Family Gets Driven Out of Missouri Town After Daughter Gets Raped

[LiquidSky]

Originally Posted by ices

Why are people so surprised?

Do you even understand the mentality of athletes in these situations? A lot of them do fucked up shit and this is one of those things.

Yes the girls dont deserve it but it is no environment for underage girls to be in. Women older than them get hooked, lined and dumped in these places and you expect a 14 year old girl to cope?

The parents should have known better, a child is their responsibility.

Underage girls are notorious for making dumb decisions. I was one, so I know firsthand. Besides, how many times did you do something your parents wouldn't approve of, or break the law, or put yourself in a bad situation when you were a teenager? Probably more time than you can count.

Thankfully, the older boys I chose to get fucked up with did not take advantage of me. But some boys aren't as respectful.

[OhJstFkOffAlrdy]

"Alleged"? LOL, yeah right. That dude has chronic date-rape face, and his tweet only further implicates him.

This is why I'm kind of glad that I don't have kids. If this had been my daughter, I would have burned the whole town to the ground, no survivors.

[Megamel29]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1568435

Missouri teen at center of explosive rape case attempts suicide: report

A Missouri teen at the center of a controversial rape investigation was rushed to a hospital after trying to kill herself on Sunday, according to her mother and a local report.

Daisy Coleman, who accused an older boy in Maryville of raping her when she was 14, was at a Kansas City psychiatric hospital on Monday after the suicide attempt, local FOX 4 News reported.

Her mother, Melinda Coleman, told the station Daisy was distraught after being bullied by teens on social media following a party she attended Saturday night.

Her condition wasn't available Tuesday.

Writing on Facebook on Monday, Melinda Coleman said her daughter "had been terrorized to the point she tried to kill herself last night."

"She may never be ok," the heartbroken mom wrote.

A few hours later, another commenter who claimed to have seen the popular young cheerleader said she was "alive" and "out of physical danger."

News of the alleged suicide was another grim turn in a case that has cast a long shadow over Maryville, a quiet, tightknit town in rural northwest Missouri about 100 miles from Kansas City.

In January 2012, Daisy accused a 17-year-old senior from a prominent local family of raping her while she was drunk and then leaving her on her family’s doorstep in the freezing cold.
Her hair was frozen by the time she was discovered.

The story became national news in October after the Kansas City Star published a bombshell report about the alleged rape and a prosecutor's subsequent decision to drop the charges, citing a lack of evidence.

Muddying the waters was the fact that the accused teen, Matthew Barnett, was the grandson of a former Missouri state representative.
A special prosecutor was appointed in October to investigate allegations.

Amid a series of nasty exchanges on Facebook on Monday, Melinda Coleman fumed about her daughter's bullying and struck out at her alleged tormenters.

She also made a plea to the "hacktavist" organization Anonymous, whose members pledged support for Daisy after the case began making headlines.

"Where are you and your super hacking skills and internet help now.......we really need them," she wrote.

In October, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker, who has been appointed to look into the case, promised to review the allegations "without fear and without favor."

"Politics, connections, or any other reason you can think of, will not play a role in our review of this case. It will be the evidence," Baker said.

[Megamel29]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-charges.html

Daisy Coleman's alleged rapist apologizes to the teen 'he assaulted at a party' after it emerges he will NOT face sex assault charges

The 19-year-old man accused of raping 14-year-old Daisy Coleman has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor child endangerment charge.

Matt Barnett apologized to the teen, who has tried to commit suicide three times since the alleged attack, after prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence to support sex assault charges.

'Today I am grateful… I am ready to move forward,' Barnett said in a statement. 'To all of those who supported me, I promise what happened on January 8 of 2012 will not define me forever.'

The case received national attention after fellow students relentlessly bullied the alleged victim for reporting the attack - eventually forcing her family to flee the small town of Maryville, Missouri. Their family home then mysteriously burned down.

Coleman had claimed that Barnett raped her at a January 2012 house party, when he was a Maryville High School senior and she was a freshman. Barnett says the sex was consensual.

The announcement of the lesser charge of endangerment comes only days after Ms Coleman made a third attempt on her life - this one resulting in possible brain damage.

She is currently being held in the psych ward of a Kansas City Hospital.

Hours before she attempted to take her life, she wrote a tweet on Sunday hinting at the emotional toll the ordeal has taken on her.

'Don’t give up they say,' she wrote. 'You’re so strong they say. But none of you even know me.'

And, in yet another bizarre twist, mutilated rabbits were stuffed inside a car belonging to another girl who was sexually assaulted that night. The sick act came just hours after Coleman attempted suicide.


Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney Jean Peters Baker stepped in after the local prosecutor, Nodaway County prosecutor Robert Rice, was criticized for dropping the case. Rice had alleged that Daisy's family had stopped cooperating - a claim Daisy and her mother, Melinda Coleman, deny.

Before dropping the case, Rice had been pursuing a misdemeanor child endangerment. An initial felony sexual assault charge was dropped two month after first being brought against Mr Barnett.

Melinda Coleman says authorities didn't do enough to push the investigation forward, and she has alleged that Mr Rice's decision to drop the case was politically motivated; Barnett's grandfather was a four-term Missouri state representative who was a state trooper for 32 years.

Mr Rice has repeatedly denied that claim.

The charges stemmed from an incident on January 8, 2012 when Barnett and some other boys picked up Daisy and Paige Parkhurst, then-13-years-old, from Daisy's house and took them to the home of one of the boys. The two girls sneaked out of Ms Coleman's home to attend the party.

