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Title: Irishman seeks justice for his gang-raped teenage daughter
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Irish Times
URL Source: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper ... d/2009/1219/1224260979380.html
Published: Dec 19, 2009
Author: Lara Marlowe
Post Date: 2009-12-21 18:57:11 by Prefrontal Vortex
Keywords: None
Views: 345
Comments: 36
AMERICA: The rapists were only put on probation, with the judge saying the crime was ‘waiting to happen’, writes LARA MARLOWE A YEAR after the crime, Séamus T’s voice still quivers when he recalls how he found his daughter Erin, then 15, lying on the roadside on the night of January 3rd, 2009. “Daddy, Daddy, get them off me,” she kept moaning. The girl was semi-conscious, and was soaking wet because her assailants had put her under a shower to wash vomit and menstrual blood off her after they gang-raped her. Séamus T, an Irishman who left Dublin 25 years ago, continues his job as an executive in a mechanical contracting firm, but he has spent much of the past year seeking justice for Erin. The ordeal started as a cosy reunion of three high-school girls after the holidays. Séamus T dropped his daughter off at an apartment in Gaithersburg, Maryland, at 8.30pm, and was to have picked her up three hours later. Boys showed up at the party. “They gave her ‘jungle juice’, 100 per cent grain alcohol,” Séamus T explains. Doctors at Shady Grove hospital later found Erin had almost three times the legal limit in her blood. Three teenagers, then aged 16 and 17, planned the rape. One waited in the bathroom while the other two dragged Erin in. When the district attorney read through the medical report at a seven-hour hearing on September 30th, Erin’s family heard how the attackers tore flesh on three of the girl’s body orifices. She banged her head when she fell against the bath tub, and was covered in bruises. Had the three young men not boasted of their crime, they would not have been identified, because Erin cannot remember the rape. They were arrested in late February, spent a couple of months in jail, and were freed pending the hearing. Erin was taunted by other students, who accused her of “snitching”’ on the rapists. The girl was so traumatised that she slept with her mother or older sister until she went to live with relatives in Nevada, at her request. The case shifted from adult to juvenile court, and Séamus T learned in September that two of the three rapists were back at Magruder High School. He filed a complaint with the board of education, and succeeded in having them transferred. “My daughter was the only white kid at the party,” Séamus T says. “I don’t think the attack was racially motivated, but there were racial and class undertones in the courtroom. On one side you had the three rapists, an aunt and two single mothers, all African-Americans. On the other side, everyone was white and middle class.” Montgomery county circuit court judge Steven Salant so enraged Séamus T that he filed a complaint with the Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities, the body that disciplines judges, on the grounds his daughter “was not treated with dignity and respect” as required by the state constitution. Salant did not respond to The Irish Times’s request for comment, which was made through the court’s spokesman. Séamus T says Salant blamed the victim and made excuses for the rapists, who he sentenced to probation only. As recounted by the Gaithersburg Gazette newspaper, the judge described the gang-rape as “horrific”, but focused on Erin’s behaviour on the night of the party. The victim was drunk and “engaged in risky and provocative behaviour” such as sitting on people’s laps and talking about “hooking up”, Salant said in court. “This was a disaster waiting to happen . . . There was a dynamic at work here. “There were things going on here. It doesn’t make the respondents any less worthy of blame, but what it does mean is I have to determine whether what we have here is sexual predators or respondents who . . . did not get that when a girl is intoxicated and presents herself in that manner you do not take advantage.” “We were devastated as a family. We were destroyed,” says Séamus T. “We went to court expecting some compassion. The system is upside down and backwards. The judge was worried about the rapists staying in school, getting evaluated, getting counselling and transportation. Everything is lavished on them. Nobody knocked on my door and said, ‘I’ll show you through the system’.” Séamus T’s appeals to first lady Michelle Obama, Maryland governor Martin O’Malley and state attorney John McCarthy have gone unanswered. He was treated with kindness by the Irish Embassy, which promised to intervene if he felt he was not being treated as a US citizen would be. The state legislature has provided the most hope of redress. Kathleen Dumais, a Maryland state delegate, and Nancy King, a Maryland state senator, have taken up the case. Dumais is drafting legislation that would ban juvenile sex offenders from attending normal public schools and place their names on a register. If passed, it may be called Erin’s law.
Poster Comment: Stupid Irishman. Don't send your kids to school with n-words, let alone let your kids play with them.
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#1. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
Thing is, naive people from other countries who haven't seen the gang rap culture up close and personal think it's all just an image, and have been brainwashed to believe that they are simply nice people just pretending to be animals. The poor Irish girl was probably expecting them all to act like gentleman, since that what she's seen on TV shows. The dad was probably as ignorant as her, and didn't want to see himself as a "racist" for saying no to his daughter when she wanted to hang out with them. If this sort of thing continues though, I can see some serious backlash occuring, vigilante style.
No shit. If they did that to my daughter, the only trial going on would be for my triple murder.
Obama's health care plan shall be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, signed by a president who smokes and has no birth certificate, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is overweight and financed by a country that is nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong? - buckeroo If they did that to my daughter, the only trial going on would be for my triple “I don’t think the attack was racially motivated, ......three rapists, an aunt and two single mothers, all African-Americans. On the other side, everyone was white and middle class.” Seamus, you're a nitwit's nitwit
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
We're getting there.
Amen, but it looks like Seamus is missing a pair.
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
Stupid.
