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→ Charges are dropped against grandson of influential GOP representative
Posted on 10/13/2013 7:59:39 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
The first thing Daisy Coleman remembers is her surprise that she was still alive.
“I was just like, I thought I was dead at first,” she said.
An incoherent Coleman, then 14, crawled to the front door of her family’s home in Maryville, Mo. It was a Sunday morning, Jan. 8, 2012, 5 a.m. Her younger brother, Tristin, and mother, Melinda, heard a thumping and at first thought it was their dogs trying to come in.
Daisy Coleman had been outside about three hours, unconscious, in 30-degree temperatures. She wore no socks or shoes, just a T-shirt and sweatpants. Her hair was wet and frozen. She couldn’t speak and only cried.
“It almost sounded like somebody falling against the door,” said Melinda Coleman. “I kept thinking, did she sleepwalk? And she had absolutely no idea.”
In a case that resembles several other high-profile sexual assault charges across the U.S., a 17-year-old Maryville High School senior, Matthew Barnett, was arrested for sexually assaulting Daisy Coleman, then leaving her propped up beside her family’s home. Another Maryville High senior, Jordan Zech, 17, was also charged in the case, accused of felony sexual exploitation of a minor because he videotaped Barnett and Daisy Coleman on an iPhone.
But the difference between this case and others – in particular the Stuebenville, Ohio, case in which two high school football players were convicted of raping and videotaping an incapacitated 16-year-old girl – Barnett and Zech are free today. In a move that shocked the town, Robert Rice, the Nodaway County prosecutor, dropped all charges two months after the alleged assault.
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ping
LAWSUIT!!!
Sue the perp’s family for EVERYTHING THEY HAVE!!
Keep the trial going and in the press FOREVER!!
Campaign against the DA!
Better first have Whoopi Goldberg determine if it was ‘rape-rape’.
There appears to be some abuse of power invoving the perp’s grandfather, who is a state representative, and the Sheriff.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fundraiser-for-daisy-coleman-rape-victim
I’d recommend people make a donation here, if they have any cash to spare.
The family has been through a lot. With the father gone, and the house fire on top of the rape. Even a small amount would I’m sure mean the world to them.
Marysville, MO=Stubenville West
Some are more equal than others.
I don’t know if I’d outright say he’s tampering with it. The thing is, when you have as much power as he does you tend to drag a lot of people around you with it like a boat moving through the water leaves a wake. His kids are no doubt very influential people. Some of those kids probably have a lot of influence. Someone could easily pull strings for their cousin/nephew/son.
I think the source to put pressure on is the DA. Have him spill the beans on why he’s dropping the case. Something like this is far FAR worse than anything George Zimmerman did and if the DA won’t charge I think they need to see if they can do a grand jury. Let’s see if they will.
If these privileged idiots think that God looks the other way at this corrupt cronyism they need to think again. As for the kids involved, the girls were foolish to drink and go over to the boys house, but the boys, several years older, clearly carry the weight of responsibility for this tragedy. They should have done time. What a sad story.
Maryville is in Nodaway County. Skidmore, MO is in Nodaway County. Ken McElroy, the SKidmore town bully, was gunned down in a public square in 1981. No one ever told who did the shooting. No law enforcement agency has cracked the case. These people know how to keep quiet.
Why we need to end Prosecutorial and Judicial Immunity. Allow prosecutors and judges to be held criminally and civilly held responsible....just like we do law enforcement. Ending Immunity would end a lot of this nonsense
I live in Kansas City but my home town is Stanberry, MO, which is between Maryville and Albany and I graduated college from Maryville (Northwest Missouri State).
No question these are tight-knit communities, and Maryville has some powerful families that wield influence and could likely apply enough pressure to get their kids out of trouble. These privileged boys should be held fully accountable and punished to the full extent of the law. However, my conflict is that I don’t believe anything printed in the Kansas City Star, about anything. Also, they are huge libs and would do or say anything to implicate a Republican like trying to drag Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) into this story. Don’t know much about this story but until I hear from someone other than the Kansas City Star I’m reserving judgement.
I’ll have to contact my family back home to hear the real scoop on this. Fortunately, some of the truly good people of these communities seem to have a way of eventually seeing real justice gets done.
There was a time, that if you did this to a young girl, you needed to worry that a male relative might decide to blow out your lamp,,
Paging Ellie Nessler...
The boys of the world are lucky that they never did my daughter this way. It would have gone very bad for them. The law be damned.
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any mention of which party this “well connected pol” is from?
I have nothing but contempt for young “men” who would do something like this.
However, I would like to point out the incongruity of assigning no responsibility at all for what happened to the young woman because she was drunk, while holding the young men in question fully responsible, even though they were in all likelihood just as intoxicated.
Youth, alcohol and sex is a bad combination, especially when combined with the sense of entitlement of athletes.
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