JD’s link, which I quoted above, seems to be a free version of the Daily Wire story. If half of what is in there is true, it’s much worse than I thought.
I’m all for waiting for the facts, but there’s enough here for me to presume the truth.
“Thank God that I drew enough attention to it, without getting arrested, that we got an escort to the hospital and they administered a rape kit that night,” Smith said. A SANE exam and buccal swab, his lawyer said, later came back favorable to the prosecution’s case.”
This, the court dates, the alleged date of the plea deal…it’s a lot of evidence unless deliberately fabricated.
But the same people made both reports. If we give credence to the very serious allegation, why would we doubt details? Or excessively doubt them anyway.
Yep. It all remains to be seen. I tried to see the Daily Wire report as well, maybe it will be possible eventually. The whole thing sounded very serious from the Fox description unfortunately.
Then they’d have to have fabricated the nature of the court dates, whether there was incriminating statements by the boy, her testimony (of course), and perhaps even the nature of the rape kit results.
Well, not exactly. The daughter made the rape allegation, but the father made the rest. And some of what the father says doesn’t quite make sense to me – how on earth does he know that the assault at the other school was by the same kid, for instance?
Still, this isn’t really the hill I want to die on. In my original post I just wanted to make clear that I’m not doubting the girl was raped.
To the gender fluid thing, form the article I posted:
Lancaster, the Smith family’s attorney, was sure the charges would be dropped. Instead, Biberaj – the top law enforcement officer in a county of 400,000 residents – showed up to personally try the misdemeanor case.
Lancaster explained in court that her client was angry after his daughter was sexually assaulted in a bathroom by a person identifying as “gender fluid,” and reminded her that prosecutors had substantiated the assault and chosen to bring charges.
In the bathroom, so far as I know. But unless American schools work much differently than I think, the phrase “given access” doesn’t really mean anything relevant. People can go through doors.
Yes, the article I posted. WHy not take a moment and catch up?
“A teenager from Ashburn has been charged with sexual battery and abduction of a fellow student at Broad Run High School. The investigation determined on the afternoon of October 6, the 15-year-old suspect forced the victim into an empty classroom where he held her against her will and inappropriately touched her,” it said.
A government official told The Daily Wire the name of the student. It was the same name as the boy who allegedly assaulted Smith’s daughter.
The Daily Wire is withholding the name of the suspect because of his age. Reached at home, his mother declined to comment on the allegations.
The prosecutors with whom Smith and his wife had been communicating about the rape case “never alerted us” about the alleged repeat offense, Smith said. He did not believe it could actually be the same person.
But “we called his probation officer and he told me ‘yep, I put him in juvy yesterday.’” They contacted the Special Victims Unit detective, “and she said ‘I can’t tell you what happened, but it happened and it’s bad.’”
If someone has committed a violent crime against you, and that same person commits the crime again, it is not unusual to warn you about it. Also, it would obviously become a part of any trial involving your crime, so the lawyers would know.
I’m not doubting the (alleged) rape, which you have called me out on for not labelling as merely alleged. I’m not even particularly doubting the “gender-fluid” part now that I’ve seen JD’s link which references it (although still only as something the father says). Like I said in my original post, the other reporting is unclear, and that’s the information I had at the time.