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Police: Father Abused Family for '15 Years or Longer'

Baltimore Sun

Dave Nethers Fox 8 Reporter

7:29 p.m. EDT, September 4, 2010

 

MADISON TWP., Ohio — " Police said what happened in the Ledge Road home of Jeffrey York for years only first became apparent after they got a call about a sex offense in December.

Two officers who went to the home were asked not only to make an official report of the crime, but were also asked by York's wife to help her and the couple's seven children leave.

In the months since, investigators say family members started telling them of mental and physical abuse, of being cut off from society and live in an environment where they were afraid to do anything about it."

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" The accusations have lead to an indictment of York on charges that include: two instances of rape involving a female under the age of 13, five instances of gross sexual imposition, six counts of child endangering, one count of aggravated menacing and five counts of domestic violence. . . " Read More

"No Class Issue in Coverage of Brown Rape Case?"

Crime & Federalism

April 15, 2010

   " To call Richard Dresdale a prominent Brown alumnus would be an understatement.  Richard Dresdale is Co-founder and Managing Director of Fenway Partners - a 2.1-billion-dollar private equity fund.  He is the kind of man who can afford to make $118,000 in campaign contributions - in 2008 alone.

When Richard Dresdale heard that his daughter claimed to have been raped, he behaved as all of us would have: He was outraged.  He picked up the phone.  He made calls.  He wanted the rapist punished.

That it seems almost certain that his daughter fabricated the rape accusation is irrelevant.  Why would a father doubt his daughter's word?  Mr. Dresdale's conduct is not just understandable - it's totally excusable.

Yet what Brown University is inexcusable.  Going against everything it teaches, Brown subordinated reason to emotion:

A former student has sued Brown University in federal court, saying university officials interfered with his efforts to clear his name after another student, the daughter of a prominent Brown alumnus and donor, accused him of rape. 

In documents unsealed Monday, the former student, William McCormick III, said the university had failed to follow its own disciplinary policies and sent him home to Wisconsin after the woman’s father made calls to top university officials.

On the same day that Mr. Dresdale called Brown, five Brown Deans ordered the falsely-accused student into an enclosed room.  They surrounded him.  They handed him a plane ticket, and told him to go home.

They did not investigate the rape accusation.  They did not attempt to substantiate the accusation.  They did not merely suspend the student for a semester pending an investigation.  They sent the farm boy back to Wisconsin - where he belonged.

Unlike Richard Dresdale, William McCormick III was poor.  He was attending Brown on an academic scholarship.  While earning straight-As, he was also a star wrestler.  He could not have afforded to attend Brown University without substantial financial aid.

Didn't this poor boy get kicked out of college, ultimately, for not belonging to the right social class?  If William McCormick's father had been Richard Dresdale, does anyone doubt that the case would have been handled differently?

Why didn't the New York Times focus on the unfair treatment this poor boy received?  Isn't it unfair when the super rich have poor people expelled without due process - and without any good cause at all?

There's a reason that the Times did not touch the class issue: To the liberal media, a person can commit no greater crime than being born white and male.  William McCormick III thus received the treatment he deserved."

Posted by Mike on April 15, 2010 |

When Richard Dresdale heard that his daughter claimed to have been raped, he behaved as all of us would have: He was outraged.  He picked up the phone.  He made calls.  He wanted the rapist punished.

That it seems almost certain that his daughter fabricated the rape accusation is irrelevant.  Why would a father doubt his daughter's word?  Mr. Dresdale's conduct is not just understandable - it's totally excusable.

Yet what Brown University is inexcusable.  Going against everything it teaches, Brown subordinated reason to emotion:

A former student has sued Brown University in federal court, saying university officials interfered with his efforts to clear his name after another student, the daughter of a prominent Brown alumnus and donor, accused him of rape. 

In documents unsealed Monday, the former student, William McCormick III, said the university had failed to follow its own disciplinary policies and sent him home to Wisconsin after the woman’s father made calls to top university officials.

On the same day that Mr. Dresdale called Brown, five Brown Deans ordered the falsely-accused student into an enclosed room.  They surrounded him.  They handed him a plane ticket, and told him to go home.

They did not investigate the rape accusation.  They did not attempt to substantiate the accusation.  They did not merely suspend the student for a semester pending an investigation.  They sent the farm boy back to Wisconsin - where he belonged.

Unlike Richard Dresdale, William McCormick III was poor.  He was attending Brown on an academic scholarship.  While earning straight-As, he was also a star wrestler.  He could not have afforded to attend Brown University without substantial financial aid.

