Vortex, what about molested, because damn.
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Topic!Cindy - Aug 17, 2006 9:54:26 am PDT #3206 of 10001
What is even happening?
tommyrot - Aug 17, 2006 9:56:50 am PDT #3207 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Vortex, what about molested, because damn.
Yeah, I'm curious about how much a newspaper can infer from his statement... can they say his confession is, say, "tantamount to a confession of rape" or something?
Jessica - Aug 17, 2006 9:57:12 am PDT #3208 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
They could say that he "statutorily raped" her, I suppose.
That was going to be my next question -- when it's a clear-cut case of statutory rape (at minimum), is it still libel to say so? (Since saying "statutory rape" doesn't define anything legally except for their respective ages.)
Kathy A - Aug 17, 2006 9:57:46 am PDT #3209 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
These wackjobs hating "heliocentrism" (gee, everything is relative, isn't it?) just make me want to call for Buzz Aldrin to deck the guy, just like he did the Flat Earther a few years back.
Fred Pete - Aug 17, 2006 9:58:22 am PDT #3210 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
He can say he had sex with a six-year-old and and we can't call it rape?
As I understand it, the media have to be more careful at this point. Which is why the word "alleged" appears so often in stories of this kind.
But I pegged this guy as hopelessly creepy when the media said that he said he loved her.
amych - Aug 17, 2006 9:59:10 am PDT #3211 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think the heliocentrism thing was meant as snark.
tommyrot - Aug 17, 2006 9:59:46 am PDT #3212 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
These wackjobs hating "heliocentrism" (gee, everything is relative, isn't it?) just make me want to call for Buzz Aldrin to deck the guy, just like he did the Flat Earther a few years back.
They could be superheros! The "Ex-Astronaut Truth Team" or somesuch. (Astronauts all have superpowers as a result to exposure to cosmic rays, right?)
Vortex - Aug 17, 2006 10:01:40 am PDT #3213 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
That was going to be my next question -- when it's a clear-cut case of statutory rape (at minimum), is it still libel to say so? (Since saying "statutory rape" doesn't define anything legally except for their respective ages.)
Well, theoretically he could be found not guilty (how, I don't know, but stranger things have happened), and there would not be a conviction, which would mean legally he 's not guilty of statutory rape.
I think that the papers would stay away from it.
tommyrot - Aug 17, 2006 10:02:38 am PDT #3214 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think the heliocentrism thing was meant as snark.
Yeah, now that I've read the rest of the site - you're right.
Bah.
bon bon - Aug 17, 2006 10:05:31 am PDT #3215 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Things that do not bother me:
- There are people who do not believe the earth revolves around the sun.
- Newspapers that avoid inferring or implying crimes. Especially if I know all I need to know from the neutral language they do employ.
Incidentally this guy's confession still seems sketchy to me. He might just be a wackjob obsessed with the case. He has kids-- they don't notice he went to Colorado on Christmas?