ONE FAMILY’S NIGHTMARE....

Subject: ONE FAMILY’S NIGHTMARE.... Tue Oct 22, 2013 11:38 am

We are appalled over the situation in foreign countries, but the "old boy" network is still in play right here at home:

Quote :: ONE FAMILY’S NIGHTMARE FOLLOWING TEEN DAUGHTER’S ALLEGED RAPE
the past few years, Melinda Coleman and her children have lived through a number of hellish tragedies. They have endured the death of her husband and the children’s father, the loss of her job and a fire that destroyed the family’s home.
But from the ashes of the family’s difficulties also comes the fallout after one daughter said she was raped. The Coleman family, according to The Kansas City Star, faced an onslaught of hate and disdain in their small city of Maryville, Mo., after a high school senior allegedly had sex with the family’s then-14-year-old daughter, Daisy.
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It all started when Daisy slipped out of the house with her 13-year-old friend in the middle of the night on Jan. 7, 2012. The two went to the home of a popular football player, Matthew Barnett, whom Daisy had been communicating with through text messages.
While partying at the house, Daisy apparently drank too much alcohol. It was during this time that Barnett allegedly had sex with her. Simultaneously, another boy allegedly raped her 13-year-old friend (the sexual encounter between Barnett and Daisy was also reportedly captured on video, but the footage was never recovered by authorities).
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The next morning, Coleman discovered her daughter barely conscious on the front porch. Despite the temperature being just 22 degrees, Daisy was wearing only a T-shirt and sweatpants, with her purse, shoes and cell phone scattered and her hair frozen. It’s estimated she was outdoors for about three hours.
The mother initially assumed Daisy had been sleep-walking, because her 13-year-old friend was asleep upstairs in the bedroom, and Coleman had seen the girls the night before playing in Daisy’s room, the reality was much different.
Coleman brought her daughter inside and into the bathroom to give her a warm bath. But she noticed that there was redness around Daisy’s genital area. When her daughter started crying, Melinda Coleman said she immediately knew what had happened.
After calling 911 to report the incident, the family’s problems intensified. Police got involved, made arrests and handled the situation accordingly — at first. The Star reported:
One by one that Sunday morning, the boys were rounded up and brought to the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office for questioning.
Barnett, who was arrested and charged with sexual assault, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, admitted to having sex with Daisy and to being aware that she had been drinking. He insisted the sex was consensual.
Barnett was not charged with statutory rape, as that Missouri law generally applies in cases when a victim is under 14 years old or the perpetrator is over 21. But felony statutes also define sex as non-consensual when the victim is incapacitated by alcohol.ok the brunt of the angst that followed. Many locals supported the girls, but there was apparently a large portion that were unsympathetic, waging attacks and threats against the Colemans on social media and making it clear that they stood in solidarity with Barnett and the other boys.
And that wasn’t the end of it: just two weeks after the incident, Coleman lost her job at Maryville’s SouthPaws Veterinary Clinic, with her boss purportedly citing the case and its distractions as the reason.
Despite the job loss and the ongoing attacks, the family had high hopes that justice would be served, but prosecutors later determined — to the surprise of authorities and medical personnel — that there was not a solid case against Barnett. As a result, charges were dismissed.
The Kansas City Star highlighted many of the political and social ties that community leaders had to the boys who were at Barnett’s house the night of the alleged rape. Many — including the Colemans — believe that political favors, personal allegiance and Daisy’s status as a community outsider with no solid roots in Maryville all contributed to the the closure of the case (locals have denied these accusations).

Subject: Re: ONE FAMILY’S NIGHTMARE.... Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:22 pm

What a horrific situation.

4/12/2014 " DISGUSTING !!" Joe

4/12/2014

" DISGUSTING !!"

Joe

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