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Man not guilty in 'dungeon' rapes
AP via Yahoo ^ | 04/23/07

Posted on 04/23/2007 8:12:01 AM PDT by Abathar

DARLINGTON, S.C. - A jury has found a convicted sex offender accused of raping two teen girls in an underground bunker not guilty of kidnapping, sex crimes and assault with intent to kill.

Kenneth Glenn Hinson wiped his eyes and mouth and appeared to cry after the jury read its verdict, which followed about four hours of deliberations over two days.

If convicted, Hinson had faced a mandatory life sentence without parole under the state's two-strikes law because he was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl in 1991.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: moralabsolutes; sexoffender
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To: SengirV
I know he would if I was the father of one of these girls.

They made up the story because they stole his drugs. But don't let that stop you.

41 posted on 04/23/2007 8:39:45 AM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: Russ
"The police better keep an eye on this guy..."
Before an irate Daddy gets him.
42 posted on 04/23/2007 8:40:07 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: queenkathy

Ummm... proof that 1. either he did indeed take them out of their room and 2. any evidence that they were restrained against their will or 3. any evidence that sexual activity did indeed occur as the two girls claim.


43 posted on 04/23/2007 8:41:39 AM PDT by Utilizer (What does not kill you... - can sometimes damage you QUITE severely.)
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To: SengirV

Tell me how a man could take not only one but two 17 yr old girls from their beds at night. Were they asleep?

And these were 17 yr olds. Old enough to put up a fight I would think. Didn’t say they were drugged or anything.


44 posted on 04/23/2007 8:42:35 AM PDT by queenkathy (The shampoo promised me extra body and I gained 3 pounds)
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To: Utilizer

My opinion is just that - my opinion.


45 posted on 04/23/2007 8:42:56 AM PDT by the anti-liberal (OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
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To: BJungNan
Like other charges? The guy shouldn’t even have been out. I never sat on the OJ jury either and in no way does it prevent me from commenting on it.
46 posted on 04/23/2007 8:43:04 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Churchillspirit

It’s too bad so many FReepers are pointing out that I can’t get a fair trial from them for something like this based on their knee-jerk comments. Either that or Nifong has a whole lot of FR accounts.

No matter what evil exists in the world, the state should still have to prove a felony case beyond a reasonable doubt.


47 posted on 04/23/2007 8:43:06 AM PDT by nhoward14
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To: Russ
The police better keep an eye on this guy...

Hinson was not freed because prosecutors asked that he be held on pending burglary charges.

48 posted on 04/23/2007 8:44:40 AM PDT by Between the Lines (I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations. So should you.)
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To: queenkathy
"Tell me how a man takes not 1 but 2— 17 yr old teens out of their beds during the night. What did I miss?"

His magical powers. He graduated from the Potter school.

49 posted on 04/23/2007 8:45:32 AM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: SittinYonder
"I would never sell dope to teenagers. "

LOL! Does that mean you sell only to adults?

Carolyn

50 posted on 04/23/2007 8:48:13 AM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: Abathar

More here, article written before the verdict, gives some background.

The guy took the stand in his own defense.
Admitted to having sex with the girls.

http://www.morningnewsonline.com/midatlantic/scp/local_news.apx.-content-articles-FMN-2007-04-22-0008.html


51 posted on 04/23/2007 8:48:22 AM PDT by Canali
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To: SengirV
"I suspect he’ll be meeting a horrible end in the next couple of days/weeks/months. I know he would if I was the father of one of these girls."

A father should be more concerned about their daughters telling the truth. There's also no DNA evidence, which means the girls weren't to worried about anything, until later.

52 posted on 04/23/2007 8:49:03 AM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: Utilizer

Next thing you’ll be tellin’ me is that there is a “Search” feature on FR.............Ha Ha Ha, can’t fool me!........


53 posted on 04/23/2007 8:49:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
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To: Bosco
Just because you are a convicted rapist, and, just because you have an secret underground sexual torture chamber stocked with illegal mind altering drugs, and you entertain local teenage girls now and then,does that make you a bad person?
54 posted on 04/23/2007 8:49:16 AM PDT by Frankss
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To: Anti-Bubba182; SittinYonder

Dammit! How come the hotties never showed up when I was single?


55 posted on 04/23/2007 8:50:55 AM PDT by Xenalyte ("A cat can give birth to kittens in the oven. That don't make 'em biscuits." - Quanell X)
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To: Abathar

They MUST have had a really weak or screwed up case against this guy.

MOST people would be predispositioned to throw the book at him.


56 posted on 04/23/2007 8:51:41 AM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: the anti-liberal

Point of order . . . eight-balls aren’t pot.


57 posted on 04/23/2007 8:52:13 AM PDT by Xenalyte ("A cat can give birth to kittens in the oven. That don't make 'em biscuits." - Quanell X)
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To: Russ
No truer words have EVER been spoken!

58 posted on 04/23/2007 8:53:14 AM PDT by GrandEagle
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To: Red Badger

Well, that is what it as labeled as, but then again George Steponallofus is called a ‘man’ by some. Which I would never do. *laugh*


59 posted on 04/23/2007 8:55:48 AM PDT by Utilizer (What does not kill you... - can sometimes damage you QUITE severely.)
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To: queenkathy
Tell me how a man could take not only one but two 17 yr old girls from their beds at night. Were they asleep?

Yeah, there should have been physical evidence of a break-in and struggle. Maybe there was, but I doubt it. Not enough to convince the jury anyway.
60 posted on 04/23/2007 8:57:19 AM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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