Didn't this poor boy get kicked out of college, ultimately, for not belonging to the right social class?  If William McCormick's father had been Richard Dresdale, does anyone doubt that the case would have been handled differently?

Why didn't the New York Times focus on the unfair treatment this poor boy received?  Isn't it unfair when the super rich have poor people expelled without due process - and without any good cause at all?

There's a reason that the Times did not touch the class issue: To the liberal media, a person can commit no greater crime than being born white and male.  William McCormick III thus received the treatment he deserved."

Posted by Mike on April 15, 2010 |

"Feminists Encourage False Rape Accusations Against Men"

Crime & Federalism

April 17, 2010

     " Many people roll their eyes at the idea that feminism is waging a war against men.  Yet here is what one of the supporters of the Violence Against Women Act said about false rape accusations: 

Catherine Comins, assistant dean of student life at Vassar, also sees some value in this loose use of "rape."...Comins argues that men who are unjustly accused can sometimes gain from the experience. "They have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I didn't violate her, could I have?' 'Do I have the potential to do to her what they say I did?' Those are good questions."

Isn't that great?  If a man said that a woman can learn from being raped, he'd be irrelevant.  Who here would dare say - in public, anyway - that a woman who gets raped after taking Jell-O shots at a frat house should seriously reconsider her life choices?   

Catherine Comins, however, did not lose her job.  Her close ties with with many Democrat politicians were not undone.  She also helped draft the Violence Against Women Act."

Catherine Comins, assistant dean of student life at Vassar, also sees some value in this loose use of "rape."...Comins argues that men who are unjustly accused can sometimes gain from the experience. "They have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I didn't violate her, could I have?' 'Do I have the potential to do to her what they say I did?' Those are good questions."

Isn't that great?  If a man said that a woman can learn from being raped, he'd be irrelevant.  Who here would dare say - in public, anyway - that a woman who gets raped after taking Jell-O shots at a frat house should seriously reconsider her life choices?   

Catherine Comins, however, did not lose her job.  Her close ties with with many Democrat politicians were not undone.  She also helped draft the Violence Against Women Act."

Internet Rape Case Jolts Wyoming City

MSNBC

  Victim's ex-boyfriend allegedly posted online that she had a rape fantasy

 

updated 3:16 p.m. ET, Sat., Feb. 6, 2010

CASPER, Wyo. - "Authorities say a Casper woman was assaulted at her front door, raped at knifepoint in her living room and left bound on the floor, and they say one of the men charged in the brutal attack claimed that he thought it was invited.

Two men are accused in the crime. One is charged with carrying out the rape. The other, the woman's ex-boyfriend, stands accused of posing as the victim online and claiming she harbored a rape fantasy and wanted to be assaulted.

The case in the central Wyoming city of Casper, population 54,000, illustrates that middle America isn't immune to the dangers of Internet anonymity and predators who target victims through online ads that hint at sex and prostitution.

" . . . In the Casper case, Blonigen's office has charged Ty Oliver McDowell, 26, of Bar Nunn, a Casper suburb, with three counts of first-degree sexual assault, one count of kidnapping and one count of aggravated burglary. Jebidiah James Stipe, 27, a Marine based in Twentynine Palms, Calif., is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree sexual assault." Read More

Elderly Women Fear Texas "Twilight" Rapist

MSNBC

Sexual predator cuts phone lines, robs victims in ‘sick’ premeditated attacks

	Jennings Retirement Village where an elderly woman was attacked in an attempted rape is seen in Luling, Texas, on Thursday.  View related photos
Eric Gay / AP

updated 29 minutes ago

YOAKUM, Texas - "Cassandra McGinty has had the same routine upon arriving home for the past four months, doing a room-to-room search with her handgun or stun gun drawn.

A sexual predator has been assaulting elderly women in central Texas over the past year, terrifying residents and frustrating investigators who have only a vague description of the suspect.

Pepper spray has been flying off the shelves in the towns where the attacks have occurred, and McGinty, of Marquez, said her landlord handed out stun guns as Christmas gifts. Nearly 200 miles away in Yoakum, elderly volunteers at the local museum have been locking its doors during business hours.

   'I used to think I was too old for anybody to mess with,' said McGinty, 55. 'I can't say that anymore.'

Beginning with the rape of a 65-year-old woman in Yoakum last January, authorities have linked eight sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults to the suspect, who has been dubbed the "Twilight Rapist" because most of the attacks occurred around dawn. They also believe he robbed or attempted to rob four other women" ... Read More