A Gang Rape at Richmond High

Police: As many as 20 present at gang rape outside school dance
October 28, 2009 9:03 a.m. EDT

Richmond, California (CNN) — Investigators say as many as 20 people were involved in or stood and watched the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance Saturday night.
Police posted a $20,000 reward Tuesday for anyone who comes to them with information that helps arrest and convict those involved in what authorities describe as a 2½-hour assault on the Richmond High School campus in suburban San Francisco.
Two teenage suspects have been jailed, but more arrests, as many as 20 total, are expected, according to a police detective.
“We will be making arrests continually as we develop probable cause,” said Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan. “With this number of people implicated in the incident we’re going to be making arrests on an ongoing basis.”

As many as 10 people were involved in the assault in a dimly lighted back alley at the school, while another 10 people watched without calling 911 to report it, police said.
A 1999 California law makes it illegal not to report a witnessed crime against a child, but the law applies only to children 14 and under.
“We do not have the ability to arrest people who witnessed the crime and did nothing,” Gagan said. “The law can be very rigid. We don’t have the authority to make an arrest.”
Charles Ramsey, a member of the Richmond school board, said the school district bears some responsibility for the attack. School administrators and police apparently weren’t watching the area as they should have, Ramsey said.
The school said it would hold a safety meeting for parents and students Wednesday evening to address the assault.
The victim was found unconscious under a bench shortly before midnight Saturday, after police received a call from someone in the area who had overheard people at the assault scene “reminiscing about the incident,” Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan said.

The girl was flown by helicopter to a hospital where she was admitted in critical condition. She was in stable condition Tuesday, police said.
Investigators canvassed the community with fliers, which included the reward offer, hoping to identify more suspects Tuesday.
“There is one individual in custody who has made some spontaneous statements that have led me to believe that he is culpable for what happened,” Richmond police Lt. Johan Simon said.
Nineteen-year-old Manuel Ortega, described as a former student at the school, was arrested soon after he fled the scene and will face charges of rape, robbery and kidnapping, police said.
A 15-year-old was later arrested and charged with one count of felony sexual assault. A third teenager was being interviewed, Gagan said.
“Based on witness statements and suspect statements, and also physical evidence, we know that she was raped by at least four suspects committing multiple sex acts,” Gagan said.
“As people announced over time that this was going on, more people came to see, and some actually participated,” Gagan said.
The attack occurred on school grounds as the annual homecoming dance was under way inside the school Saturday night, authorities said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/27/california.gang.rape.investigation/index.html

Southern Fried Justice For Child Rape

Amanda Cunningham said she vividly recalls the day her Uncle Coy raped her.

“I remember I had my purple Little Mermaid shirt on,” she told ABC
News. “He told me to take my clothes off, and I said no, so he took them off me.”

A mother’s decision to protect her family results in murder. She was 9 years old. Coy Hundley was drunk, Amanda said, but that wasn’t unusual. He would rape her again a few months later, she testified in court.

Nearly five years later, in the fall of 2003, Amanda’s mother,
Kimberly Cunningham, finally learned of the alleged attacks. What
happened next was the talk of Knoxville, Tenn., for years.

Kimberly got into her car and drove to the tool company where Hundley worked. She called him out into the parking lot. Cunningham said that she was praying he would deny the rape. Instead, she said Hundley, 39, laughed at her.

“What are you going to do about it?” he allegedly said.

Kimberly shot him five times, reloaded the weapon and fired five more rounds, killing him.

“I’ll never forget him laughing at me,” she testified at trial,
according to court transcripts.

Witnesses said that after Kimberly shot Hundley, she got back into her car, pulled out of the parking lot and up to the road, put her blinker on and calmly drove away.  Forty-five minutes later, she was in the Alcoa, Tenn., Police Department, turning in her nickel-plated revolver and telling police there had been a shooting.

“The person who is a good mother and in control — and I’m a
compassionate person — was completely gone,” Kimberly told ABC News.

“You wouldn’t believe how tiny she was,” Kimberly said, her voice
cracking. “This little thing, she wasn’t more than 42 pounds, and for someone to do such vulgar things to her … there [sic] is simply no words to describe what happened … I just totally lost control.”

On an audiotape of the police interrogation obtained by ABC News,
Kimberly can be heard sobbing. “He raped my baby!” she told police.

In her first trial in April 2005, a Knoxville jury acquitted her of
first degree murder, but deadlocked on second degree murder. In a
second trial in October 2005, the jury acquitted Kimberly of second
degree murder, but found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to four years in prison, a sentence that was recently reduced on appeal to six months in prison.

“If she hadn’t reloaded that gun,” said Carl Eppolito, a juror from
the second trial, “I would have let her walk.”

For the tight-knit town of Knoxville, nestled in the shadow of the
Smoky Mountains, the case posed the thorniest of questions: What would you do if you believed your child had been raped?

