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Girl Seeks Help On Facebook During Assault
A 12-year-old girl who was being assaulted by her mother's ex-boyfriend used some quick thinking by sending a message on her iPod to a friend's Facebook account for help. The friend was able to contact the girl's mother who then contacted the police. 42-year-old Raymond Ernest Cesmat was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. He is being held at the Dakota County Jail on $175,000 bail.
Slashdot is just taking from the standard journalist's playbook: If you can tie a story to something that's currently very popular, especially Facebook or Twitter, you can get 10 times the page hits you would have normally gotten. If you can tie those things into a story that will generate lots of hits all on its own anyway, such as one dealing with sexual violence against children, your story might even go viral and you can just sit back and watch the ad revenue roll in.
While that's a great thing to teach and learn, in this case the girl had no cell phone, but was able to ask for help on an iPod Touch.
I know, I must be new here, but I read the article. He took away her cell phone before she went to bed (possibly making this a premeditated assualt), but she was able to use her iPod to post her plea for help on Facebook (presumably over a wifi connection).
It gets better:
"The mom was no longer dating Cesmat but he continued to live with them."
iPOD. Not a phone. NOT A PHONE. Pay attention.
I'm a psychologist (amongst other things).
While I agree, none of the criminal's prior offenses included either violent crimes or crimes of a sexual nature.
His priors were for fraud and such. I'm not saying the mother was not an idiot, but it's not like she left her with a known pedophile or rapist.
Ages where a person can possess firearms varies from state to state and can depend on the type of firearm. In Nevada, North Dakota, and South Carolina, there is no age restriction on the possession of long guns. Why, oh why, do people mod baseless assertions like this so high?
(I've also met twelve year olds who were more responsible than some people are at the age of majority.)
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
Spare me the talking points Mayor Bloomberg.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
No, not really.
The great bulk of underage gun deaths are either suicide or gangbangers. 12 year old girls are almost completely absent from that count, save as random victims. In addition, the number of accidental shootings (the stereotypical 'hey look, it's dad's gun' scenario) runs about 100/year. In the grand scheme of things, it's a nonfactor.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Please, please, please read TFA. Especially before you accuse a girl of being stupid because she was raped and had no way of calling for help. It really makes you look stupid when you make up facts to support a viewpoint that accuses the victim of stupidity.
First, she made the communication BEFORE being assaulted.
- Cesmat had confiscated her cell phone earlier in the evening. She had no telephone. Hence no ability to make calls.
- Cesmat had briefly left her room after attempting to remove her pants and her fighting him off. She had no way of knowing she was ABOUT to be raped (get the timeline right), so she used her only communications media to get a friend to have her mom come home and get her away from Cesmat ASAP. Little did she know he was about to re-enter the room and rape her.
- After the rape, Cesmat left. She then blocked the room off and escaped through the window, found a payphone, and called her mother (who was enroute already).
Could leaving the room immediately have prevented the rape? Maybe. Or maybe he was just outside the room at the time and her attempt at escape could have turned this deadly.
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
You don't suppose this could have something to do with the fact that "Children are not allowed to possess a firearm unless in the presence of an adult" as the GGP put it?
No, because the GGP is wrong. In my state (New York, hardly a bastion of gun rights) it's perfectly legal for 13+ year olds to plink in the backyard without adult supervision. It's perfectly legal for older kids (I want to say 15+ but I'd have to double check) to hunt without adult supervision.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
There are about 75,000 gun deaths a year
Your number is nearly three times higher than reality but then the gun-grabbers never have let the facts get in the way of a bad argument. If you are wondering, they show 12,632 firearm homicides in 2007 along with 17,352 suicides. I'll let you perform the addition operation -- you'll note it's substantially less than 75,000.
That outnumbers the cases of self-defense by about 10 to 1
Where you'd pull the 7,500 cases of self-defense from? The same void that you pulled the number of deaths from?
Notice the Supreme Court didn't give you a right to carry a gun in their courtroom.
Of course they didn't. All they said was that outright gun bans aren't compatible with the 2nd amendment. Sorry if that notion bothers you.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Read the story. The guy took the girl's phone beforehand. She used her iPod to send the message via Facebook becasue she had no other means of communication available.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Somehow, the whole rest of the western world manages to not only have less violent crime, but also less private gun ownership
Crime and gun ownership do not correlate. Finland has a lot of guns and a low crime rate. Russia has next to no guns (in civilian hands) and a high crime rate.
Perhaps the Open Carry folk could try and think a little bit harder and try to address the epidemic poverty, horrible education and nonsensical drug policy instead of pouring more gasoline on the fire?
That's funny, you tacitly admit that guns don't cause crime yet continue to condemn them. Interesting.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
It's called making the rent.
aka: i dont want to be homeless
WRONG. A significant percentage of medical bankruptcies in this country are people that *have* health insurance.
No, I'm not going to provide a citation or look it up for you. You should have been able to educate yourself about this by now, as it is *not* uncommon knowledge.
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita
see here ---> http://www.farmingtonindependent.com/event/article/id/14790/