Posted on 09/22/2004 3:52:13 PM PDT by paltz
By JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer
MILWAUKEE - An 11-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with raping a 76-year-old neighborhood woman in her home as three of his friends stood watch.
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Police said that for a week before the attack, the boys had been "terrorizing" the woman in her house, repeatedly breaking in and taking cash and other items.
The woman, who lived alone, told police she was taking a sponge bath in the kitchen Friday when the 11-year-old walked in, demanded money and then ordered her to take off her clothes and go into the bedroom, according to court papers.
The boy's brother, a 13-year-old who was among the three other boys also charged, said he heard the woman say: "I'm just an old, half-crippled lady, I'm not going."
The woman said the 11-year-old put on a condom and tried to rape her, followed by a second boy.
The 11-year-old was charged in juvenile court with sexual assault and being a party to burglary and criminal trespassing. The other boys — ages 11, 12 and 13 — were charged with being a party to burglary and criminal trespassing.
In court Wednesday, the 11-year-old facing the less serious charges called out, "Hi, Mom" after spotting his adoptive mother.
"I'm very hurt because my son was raised as a good boy," she said outside court. She complained that police abused the boys to obtain confessions.
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I don't think that a 76 year old woman was in danger of becoming pregnant...
That's great. All we need are more Planned Parenthood clinics in the big cities. Are they going to have them in the country too? They do have illict out of wedlock sex there too *LOL*
I went to a PP for an exam, and they push birth control pills asking me ever five minutes if I want BC. They also give out FREE condoms and you can get pills FREE and norplant FREE and FREE IUDs. It's free because you fill out a little voucher and the government pays. When I told the lady I pay for my own healthcare and am not interested in BC she looked at me cross eyed *LOL* So yes all these things that GS suggested, are available to anyone who wants it.
I think a closer reading of the article is in order...you may have read something into the article that wasn't there.
no I doubt she was in danger of becoming pregnant, however where did the 11 year old sociopath come from?
Send the kids to work in Iraq.
Maybe we should send all the criminals with death sentences on their heads to work in Iraq....
"11 years old? How does an 11 year old boy know about sex? And where did he get the condom? I bet the condom was too big for the boy."
MTV, movies, school, home, friends. How do you think he learned how to steal. . Probably a Combination of the above.
At 11 he is already a felon.
Indeed, some of these kids are permanently mentally scarred by the treatment/behavior of the biological parents, especially given their age. Small wonder that things like what happened to this woman occur. The kids had no moral upbringing. These adoptive parents should be commended for taking on the risk of raising troubled kids. Course, how the kid was then raised by the adoptive parents should be judged on its own merit. Not much in the article about that.
I didn't see a sarcasm tag, so forgive me in advance if you were being sarcastic.
There was no comment in the article about the lady's health or her relatives. I know 76 year olds that I'd put up against Tonya Harding and they might win - and some who can barely get to the bathroom.
So, you think, what, that she egged him on - that she thought it was okay to be raped so didn't fight it - that she should have had the presence of mind to live with a male relative (probably non-existent, and if existing, probably not willing to live there.)
Hello?
Freak of the Week Alert! :o
It would be shrinking the government by a HUGE measure to replace the massive welfare and prison programs with an IUD/Norplant handout program. Nearly every one of those unwanted welfare-and-prison class babies that gets born ends up costing the welfare state hundreds of thousands of dollars over its lifetime.
Do you know if she's still running that program? I remember thinking I ought to send her money, and I still think I should.
Attempted rape? The boy's a sick bastard, and he deserves Juvy Hall until at least 18. That should make him think...
Oh
You mean he is a Los Angeles Lakers fan.
They came to LA from Milwaukee if I recall correctly.
I'm asking a procedural question, not advocating less punishment. Why, if he did not succeed in raping someone, is he charged with rape? We don't charge unsuccessful killers with murder; they get "attempted murder."
This is too effing sick for comment.
It's crappy reporting per the headline. The entity was charged with "sexual assault", not rape.
Want to bet the kid is a porn addict ?
The trouble with relying on PP to provide contraceptives is that 1) the girls/women who are responsible and sane enough to go there before getting pregnant, aren't the ones who are having baby after baby and dumping them on the streets, and 2) with adolescents/teens, PP has a hard core ideology that they have to be allowed "make their own decisions" -- which often translates into relying on the pill or condoms, which they then proceed not to use regularly. Out-of-control, unsupervised adolescents have NO business making their own decisions about anything that really matters.
I remember years ago a friend of mine was working as a counselor at an abortion clinic (an independent one, not PP, but they all have pretty much the same philosophy). A black inner-city mother brought her pregnant 11-year-old daughter in for an abortion. The girl was telling her (skeptical) mom that she'd been raped, but was telling the counselor otherwise. And she was also telling the counselor she wasn't sure she wanted the abortion. The counselor -- a white college student from a well-to-do family -- explained to the mother that they couldn't do the abortion until the girl consented, "because she has to make her own decision". The mother went ballistic, yelling "What the h*ll do you mean? She's 11 years old! Chain her down if you have to!".
IMO, this mother had a lot more common sense than the abortion clinic's management. The girl didn't get the abortion at the clinic, but probably ended up getting it somewhere else -- quite possibly a "back alley" type establishment. And if this poor mother subsequently tried to get an IUD or Norplant for her wayward daughter, she'd surely run into the same obstacle at this clinic or a PP clinic. The kid was probably pregnant again before her 13th birthday.
I'm not sure kids like this even bother with porn. They just watch each other and their older friends and siblings having sex (voluntary and otherwise).
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