Posted on 03/01/2010 7:03:18 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. (AP) - The top police officer in a remote eastern Missouri town was ordered to stand trial Monday on charges that he sexually assaulted two members of the Boy Scout troop he led after an investigator testified that the officer had confessed to the crimes.
Kenneth Tomlinson II, 42, faces 16 counts of sodomy. Madison County Judge Robin Fulton set an arraignment date of March 18 following emotional testimony at the preliminary hearing, at which only prosecutors presented evidence. Fulton determined they had enough to warrant a trial.
Tomlinson, who stands about 6-foot-2 and weighs well over 300 pounds, sat passively during the hearing, his wrists cuffed in front of him. The alleged victims, ages 12 and 14, were also in the courtroom but mostly looked away from him.
Fulton closed the hearing to the public during testimony from the boys. The Associated Press generally does not identify those who say they were victims of sex crimes.
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If I was those boys’ dad... GRRRRRRR
its easier to hide their perversity than if they were little guys....
what a monster.
“Great big guy” — how about waddling tub of lard.
Was his name “Big Gay Al?”
This comment is more than a joke. It is IMPORTANT that we vent our outrage as a society against those who commit atrocities. The current practice of keeping everything between the perp, and his lawyers, the DA prosecutors and the judge and jury doesn't allow public participation (vicarious of course) in the punishment. Instead, it numbs us to the most abhorrent crimes. We read about it in the papers or on the internet, then we later read about whatever sentence is handed down, and endless appeals. We are/have become robots, helpless pawns in a game of cops and robbers.
The people make the laws (by elected reps of course), and laws are made FOR the people. We have a RIGHT to see them carried out. I predict that if we reinstituted public hangings, support for the death penalty would go UP, not down.
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