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Friday, November 12, 2010

Why Didn't She Tell Someone She Was Raped?

14 year old girl bullied after reporting rape.

Beyond words.
Teen Rape Victim Commits Suicide After Bullying

Taunted and ridiculed for reporting.

collegenews.com
more HERE

Rape charges dropped after 14-year-old bullied girl committed suicide in Wayne County, Michigan

14 year-old rape victim's suicide in Michigan. Links HERE and HERE

Links to this story: Detroit Free Press Columnist
BY ROCHELLE RILEY
DETROIT FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

"The most important thing isn't that a Huron Township mother let her barely teenage daughter
go on TV and say she was raped -- although that traumatic a disclosure is hard for any grown
woman to handle.

The most important thing isn't that a TV station would record a 14-year-old claiming she was raped -- although time was that the names of rape victims weren't allowed on TV or in newspapers. And for good reason.

No, the most important thing is that a 14-year-

old girl killed herself. She is dead. Gone before

her Sweet 16 birthday. Gone before senior prom

and graduation and dreams of college. And the

reason she killed herself came way before she

was
taunted and bullied
to death at her school.

It happened before the TV appearance with her

mother, which reportedly enraged some

knuckleheaded teens who then made her life

miserable.
No, the reason she killed herself is because an

18-year-old neighbor who goes to the same

high school broke the law.
In Michigan, it is illegal to have sex with a 14-

year-old girl. There are no extenuating

circumstances. There are no ways for a minor to

consent. It is illegal -- for a reason. Fourteen-

year-olds cannot make decisions about sex.

They are too damn young.

So why did Joseph Tarnopolski, who is legally a

man, walk out of a courtroom, charges

dismissed? Because the prosecutors were

cowards who refused to enforce the law. And

that is what's wrong with Michigan's law, which

was designed to protect young girls, deter older

boys and hopefully decrease the pregnancy and

abortion rates.
Tarnopolski confessed in an interview with

police. He said he had sex with the 14-year-old.

He should not be excused or slapped on the

wrist because a frightened teen, led by her

mother's need for publicity, gave prosecutors

one story and TV reporters another. Who knows

what pressure she may have been under to say,

what? Who knows who pushed her to reveal such

detail.

Doesn't matter. The law doesn't need a confused,

barely teenage girl to charge a man with rape.

The law does it for her.

The intent at the time the law was passed was so

strong that it's a felony punishable by up to 15

years in prison and 25 years on Michigan's public

sex offender list. That's serious.

Oh, and there is one more crime that happened in

this case, besides a law being ignored. It is a

crime that has gotten an increasing amount of

attention in recent months, particularly involving

gay teens.

Bullying.

Bullying is a hate crime.
This is 2010, and whispers in the cafeteria have

been replaced by written posts on hundreds of

Web sites that are connected to hundreds of

other Web sites, a network that can transform a

whisper into universal humiliation.

There ought to be a law against bullying. Oh,

wait. There is.A year ago, President Barack Obama signed a law

making it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. That doesn't go far enough. The law should be amended to make it a crime to assault individuals because they are human. And there should be a law to protect 14-year-old girls from making decisions about sex. Oh, wait! There is. It's just not always enforced.

I haven't recounted details in the case of the

Huron Township 14-year-old who hanged

herself after finding life too hard to bear. I am

not using her name. There are already too many

lurid details and wrong conversations that teens

are having about something as serious as sex.
Our kids are mating like rabbits and we think

there's nothing to be done because it's the times,

it's uncool to complain or because abortions are

a dime a dozen.

Shame on us.

Because what matters most is that a girl is dead,

and if we no longer plan to use the law to deter

underage sex, then we may as well take the law

off the books. And that would be a damn shame,

too."

This column many be found HERE: http://www.freep.com/article/20101112/COL10/11120373/1008/NEWS06/Teens-suicide-in-Huron-Township-is-simply-tragic

Another here: http://www.modernmom.com/hottopic/2010/nov/12/14-year-old-samantha-kelly-commits-suicide-after-b/

Monday, November 8, 2010

Sexual Assault, Torture and Murder in Connecticut Leads to Death Sentence for Hayes

For every one of these horrifyingly sad stories, another 100 are not mentioned here. This post does not have the most grisly details. Breaking story video and pics HERE
It's Death for Hayes: A New Haven jury has decided Steven Hayes should die for his part in the murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, in Cheshire.

