In all soberness I believe we need to incorporate the French razor into our judicial system.
Posted on 06/28/2009 4:12:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
It looks like Duke University has another rape case on its hands. This one may hurt the university nearly as much as the one that rocked its campus back in 2006. Unlike the previous case, this one appears to involve a credible confession of sexual abuse. Like the previous case, crucial facts are already being filtered through the prism of identity politics.
Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, he’s declined to comment.
University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a “perv dad for fun.” The detective who wisely looked into the suspicious screen name says that Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted son. All this was before allegedly inviting a stranger to travel to North Carolina from another state to statutorily rape his already-molested adopted son.
If Lombard is convicted, he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison. His arrest comes about a year after the Court decided that child rapists cannot be executed because “society” has “evolved” to the point where such executions would be “indecent.”
If this case goes to trial, it could be an interesting one to watch. But it will be just as interesting to watch the Duke faculty respond to these allegations. It didn’t take them long to respond when several white Duke Lacrosse players were accused of raping a black stripper. A whopping 88 professors signed a statement accusing the players of both racism and rape. Such was their regard for the presumption of innocence.
Perhaps even more stunning was the response of some professors after it became apparent that the white lacrosse players were innocent. After that became so obvious the school had to readmit the students, Professor Kate Holloway resigned her committee assignments in protest. By the way, the most common form of faculty protest these days is to refuse to work. Most people think this kind of protest is caused by arrogance. But the actual cause is a thing called “tenure.”
So it will be interesting to see how Duke faculty members respond to Frank Lombard. Because he is white, Lombard is fair game at Duke, isn’t he? But Lombard is also gay, so will that complicate things?
Unfortunately for Frank Lombard, the affidavit in support of his arrest warrant shows that this second Duke rape case will also have a strong racial component. According to a confidential source (CS) a man using the user name “cooper2” or “cooperse” logged onto an internet-based video chat room. CS saw him perform oral sex on an African-American child under the age of ten. He also performed other acts on the child, which are too obscene to be described in this column.
The user name “cooper2” has now been linked to Frank Lombard, the associate director Duke University’s Center for Health Policy. A second source has now alleged that “cooper2” has confessed to being “into incest” and that he has adopted two African American children.
The only good news coming out of this story is about Frank Lombard’s live-in homosexual partner. The affidavit in support of Lombard’s arrest warrant shows that he made special arrangements when molesting the child – sometimes even by drugging the child – to make sure his partner did not find out.
Records also indicate that Frank Lombard made a contribution to the Genesis Home in 2003. The Genesis Home is an organization that assists needy families in making a transition out of homelessness, in part by maintaining a child care center. The organization’s website features numerous photographs of African-American children under the age of ten.
The Associate Press (AP) did not mention the fact that the five-year old offered up for molestation was black. Bringing that fact to light might be damaging to the political coalition that exists between blacks and gays. Nor did the AP mention that the adopted child is being raised by a homosexual couple. Bringing that fact to light might harm the gay adoption movement.
I wrote this column because I believe that certain coalitions must be broken. And certain movements must be harmed. Let the political fallout begin.
They should have all been fired for this public lynching.
Where are the protests now?
bttt...waiting to see what happens
His arrest comes about a year after the Court decided that child rapists cannot be executed because “society” has “evolved” to the point where such executions would be “indecent.”
What a stupid sentence.
If we still have people that rape children then obviously society has NOT evolved to the point where such executions would be indecent...
Do I have to put a sarcasm tag?
by the way, what is the function of the Center for Health Policy. Is it one of those add-ons that provide places to place their non-teaching staff for purposes of diversity, and running up tuition costs?
It's the Center for Health Inequalities Studies. i.e. -- socialized medicine.
Many thanks to Prof. Adams for getting the facts about this story.
It’ll be ignored by the media to the same outrageous extent that the Duke lacrosse case was hyped.
I think the investigators should look into that Genesis Home. These pedo-nutcases network somehow, so I am suspicious of that place now. There may be nothing wrong at Genesis Home, but it wouldn't hurt to look into them a little bit.
Oh wait, nobody was convicted yet so I guess we can't assume this guy did this stuff or comment on it. At least that would be the case if his last name was Jackson.
There will probably be a press near blackout.
We can expect the full page ad signed by faculty that proclaim the man’s guilt - any day now...
Absolutely. It’s a gross and disgusting story, but the public actually does have a legitimate interest in knowing more about it, based particularly on the guy’s employment at the school (what is this “Health Policy” thing, anyway?) and his connection with Genesis House.
But it’s going to be hushed up so fast that in a couple of days it will have gone away altogether.
and not only Genesis House. Does N.C. allow adoptions by homosexual couples?? If so, I was not aware of it, and I doubt many around here are either.
Michael Jackson would have been proud, eh?
NC used to ban adoptions across racial lines. Blacks didn’t want white people raising black children
“but the public actually does have a legitimate interest in knowing more about it”
Publish the names and addresses of the people in that chat room that replied with interest to his postings.
Well, probably neither item was newsworthy. If anyone wanted to know, I'm sure they would have mentioned it.
In all soberness I believe we need to incorporate the French razor into our judicial system.
Editors at the networks and newspapers should be deluged with calls to cover the new “Duke Rape Case”.
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