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Editor's note: The following column is not appropriate reading material for children. It is not for squeamish adults. It contains graphic details of a heinous crime. In the news business, you've got to have a strong stomach. It's like being a cop. You get to see the darkest side of a dark world. And what you see, hear and read is often unforgettable – and not in a good way. The case of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising continues to haunt me since I first wrote about it 10 years ago – before anyone else in the national press. The details of...

The Death of Jesse Dirkhising Ignored by the Media Not A Hate Crime By Joseph Farah / WorldNetDaily.com His parents thought he was working as a hair stylist on weekends. But when Prairie Grove, Ark., police responded to a 911 emergency call at 5 a.m. Sept. 26, they found 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising on the floor, unconscious, near death, one of his wrists bound with duct tape. A half-hour later, he was pronounced dead at St. Mary's Hospital in Roger. A police investigation determined young Jesse was repeatedly raped over a period of hours, including with foreign objects. While enduring this...

Monday, December 13, 2004 The trouble with hate crimes Posted: December 13, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Parent's are advised that the following column contains information that may not be appropriate for children. By Joseph Farah © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com His parents thought he was working as a hair stylist on weekends. But when Prairie Grove, Ark., police responded to a 911 emergency call at 5 a.m., Sept. 26, 1999, they found 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising on the floor, unconscious, near death, one of his wrists bound with duct tape. His genitals and abdomen were covered with feces. His mouth was blue. He had...

A 13-year-old boy in Arkansas dies after a horrific sexual crime but much of the national media ignore the story. Conservative columnists and other critics think they know why — because the boy's accused killers are gay. "[The media] doesn't want the public to think about homosexuality and pedophilia and torture and the murder of children," says Don Feder, a conservative columnist at the Boston Herald. The boy, Jesse Dirkhising, was bound, drugged, tortured and raped for five hours before he died in 1999. Last month, a jury convicted Joshua Brown, 23, of rape and murder. Brown was sentenced to...

Permissive Parenting Contributed to Killing of Jesse Dirkhising - Parents didn’t mind him spending time with homosexual men - By Allyson Smith Jesse Dirkhising 7th grade yearbook photo Lincoln Middle School Second of two parts The following is the second of a two-part article commemorating the third anniversary of the sadistic rape-killing of Jesse Dirkhising, a 13-year-old boy from Prairie Grove, Arkansas, on September 26, 1999. Young Jesse was found near death at the apartment of 33-year-old family friend and hairdresser Davis Carpenter, after a night of grotesque sodomitic abuse at the hands of Carpenter’s 22-year-old homosexual lover, Joshua Brown....