In Texas maybe, but most other states, I'd at least be charged with murder. :)
Obama's health care plan shall be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, signed by a president who smokes and has no birth certificate, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is overweight and financed by a country that is nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong? - buckeroo Always remember, they have to catch you, in order to charge you. Be smarter than they - and that's not that much of a trick. Safe and well.
I'm not sure why Seamus thought that things were better here than in Ireland (?), where I hear that most things are going very well over there. At least they weren't stupid enough to buy a bunch of slaves back when.
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respondents? what was this, survey? No, it is not acceptable in any culture to gang rape anyone, hang these scum.
In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report. Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject. deleted
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U-Fuckin betcha !!!
Doing what's right isn't always easy but it's always right.
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Nobody knocked on my door and said, ‘I’ll show you how this AK-47 works.”
Doing what's right isn't always easy but it's always right.
The American culture has so damaged white kids that they openly reject their heritage and seek to become something they aren't. He is a stupid Irishman for not seeing the propagenda and the degenerate culture he allowed his daughter to wander about in.
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Just, amen.
On second thought, I like the term "respondents", makes them out to be like used up lab supplies. Perfect.
In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report. Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject. That's the Maryland that I know! If you look up the judge's bio,you can see he is a dedicated Jewish leftie that made a career out of helping minorities in street clinics,and who got a masters in Political Science before law school. There wasn't anything that honkie and probably Catholic bitch COULD be was guilty of giving it up to those fine young black men,and then charging them with rape. It's the honkie in her that make her do that. He even said in court she lead them on.
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At least the liquor stores are open on Sundays
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
That's something, anyway. At least all the drunks aren't forced into Olive Garden every Sunday morning to beg the waitress for another bottle of chianti.
In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report. Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject. Have you been following me, again?
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
i always thought it was. i was born and raised there. left in '80 and haven't missed it even a little bit.
"The Ponzi scheme that is our fiat currency system is about to go the way of what was for a time the symbol of American superiority, General Motors... As I claimed in 2005 that GM would go bankrupt, I will now guarantee that the US government is soon to follow... We will default. We will restructure. It will be at this point our arrogance will end." -- Greg Simmons and Brett Buchanan of Scope Labs
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Respondent is a term used in civil and marital matters, not criminal cases. The jerkoff thought he was still presiding over some divorce case or something. The proper term is DEFENDENT, or in this case, DEFENDENTS. Well, those are the legal terms are least, I can think of more accurate names for them.
Wow, aren't you a shameful excuse for a human being? Just another piece of white trash seeking solace in insulting other races? You can pretend your skin color makes you something special, but you are still trash.
You might be able to sell that drivel at ElPee, FreepTardia or some other TeeVee & PC-addled shithole, but around here the facts speak for themselves. It's called reality, my man. Try it sometime.
Go tell the fine folk in Bed Sty, as they separate you from your property, that your mother and father weren't slave owners. Plead your case on the soapbox of diversity and multiculturalism. I'm certain the kids with the saggy ass pants and low IQs will cut you a break.
Making this about "skin color" is a gross simplification.
Stupid Irishman. Don't send your kids to school with n-words, let alone let your kids play with them.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#2. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
Stupid Irishman.
Let me get this straight.
#3. To: Critter (#2)
murder justice served.
#4. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
“My daughter was the only white kid at the party,” Séamus T says.
#5. To: FormerLurker (#1)
" I can see some serious backlash occuring, vigilante style."
#6. To: Lod (#3)
justice served.
#7. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
“My daughter was the only white kid at the party,” Séamus T says.
#8. To: Lod (#3)
If they did that to my daughter, the only trial going on would be for my justice served.
Let me get this straight.
#9. To: Critter. all (#8)
#10. To: Flintlock, Cynicom, Critter, all (#6)
#11. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
#12. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
“There were things going on here. It doesn’t make the respondents any less worthy of blame, but what it does mean is I have to determine whether what we have here is sexual predators or respondents who . . . did not get that when a girl is intoxicated and presents herself in that manner you do not take advantage.”
#13. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
#14. To: FormerLurker (#1)
#15. To: Critter (#2)
If they did that to my daughter, the only trial going on would be for my triple murder.
#16. To: Critter (#2)
#17. To: Flintlock (#6)
#18. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
Nobody knocked on my door and said, ‘I’ll show you through the system’.”
#19. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
Stupid Irishman. Don't send your kids to school with n-words, let alone let your kids play with them.
#20. To: Dakmar (#12)
#21. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
#22. To: Dakmar, all (#12)
No, it is not acceptable in any culture to gang rape anyone, hang these scum.
#23. To: Eric Stratton (#20)
The good judge is obviously a world class coward and pussy!
#24. To: Eric Stratton (#11)
They were arrested in late February, spent a couple of months in jail, and were freed pending the hearing.
#25. To: Dakmar (#23)
#26. To: Eric Stratton (#25)
Maryland scares me,
#27. To: Flintlock (#26)
At least the liquor stores are open on Sundays
#28. To: Dakmar (#27)
forced into Olive Garden every Sunday morning to beg the waitress for another bottle of chianti.
#29. To: Eric Stratton (#11)
Don't live in Maryland, the place is a shithole!
#30. To: Flintlock (#26)
#31. To: christine (#29)
#32. To: Dakmar (#23)
On second thought, I like the term "respondents", makes them out to be like used up lab supplies. Perfect.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#33. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
Don't send your kids to school with n-words,
#34. To: Patriot Henry (#33)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#35. To: Patriot Henry (#33)
#36. To: Patriot Henry (#33)
You can pretend your skin color
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