Regarding diary of Co-defendant Joshua Komisarjevsky HERE. images here.
Inside the Mind HERE

By DIANA PEREZ, BRYNN GINGRAS, BOB CONNORS and LEANNE GENDREAU

Updated 1:44 PM EST, Mon, Nov 8, 2010

Photo Evidence From Hayes Murder Trial State of Connecticut

"Jurors and members of the Petit family cried as the clerk read the verdicts and Judge Jon Blue warned everyone to keep their emotions in check. Jurors returned the verdict on Monday, the day after a rare weekend court session. Hayes was charged with six capital felony counts, each of which carried possibility of the death penalty.
It took jurors four days of deliberating to reach the decision and they sentenced him to death on all six, making him the 10th person in the state to stand on death row.

The Perpetrator here: Steven Hayes
The evidence HERE. and Here
As Hayes was sentenced, he showed no emotion and just stared ahead at the clerk who read the verdicts. The official sentencing will be on Thursday, Dec. 2.
“I think the jury took its time to listed to the evidence and make an appropriate and just decision,” said Dr. William Petit, the only survivor of the home invasion.
Hayes’ defense attorney, Thomas Ullman, quoted Mahatma Gandhi when he spoke to the media after the verdict.
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind,” he said “We are devastated by the verdict and intend to fight this, tooth and nail.”
Dr. Petit broke down in tears in the courtroom and said later it was for the loss of his family.
Michaela was just a little girl, he said, and Hayley was strong and had a lot of potential. His wife was never allowed to carrying on the work she had done as a nurse, he said.
"Michaela was an 11-year-old kid, tortured and killed in her own bedroom," as she was surrounded by stuffed animals, Dr. Petit said. ""Fortunately in this case, justice delayed wasn't justice denied."

He added that this is not about revenge. "This is about justice," he said.

The Petit, Hawke and Renn families have stood together through the whole ordeal, Dr. Petit said, back to 2007, when the brutal crimes happened.
Petit was hospitalized when the time came to identify the bodies of his wife and daughters, so Jennifer’s sister, Johanna Petit Chapman, and his brother Glen went to identify the remains.

When they returned to Dr. Petit, he asked if they could have an open casket wake. They both looked at him, he said.
While the autopsy photos were never released to the media, the facts show that the women died of smoke inhallation in a burning home. The jury did see the autopsy photos, which brought them to tears.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell issued a statement soon after the verdict was released.

"“The crimes that were committed on that brutal July night were so far out of the range of normal understanding that now, more than three years later, we still find it difficult to accept that they happened in one of our communities," Rell said in a statement.
They sentenced him to death for felony murder of multiple victims and murder of a victim under the age of 16. Michaela Petit was 11 when she was killed.
They also sentenced him to death for the murder and kidnapping of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and the murder and kidnapping of Hayley, Jennifer's 17-year-old daughter.

He was also sentenced to death for the murder of Michaela during the kidnapping and for murder of the victim of sex assault --Jennifer Hawke Petit.
The jurors were crying as the clerk read through the form.

Before Hayes was dismissed from the courtroom, Blue told the jurors they are free to talk about the case. For the first time in the case, he told the marshals to "take the defendant away" in front of the jury.
“We are grateful that we are part of a society that feels that just some people do not deserve to live in God’s world,” Richard Hawke, Jennifer Hawke-Petit’s father, said.
The Cheshire home invasion case entered the most recent statewide debate on the death penalty. In 2009, Rell vetoed a House bill that sought to end the death penalty in the state and mentioned the brutal slayings.
“I have long believed that there are certain crimes so heinous, so depraved, that society is best served by imposing the ultimate sanction on the criminal. Steven Hayes stands convicted of such crimes – and today the jury has recommended that he should be subjected to the death penalty. I agree," Rell said."

Find this article at: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Its-Death-for-Hayes-106822803.html?dr