"As tensions grow in America, as divisions flourish, and the nation leads up to something unseen but ugly, prissy vindictiveness and moral sadism become normal. We have become a gotcha culture, watchful for transgressions meaningless but forbidden, so that we can make the malfeasor squirm. How we enjoy the squirming, the writhing on camera, the heavy punishments inflected for nothing." - Fred Reed
What is it with America when it comes to sexual matters? There is a bunch of stuff under the ''Sex Prudery'' tag in the side bar, but I think this one just about takes the biscuit.
File under, shit you couldn't make up.
Parents Sue D.A. for Charging Their 6-Year-Old Son With a Felony After He Played Doctor With a 5-Year-Old Girl
Jacob Sullum
November 23, 2011Last week the parents of a Wisconsin boy sued Grant County District Attorney Lisa Riniker for charging their son with first-degree sexual assault, a Class B felony, after he played "butt doctor" with a 5-year-old girl. He was 6 at the time. When the boy's lawyer tried to have the charge dismissed, Riniker replied: "The legislature could have put an age restriction in the statute if it wanted to. The legislature did no such thing."
According to the complaint (PDF), the girl is "the daughter of a well-known political figure in Grant County," and her brother, who is the same age, also was involved in playing doctor but was not charged. In addition to Riniker, the lawsuit names as defendants retired Grant County Sheriff's Sgt. James Kopp and Jan Moravits, an investigator with Grant County Social Services "whose regional supervisor...is the political figure's wife's sister-in-law"—i.e., the aunt of the alleged victim.
Although the boy, now 7, is too young to be prosecuted or named in a juvenile delinquency petitition, Madison.com reports, county officials are using the felony charge to force his parents into accepting "protection or services" for him. The lawsuit says that once he turns 18, he will be listed as a sex offender.
I noted a similar case in my July Reason story on sex offender laws. Reason.com
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3 comments:
"This is totally insane. Only in America brother!!! The US is indeed more repressive than the former USSR or Nazi Germany combined. It would be laughable if it wasn´t so tragic. We have a national situation where the TV programming and Hollywood productions reached epidemic proportions in the production of soft pornography and equally disgusting violent shows and homosexual plots, these buffoons are prosecuting a little boy for having played doctor with a girl? Had this little boy grabbed a gun and played "American warrior" I´m sure it would have been just fine with this idiot in the DA´s office." - Silvester
http://www.themysteryworld.
com/2011/11/parents-sue-da-
for-charging-their-6.html
As you note, violence, the supreme pornography, is culturally expectable in the US.
Had this little boy grabbed a gun and played "American warrior" I´m sure it would have been just fine
You might think that, unless of course there was chance to ruin another child's life, although I see from the report, in this case, the establishment want to wait until the boy is eighteen to exact its vengeance and ruin his life. And how obscene is that?
http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2011/06/fred-reed-smiting-in-fiddle.html
Second story down, Extremely Dangerous Boy Kid.
There is something perverse, something terribly twisted about the American psyche.
Why that should be I don't know. Insecurity perhaps, or just directly proportional to the amount of God that they (profess) to have in them.
America, one nation under God! it's as far from godly as any place could be.
Jeebus! I've just scrolled through all that paperwork.
These people are insane.
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