-year-old.
As you mention, many of us -- I know **I** am -- are wondering also why the subdued tone, subdued information, as in little to no media "outrage."
A lot of that peeks through with responses as to the article itself. However, MY POINT earlier and still is is that the writer seems affected somewhat and it might just be that he's affected by cultural numbing-down, by deference, by the fear that one "can't offend homosexuals" and such, because I still say he has devoted more energy to the guy's situation and financial and representational connery than he has to the victim/s. Doesn't even suggest the possibility/liklihood of more victims.
However, it's a minor thing but it's still noticable to my read, and has been, apparently, to others on this thread unrelated to me, if you'll read the comments through.
He makes a good presentation as to description of conditions, the ALLUSION of misleadments in the environment (the garden gate sign, the backyard, the new house, the false organization at taxpayer expense) and then also includes the perpetrator's sad and pathetic lies about some relationship with "God" and about the pathetic perpetrator's medical problem (AIDS), but just mentions the "rape" and the "13 year old boy" and then the charges in officially disinfected nomenclature.
There's nothing there about the child, about the child's family, statements/interviews from the community, nothing from law enforcement, no interviews or comments by anyone on behalf of the child and other likely victims, no comments from any interested medical personnel, nothing other than more focus than some of us even want to read as to the miserable perpetrator's "religious" comments and medical problems.
Yes, there are facts but by withholding and not including other personalized, informative comments/statements such as I've just suggested, the writer appears to devote far more focus/attention to the perpetrator than to the victim and/or victims.
Which is the cause for the degree of suspicion some of us note.
Which is about what I've now described several times over so I think these explanations are more than adequate.
Your comments are in the category of "Hammer Meets Nail", and eloquently stated.
Up until recently this form of sodomy was not at all chargeable as "rape". Also up until recent times, adult females could not be charged as "raping" minor boys. It had to do with the legal definition of "rape".
Homosexual sodomy is worse than "ordinary" rape, if possible. It used to be called a crime against nature, and so it is.
Not to minimize the viciousness of rape, especially when the victim is a child. Rape should be a capital crime, as it used to be.
What about assault with a deadly weopon for possibly infecting the child with HIV? What a pig.
In the 90s was in contact with some perfectly decent men jailed for "alleged" failure to pay child support. In most the cases, it wasn't that they had failed, it was that the wife had NOT cashed the checks, and then used the charge "he didn't pay" to get the guy jailed under 'Deadbeat Dads". Several were victims of homosexual rape in the jail.
A number of us involved with this learned very directly about the laws on the books at the time. And these laws "protected" assaultive sodomy, protected sexual crimes males can and do commit upon other males.
The feminists laughed in our faces, some went so far as to assert that "men are just getting what they deserve for 4,000 years of oppressing females. Now they can sit at the back of the bus too". And these comments were also published on public cyber boards; no shame whatsoever in saying such ugly things.
And so we tried to address the issue of male "rape" at public levels (articles, petitions to congress, etc.).
I don't know for fact that the legal definition of "rape" has changed (whether it be male on male or female on male regardless of age).
Sure, why not? If they've got a law on the books that fits. I think some states have written laws that are specific to knowingly spreading a potentially deadly disease. You know they'll probably dismiss most of the charges in a plea bargain so throw that in there too.
Thanks, little_jeremiah.
I wish they (the "hammer" comments) weren't necessary, however.
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Thanks for the history. Feminism is evil.
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