I’ll just let Ya’ll wonder what my answer would be!  Happy Holidays! PL

Welcome to the world of child pornography on the Internet

WARNING: 

MATURE CONTENT.  READER DISCRETION ADVISED! 

Statement of Sheriff Michael J. Brown

Bedford County, Virginia

19 September 2006

Washington, DC 

 

Prepared for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

Senator McCain and distinguished members of this committee, thank you for inviting me to testify before you today. 

My name is Mike Brown; I am the Sheriff of Bedford County, VA, home of the National D-Day Memorial. I am a retired federal agent with 42 years of law enforcement experience on a local, national and international level.   Since 1998, I have directed a Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.or, to shorten that a bit.an ICAC Task Force named Operation Blue Ridge Thunder. Our task force is responsible for Virginia and West Virginia, with the exception of five counties in Northern Virginia which are ably protected by the Virginia State Police ICAC Task Force. 

I will not take up your time, nor my allotted time, by giving you a lot of statistics. your staffers are quite capable of researching this subject and providing you with reams and reams of stats, charts and graphs about children and the Internet, porn and the Internet, sexual solicitation over the Internet, unwanted exposure to sexual material, etc. You asked that I address what, if any, appropriate controls might be placed on child pornography on the Internet, and how the government can help. 

 

First, let me give you an idea of what goes on in this cesspool of child porn on the Internet.what we hear and a description of what we see.

On any given day an ICAC Task Force Investigator, assigned to any of the 46 task forces, will view the following:  

The investigators are looking at a young female, as young as 3 to 4 years of age (the images can be either digital images or videos). there is a look of stark fear on her face. She is being forced to perform any number of graphic sexual acts with an adult male or males.oral sex, vaginal sex, anal sex; many of the images have another adult male ejaculating on this young girl, most of the time on her face. Image after image.video after video.hundreds of thousands of them!  

Parry Aftab, Cyber-Lawyer described the scene best, and I paraphrase:   “In most of the videos the cameraman has the young female facing the camera. All of her, and his, genitalia are graphically displayed in the video.close up, wide angle, overhead, side.a flash or special lighting is clearly being used and shone in her face to illuminate the graphic rape. The little girl was not only being painfully molested, she was forced to bear the additional humiliation of being filmed at the same time. Unable to stop the rape, she did the only thing she could do to protect herself: She shut her eyes. Most parents understand this gesture. When our children are very young, they think that by closing their eyes they become invisible. They stand in front of us, thinking that if they can’t see us, we can’t see them. “Mommy, can you see me?” is the game of the day, and we all pretend that we can’t.  We call out to them, “Where are you? We can’t see you!” pretending to look everywhere for them. The game ends with lots of giggling, tickling, laughter, and hugs. This little girl’s attempt to be invisible would end very differently”..  

ICAC Task Force investigators, and other investigators working in local, state and federal cyber units, see these images every day.it use to be just (forgive me, how do I say .just.) one dimensional images, now it’s video.streams and if you look hard enough it can be live .stream. video. One of the most sought-after videos at this time is one of an adult male attempting to sexually penetrate what appears to be a 2 to 3 year old female. He removes her diaper at the start of the video. Investigator O.Neal mentions this in his recorded comments to this committee.   

There is a 40 second video clip, according to Department R, Russian Police (Unit in charge of hi-tech crimes), where two sexual predators have sex  with  a young girl  (10/12  years old?) after which they stab her, cut off her ears and smash her face to a bloody pulp. This clip, as reported by the Russian police, was first  noticed  by the US authorities. US police experts assert that the video footage represents real activity, not imitation.

Our investigators routinely pose as children, young teens, and like minded adults, in chat rooms on the Internet. Posing as a child they simply place their profile in the chat room, usually a 12, 13, 14 year old female.and then just sit back and wait. In a nana second they begin to be .hit. on by the sexual predator surfing the web for his next victim. Sometimes the predator takes his time and tries to schmooze his way in. More often that not, they simply open the conversation with, .What are you wearing, how big are your breasts (and I.m being polite), do you want to have sex, if I send you a video cam would you masturbate for me, would you like to see me masturbate, how far have you and your boyfriend gone.oral sex, anal sex, vaginal sex, are you a virgin, do you like to perform oral sex, how big is your boy friend.s penis, would you like to have sex with a real man with abig penis, would you like for someone to urinate/defecate on you.. andthen offers or just sends porn pictures.sometimes adult, often child. 

When posing as a like minded adult they are often engaged by parents or care-takers wanting them to share in the abuse, and or sexual exploitation of children in their care. These care takers and parents are often the persons responsible for the manufacturing and distribution of the horrific pictures and videos available on the web today.

END

 

 

All my hopes and respect go out to Sheriff Brown.  I hope that many other law enforcement agencies follow his lead.  This stuff makes me crazier than I can tell you.  Bottom line is that you are either with us or against us!  No grey tones here!

CHOOSE YOUR SIDE NOW BECAUSE THIS WAR IS JUST GETTING STARTED?!  PL