Teenager accused in Maryville, Mo., rape case will not be charged with sexual assault
Source: KSHB news Kansas City, MO
MARYVILLE, Mo. - A northwest Missouri college student embroiled in a rape case that made national headlines will not be charged for sexual assault, 41 Action News has learned.
Instead, 19-year-old Matthew Barnett faces a criminal conviction for the misdemeanor offense of endangering the welfare of a child, one of the charges he initially faced two years ago.
Read a timeline of the case .
On Thursday, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker filed the charge at the Nodaway County Courthouse. Baker, asked to re-examine the case amid international furor, was appointed special prosecutor in October by Associate Circuit Judge Glen Dietrich.
Baker will appear before Judge Dietrich at 1:30 p.m. and a press conference is expected shortly after the court proceedings.
Read more: http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/teenager-accused-in-maryville-mo-rape-case-will-not-be-charged-with-sexual-assault
Hmmm, will be interesting to hear what they say in the news conference at 1:30.
lark
(23,155 posts)There's too much political pressure for any in-state politician. I am so fucking sick of this tolerance of rape, how in the hell could she consent when she was so passed out - it's freaking ridiculous, disgusting, disturbing and just downright sick.
alp227
(32,052 posts)Easy to say this in theory but what about practice?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)That's the only state law I need to know, to say this was rape.
lark
(23,155 posts)I'd think they could bring in someone from out of state, but really don't know. I was coming from a common sense perspective, but the law is not always sensible.
Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)alp227
(32,052 posts)Matthew for emotional distress and Matthew's parents for...I think negligence.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)This is not a he said/she said thing...I was under the impression that there was video and physcial evidence. How is having relations with a drunk child anything less than what it is, rape? What the hell is going on in that state? What is wrong with our society that people see this any different?
sybylla
(8,526 posts)How fucked up are Missouri laws that 13 & 14yo children are judged capable of consent?
eomer
(3,845 posts)Response to cbdo2007 (Original post)
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alp227
(32,052 posts)It seems that teacher-on-student rape and stranger rape are far more likely to be prosecuted severely, than acquaintance rape.
radicalliberal
(907 posts). . . (hypothetically speaking) instead of a member of the football team.
Well, actually, I don't. It's no surprise to me. Just look at the record.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)His family is wealth and politically-influential. I think that played a bigger role than football. He was a senior and the football season was over.
radicalliberal
(907 posts)Was it true in Steubenville, Glen Ridge, etc.?
One of the worst scandals of Notre Dame's football program (in 1974) took place during the summer of that year before the football season started.
I think my Chess Club analogy still holds. At least to a degree. I don't think there would be quite as many people rushing to defend the rapist in that hypothetical situation.
Gotta go. . . .
Igel
(35,356 posts)1) Older. So it would have been statutory.
2) Power relationship. A lot of states have special laws stipulating how teacher-student relationships are restricted. Romantic involvement with a student at the same school is banned--even if it's not sexual. I've heard of teachers roasted gently over an open fire because they started a relationship soon after the student graduated; it was hard to duck the assumption that the relationship began earlier, or to get around possible conflict of interests because the student's friends were still enrolled.
We'd have probably not heard about it. Such things are sometimes dealt with publicly, but that usually involves the kid or the kid's parents going public. Or indiscrete rumors that both sides can't tamp down. Otherwise the teacher's lawyers, the school's lawyers, and the parent's lawyers interact in interesting ways.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)I thought rapes only occurred in India.
historylovr
(1,557 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)Rapist gets slap on the wrist, victim gets harassed, threatened, and bullied. The victim is the one ostracized by the community, as if she's the one that did something wrong. Is this clear enough? -__-
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Though I tend to agree that Mrs. Coleman might have been more attentive before this happened.
lark
(23,155 posts)Did you see the in my sig line and misinterpret it?
lark
(23,155 posts)Sorry about that.