Daisy claimed that when she got to the party she was given a clear liquid that she drank before being taken into a bedroom and raped while a second boy recorded the act on his cellphone.

Daisy said she blacked out and doesn't remember much after arriving at the boy's home. Melinda Coleman has said she believes her daughter was given a date-rape drug.

Mr Barnett admitted the two had sex and that he was aware Ms Coleman had been drinking, but has steadfastly insisted the sex was consensual.

Jordan Zech, 17, was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor for filming the encounter.

Ms Parkhurst was taken into a different room by a 15-year-old boy who forced her to have sex, which he has admitted to doing. His case was handled in the juvenile system and is not public record.

Melinda Coleman said she awoke around 5 a.m. to a clawing sound at her front door and found her daughter shivering in sub-freezing temperatures. She said she was giving Daisy a bath to warm her up when she noticed signs that she had been assaulted.

Daisy was then subjected to relentless bullying online and in school. It became so bad she has tried committing suicide multiple times.

The family then fled Maryville for their hometown of New Albany. Their Maryville house soon mysteriously burned to the ground. Investigators have yet to determine a cause for the fire.

The case shook the small college town of Maryville, which was deluged with negative reactions after The Kansas City Star published a seven-month investigation into claims made by the Colemans.

Many people condemned the town on social media - and continue to do so - for seemingly abandoning sexual assault victims.

The outcry led to a protest on Maryville's courthouse square in which a few hundred people showed up to show their support for Daisy and lambaste what they labeled as a 'rape culture' that allowed the girl's assailant to go unpunished.

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Photo 1 Daisy Coleman
Photo 2 Rex Barnett (grandfather of accused, former state politician)

Photo 3 Matt Barnett (accused)

Photo 4 Daisy Coleman
Photo 5 Dead Bunnies
Photo 6 Paige Parkhurst
Photo 7 Burned house

[BBKF]

Originally Posted by LiquidSky

Underage girls are notorious for making dumb decisions. I was one, so I know firsthand. Besides, how many times did you do something your parents wouldn't approve of, or break the law, or put yourself in a bad situation when you were a teenager? Probably more time than you can count.

Thankfully, the older boys I chose to get fucked up with did not take advantage of me. But some boys aren't as respectful.

When I was at a junior class party in the 70's, I left with an older, popular guy. I believe he was in his late twenties.(I was 15 yrs old) I had the choice of going with him or another "friend" also in his late twenties. My girlfriend rode with him and we should have stuck together. My bad. We were supposed to be going to another party. The guy drove me into the sticks, tried to have sex, I said "NO!". He shoved two red capsules down my throat with his fingers. (still don't know what they were and they had no effect) He told me if I did not have sex with him, I would have to walk home. We are talking about 30 miles of dark country roads with no houses. I chose to walk. After I got a few yards, he pulled up beside me and stopped. I thought he had changed his mind and was going to drive me home or to the party. He threw a beer out the passenger window and told me it was so I could have a drink while I walked. After about 5 miles a farmer in a pick up truck stopped and gave me a ride most of the way. A week later the same guy called me up and wanted me to go out with him again. He apologized and blamed it on being wasted. He actually had the fucking balls to ask me out again. Should I have got in the car with him? No. Did I deserve to be raped because I made a bad decision. No. I was at least fortunate that he did not rape me. I just had a long walk to think about it. I had no moral reason for not having sex, I just thought it should be my decision, as well. My first time was NOT going to be in a car with a first date who tried to drug me and force me. Teenagers make bad decisions. Rape is not a punishment for it. In a million years I would not have thought this guy would hurt me. He was a NICE guy whenever I was around him before. Young girls making bad decisions do not a defense for rape make.

[Shadedwill]

Dead rabbits? What the hell..

[uj2000]

I think I saw a documentary about this on youtube, the guys who raped her also posted on facebook comments like "nobody can take a dong that big up the ass without waking up" and also that Anonymous helped the police find some evidence. but i'm not 100% sure

[Simone]

[Krusen72]

“Our boys deserve an apology, and they haven’t gotten it yet.”

wow...

[Berserk]

Originally Posted by Blewvane

I'll break down my first post into point form to make it easier to understand.
* Rape is rape, the rapists should be punished to the full extent of the law.
* The girls shouldn't have been there unsupervised, let alone drinking.
* Small hick towns in the US place young aspiring atheletes on a pedestal. Any event that disrupts this will piss off the locals.

Now as for being sick of victim blaming, once again in point form.
* If the girls didn't go to the party they couldn't have been raped.
* If the girls had refused to drink the alcohol then maybe they wouldn't have been raped.
* If the girls felt uncomfortable they should have left straight away.

If the girls were home in bed and the rapist came through the window and raped them, that would be different but it's not what happened. In this case the girls are victims of rape but not blameless. They put themselves in a bad position and have to live with the decisions they made.

You forgot one...

*if the fathers of those boys had used a condom, or shot it int the mouth, those rapist never had been born


Also, a guy of almost 18yo versus a 14yo girl... When he pushed for her to drink the shots, how could she cope with the overweight of his Age difference?!

Its a freakng kid versus a young adult, dont forget this when you are stating she 'simply had to refused the drinks' .. If there was even One person around that would had the guts to say No when everyone was pushing them to drink Alcohol this would not have happened.

But instead the entire society is too fck'd up with people who dont respect other peoples boundaries, or to affraid to speak up in defending a weaker person in situations like this

The system is rotten at its Core, so you have to root in out completely to prevent this kind of bullshit in the future