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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.

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  1. How? by RivenAleem · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How did she manage to pull this off while being assaulted at the same time? What did he think she was doing, updating her status?

  2. "911" it isn't that hard to do. by Spectre · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Teach your kids this. If there is an emergency, you can dial "911" on any phone.

    At least in the neighborhoods around where I am this will get police to your (approximate) location even if all you do is dial it and hang up.

    Works from nearly any phone, best from a landline, but any modern cel phone with location services EVEN one that does NOT have a current provider contract.

    Naturally, if you can give your address to the 911 operator it will speed things up if you are using a cel phone (no wait while police knock on doors in the neighborhood to find you).

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  3. Re:Why not just dial 911? by geekoid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A better question is: Why the fuck you din't read the article? Was it so hard to click on the link.

    Dumbass.

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  4. Re:wait, this is slashdot by thijsh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In my mind pedophiles deserve lifetime prison sentences with no possibility of a parole. This guy deserves a couple decades in jail for sure, but it's really not pedophilia. It's the rape of a minor.

    A pedophile deserves absolutely no jail time, who the fuck cares that you get turned on by men, women, horses, hentai, shoes or children. It's only the practicing pedophiles you need to worry about... But we already have laws against those sick fucks. Anyone who rapes a minor deserves lifetime in prison with no possibility of a parole, furthermore anyone who has sex with a minor under 16 can never claim this was consensual since someone twice the age can put an amount of pressure on a child that is not to be underestimated... If you ignore this last part all the pedophiles keep claiming the children want it too. They want the children to want it too, and pretend it works that way, but as long as we'll never let a piss-poor defense like that fly that too counts as rape (since the child did not consent legally).

    Rape is a terrible thing, when it's a minor it's far worse... But that does not mean we should fuel the whole witch-hunt for pedophiles... It will only lead to kids being charger for photographing themselves and crazy shit like that.