Sex and drugs and the Court of Appeals
I'm going to let Sean Adrussier of North Carolina Appellate Blog take the lead on this one:
"Today's prize for the most bizarre case: a statutory rape case where the defendant won a new trial.
"Defendant lived with his wife and their kids, and with his girlfriend and her kids. That's where the trouble began: one of the girlfriend's daughters gave birth at 15, and again at 16, and DNA testing showed that defendant was the father of both.
"His defense: the girl drugged him with a pill that rendered him unconscious, and then she forced him into unconscious relations.
"His key witness: the girl. She told a detective that on two occasions she got pills that could 'lay a person out' and she put them in defendant's drink after he had 'come home tired from drinking and smoking drugs,' with the consequence that 'he couldn't move or anything,' making him 'dead-weight' before she had relations, resulting in the two pregnancies."
OK, I have to add this from the decision written by Judge Linda Stephens about the teenager in question, who's identified as N.B.:
N.B. said that she thought Defendant's son ... could have fathered one of her children and that one of several boys in Ayden might have fathered the other."
The girl's mother "said that N.B. had always been a problem child, had trouble in school, and that she and her friends gave pills to boys and had sex with them."
Did somebody miss the abstinence-only class at school?
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Right out of the Old Testament.
Posted on February 17, 2009 7:56 PM
You just said a Lot.
Posted on February 17, 2009 8:31 PM
Oh, Doug, that was bad.
Uh, nobody believes this crazy story, right? Too bad there isn't a word stronger than dysfunctional for this family.
Posted on February 17, 2009 10:34 PM
Really, isn't it pointless to hold people like this subject to human law? As long as they keep their degeneracy moderately contained within the family, I say leave them alone and make a reality TV show out of it.
Posted on February 17, 2009 10:58 PM
"Did somebody miss the abstinence-only class at school?" or does this reflect on the effectiveness of the abstinence-only class?
Posted on February 18, 2009 9:02 AM
" 'he couldn't move or anything,' making him 'dead-weight' before she had relations, resulting in the two pregnancies." "
Ummm...this teen girl must have powers to raise the dead if she was able to elicit the physical response necessary for "relations" from a guy who was dead to the world.
The phrase "trying to shoot pool with a rope" comes to mind....:)
Posted on February 18, 2009 9:22 AM
Either way.
Notice the mother of this girl said she had trouble at school. If that means she wasn't keeping up in academic subjects, why would anyone expect her to learn more in sex-ed class?
It's certainly worth looking at what approach works best in general for educating kids about sexual issues, but the problem in many cases is what kids learn at home from the example of their parents or other adults.
What lessons does a teenager draw if her mother is sharing a man with his wife in a single all-in-the-family household?
Is it the school's responsibility to teach her better behavior if her own mother is aware that she's giving pills to boys and having sex with them, yet apparently doing nothing to stop her?
You can count this girl as a failure of the schools, but I'd say the blame belongs at home.
Posted on February 18, 2009 9:23 AM
Right out of the Old Testament? More like out of "The World According to Garp" but Garp was brain-spinal cord-damaged which does have reported spontaneous arousals associated with it. The scenario reported here is impossible, although it's a good bet that the guy is brain damaged.
Posted on February 18, 2009 10:20 AM
We don't know what kind of pill the girl put in his drink. What are the possibilities? Is there a Mickey Finn/Viagra pill?
Posted on February 18, 2009 10:41 AM
Interesting idea Dr. Clark, but wouldn't it be easier to just to head down to the corner sex shop for some Steely Dan.
This case will be studied in law schools for the next generation at least and will be known as the Human Dildo Defense.
Posted on February 18, 2009 11:50 AM