Here ya go..
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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Mirror mirror on the wall
We need her pic to make a call
GOOOOO TEAM!
i couldn’t find any
A bit of cleansing, perhaps, but the story is gone. Neither is there a photo on googlie, yahooie, or msmm&m search.
:O)
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Then we can’t assess her innocence...we already know he is GUILTY
She’s 15—out of jurisdiction for The Institute (Article XXVI, section 9, Paragraphs G, H, and I)...
Thanks for the reading from the Institute Employee Manual!
No problemo...
Our Counsel actually asked me to forward it along...
Institute in sleep mode: )
Almost as bad as the “Library of Congress”
Rah-rah-arrested. And rightfully so.
You misunderstood my post....baaaad joke ;)
Worse than NARA, but not nearly as bad as the LOC...
Fair enough!
Ya Rly...
The man gets 45 years while female teachers have sex with young boys and never get 45 days. Just a bit of a double standard, donchathink?
Here ya go..
Darn, sorry.. isn’t Google.. but, that is where I found his pic.
Don't forget about all that money for the lawyer$, that'$ why lawyer'$ like to get elected $o they can make law$ to benefit lawyer$.
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