Posted on 04/19/2007 8:08:26 PM PDT by Muentzer2005
Defense attorney Bernard Shelton argued there was no evidence the girl knew Grocesley was a coach until after most, if not all, of their seven sexual encounters. They occurred from December 2005 to February 2006.
"He wasn't in a position of trust with respect to her," Shelton said in closing arguments. "She decided to have sex with him because she liked him, not because he hung out at the school."
Fillipitch argued it did not matter whether the girl knew he was a coach.
"You don't have sex with students," she said, pointing out Grocesley knew the girl was a cheerleader. "There is not a don't-ask, don't-tell policy."
Fitzgerald added that the last one or two sexual encounters happened after track season started, so the victim, who was on the girls' track team, could have seen him coaching the boys.
"Don't put the responsibility on the child," he told the jury. "The law is designed to protect the child. . . . The adult knows better. The coach knows better."
The sexual encounters occurred when the girl was 15, living with her parents and sleeping in a pink bedroom with a "princess theme" and lots of teddy bears. More than one encounter took place late at night in her bedroom when her parents were sleeping down the hall with their door closed, according to reports.
A friend of the victim testified that during a sleepover at the girl's house in early 2006, Grocesley had sex with both of them in another bedroom. In a videotaped statement Grocesley gave to police, he admitted having sex with the girl but said he thought she was "around 18." Shelton noted that high school students often are 17, the legal age of consent in Illinois, or even 18.
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That's ballsy.
Forty-five years? That’s just plain stupid. What they don’t mention is that this coash was twenty-one at the time - and the girl was either fifteen or sixteen.
See, this is the problem - we want to criminalize everything and have the government deal with everything. Fifty years ago, the girl’s brother or father would have given the Assistant Track Coach an ass-whooping, and that would probably have been the end of it.
Now it’s the police, councillors, and all of this drama. What nonsense.
Or held him at gunpoint until the Justice o' the Peace arrived with the proper paperwork. ;-)
Sis-boom-aahhhhh...
(STNG) JOLIET, Ill. The high school track coach accused of seducing students and possibly getting one pregnant also infected at least two of the girls with herpes and gonorrhea, officials said Thursday. Marcus Grocesley, a 21-year-old volunteer track coach for Joliet Township High School until his arrest in March, was indicted Wednesday on 11 counts of criminal sexual assault and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse."
The link:
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_111094814.htm
See, this IS the problem: See post #6.
Ladies; you need to ask for a picture so you can determine if he’s “Guilty.”
Oh well, maybe if he’s blond and really good looking he’ll get off...........
From what I see here he apparently got off quite a few times.
Who wants a pic of him? ;)
When, after arresting the guy, the police could only say that he ‘possibly got one pregnant’ it should be a clue as to the general moral state of the girls this guy was hanging around with.
As for the STD’s - this guy was twenty-one, these girls were in their mid to late-teen’s (since, I guess there were a number of them) - you lay down with dogs...
Rather curious wording.
“She decided to have sex with him because she liked him,
not because he hung out at the school.
Rather curious wording.”
True ...
He's not. He's Black. See post six for link.
I agree.
“He wasn’t in a position of trust “
She was on top?
Institute?
“maybe if he’s blond.....”
-—from his name alone, I am visualizing a young black man, but I haven’t seen any pix.
Post it. I would have but I'm "HTML Challenged."
I'm waiting on pictures of the gal myself. We need to see if this was a 'hittable' offense. ;^)
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