Technicality results in rape charge against 14-year-old girl
Categories: Teens & tweens, Health & safety, In the news, Weird but true
A teen girl in Kansas has found herself in a waking nightmare, charged with rape of a thirteen-year-old boy. The girl, who wishes to remain anonymous, was fourteen at the time of the alleged crime and she claims she was the one violated, not the other way around.
She tells a local news channel that she and three friends were spending a Saturday night together, watching movies and just hanging out. When two of her friends left the room, she says the thirteen year old boy forced himself on her. About a month later, she visited her school counselor to talk about what happened. "I wanted help because it was my first time and I was scared," she says.
The counselor went to the police and here's where things get even more messed up: the cops charged the girl with rape and criminal sodomy. No, it wasn't a paperwork error. Under Kansas law, sex with anyone under the age of fourteen is considered rape, even if it is consensual. Obviously the boy consented to the sex, but because he was under fourteen and the girl was over fourteen, he was raped.
The girl is telling her story because she wants people to know what is happening to her. Her lawyer, Sean Shores, is so outraged that he is defending her free of charge. "She went to her counselor, she asked for help, reached out for help and the message they sent her was--she should have kept her mouth shut," says Shores.
The message I am getting here is that common sense is dead. And buried in a steel box in the center of the earth. Let's hope they can dig it up before this girl's trial begins next month.
She tells a local news channel that she and three friends were spending a Saturday night together, watching movies and just hanging out. When two of her friends left the room, she says the thirteen year old boy forced himself on her. About a month later, she visited her school counselor to talk about what happened. "I wanted help because it was my first time and I was scared," she says.
The counselor went to the police and here's where things get even more messed up: the cops charged the girl with rape and criminal sodomy. No, it wasn't a paperwork error. Under Kansas law, sex with anyone under the age of fourteen is considered rape, even if it is consensual. Obviously the boy consented to the sex, but because he was under fourteen and the girl was over fourteen, he was raped.
The girl is telling her story because she wants people to know what is happening to her. Her lawyer, Sean Shores, is so outraged that he is defending her free of charge. "She went to her counselor, she asked for help, reached out for help and the message they sent her was--she should have kept her mouth shut," says Shores.
The message I am getting here is that common sense is dead. And buried in a steel box in the center of the earth. Let's hope they can dig it up before this girl's trial begins next month.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
eugene 6-28-2008 @ 5:35PM
What the hell? We have Mass Rep (d) James Fagan saying he would like to destroy child rape victims on the stand and now we have idiot cops charging the victim with the crime?
This country has lost its mind. It's time for juries to start taking control of the system, give hung juries to people who take out these examples of human filth and throw them parades afterwards. If the moral degenerates who run the show can't be trusted to any longer it's time to vote them all out of office.
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shereeset 6-28-2008 @ 6:42PM
I hope the counselor was at least fired for violating the girl's rights. This is ridiculous.
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Bob 6-28-2008 @ 7:18PM
What kind of logic is this. Are lovely laws at work once again.
Next they will throw in a adult prison! Or hey better yet, lets excute her. We elect these lawmakers and look what we hire for our schools. It's rocket science to them. Here's a great idea,fire the judge,prosecutor,police and the counselor and the govenor who signed that law. We have aa,na oea, why not MORONS anonomous.
Best of luck to both those kids. they really need help!
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Sheri 6-28-2008 @ 8:22PM
I understand that the councilor couldn't keep her/his mouth shut, because it was a crime against a minor, sick and twisted as it may be. They all have to be reported, or he/she could have been charged herself/himself.
But for them to actually prosecute her is insane. It's beyond insane. It's pitiful.
And I would be ashamed if I were the Governor, the prosecutor, or the judge.
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Inger 6-29-2008 @ 10:33AM
I was doing an internship at the local crisis center when this came up - which as a little while ago! There was also some alcohol involved (both had been drinking) and the girl "woke up" during the incident and started trying to get him off of her. At which point it became rape because he didn't stop. But because they were both drinking the local police are totally blaming her saying she seduced him and 'of course he couldn't stop' and that she was sending 'mixed signals'. They also say that she is crying rape because her boyfriend (one of the 2 friends that left, and they left to get more alcohol) was the one who came back and found them.
Hope this helps people from wondering if there was more to this story!
Oh - and it is COMPLETELY reprehensible that she is being charged!!!! It is actually HIS mother that is responsible for that little act
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Gloria 7-01-2008 @ 9:05AM
What I don't understand is the sodomy charge???
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zdcmaughan 4-20-2009 @ 8:00AM
Cindy, I have to ask this question. Have you read your own posting? If not maybe you should. Try reading it out loud. Then write us another one and tell us what you really wanted to say. This one got lost in translation.
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