[quote]The siding and gutters had melted. The roof was gone. Inside, piles of ash filled the rooms that had once bustled with the pleasant sounds of a family.
That morning last April when Melinda Coleman received word that emergency vehicles were gathering around her Maryville house, she had hoped for the best.
But if the events of the past year and a half had taught her anything, it was that when the town of Maryville was involved, that seemed unlikely.
Since the morning her daughter had been left nearly unconscious in the frost of the home’s front lawn, this northwest Missouri community had come to mean little besides heartache.
Few dispute the basic facts of what happened in the early morning hours of Jan. 8, 2012: A high school senior had sex with Coleman’s 14-year-old daughter, another boy did the same with her daughter’s 13-year-old friend, and a third student video-recorded one of the bedding scenes. Interviews and evidence initially supported the felony and misdemeanor charges that followed.
Yet, two months later, the Nodaway County prosecutor dropped the felony cases against the youths, one the grandson of a longtime area political figure.
The incident sparked outrage in the community, though the worst of it was directed not at the accused perpetrators but at a victim and her family. In the months that followed, Coleman lost her job, and her children were routinely harassed. When it became too much, they left, retreating east to Albany.[/quote]
[url]http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/12/4549775/nightmare-in-maryville-teens-sexual.html[/url]
holy shit missouri I know you're the butt of all the cultural jokes in america but come now, this is some real backwards-ass dictator third world country shit
worse
it's straight out of the middle ages
That's messed up.
Sounds like any other state south of the Mason-Dixon line. I'd honestly not care if we just told those states to fuck off and sold them to Mexico.
I thought this would be in somewhere like India or an arabic state where this happens often, but not in america, I thought people knew better.
I thought this would take place in like Saudia Arabia,not Missouri.Holy fuck.
Annnd yup
the rapists were local high school football celebrities
[QUOTE=draugur;42514177]Sounds like any other state south of the Mason-Dixon line. I'd honestly not care if we just told those states to fuck off and sold them to Mexico.[/QUOTE]
damn, generalize much?
Well I mean what did they expect, this is the kind of thing you should expect to see happen in a country like Ira-
[quote]Missouri[/quote]
oh wait
[QUOTE=draugur;42514177]Sounds like any other state south of the Mason-Dixon line. I'd honestly not care if we just told those states to fuck off and sold them to Mexico.[/QUOTE]
Yeah let's give Mexico most of our economy!
Southern white people smh
[editline]13th October 2013[/editline]
i'm white this isn't racist
[QUOTE=Redswandir;42514156]holy shit missouri I know you're the butt of all the cultural jokes in america but come now, this is some real backwards-ass dictator third world country shit[/QUOTE]
Really? That's funny, because I've lived in Missouri all my life, and I've never noticed that. Huh.
Anyone who says that Missouri is some hellhole is extremely ignorant. We have our weirdos, yes, but not more than any other state. Also, Missouri is not a Southern state; we consider ourselves Midwestern.
[QUOTE=Kommodore;42514163]worse
it's straight out of the middle ages[/QUOTE]
That's a wonky comparison, in the middle ages a rape offense against a middle class family probably would have resulted in an agonizing death for the offender
Yes, the people of the middle ages probably would have delivered a *slightly* more proportionate form of justice compared to this
If you go farther south, then things do gradually get worse, but Missouri as a whole is a nice place to be. Stop generalizing and comparing the entire state to a third-world slum because of one tragedy that a lot of Missourians haven't even heard about. I definitely haven't.
[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;42514272][B]If you go farther south, then things do gradually get worse[/B], but Missouri as a whole is a nice place to be. [B]Stop generalizing[/B] and comparing[/QUOTE]
Uh
So corrupt
Expected India
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;42514262]That's a wonky comparison, in the middle ages a rape offense against a middle class family probably would have resulted in an agonizing death for the offender
Yes, the people of the middle ages probably would have delivered a *slightly* more proportionate form of justice compared to this[/QUOTE]
Not to derail, but I meant self-policing communities in which justice conforms to the local interests of those involved, not the crime committed.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;42514288]Uh[/QUOTE]
Whoops, my mistake. I presumed this was more down towards the south, as previous posters seemed to know everything about Missouri, but Maryville is actually at the northwest corner of the state. Still though, this doesn't make Missouri a shitty place to be.
[QUOTE=draugur;42514177]Sounds like any other state south of the Mason-Dixon line. I'd honestly not care if we just told those states to fuck off and sold them to Mexico.[/QUOTE]
It isn't the states. It's a rural problem, primarily.
Not to say that anyone from a rural town is some backwards hick, mind you. It all depends on the culture, the history, and the prevailing views.
This is absolutely disgusting. I hope Anonymous hears about this.
[editline]13th October 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=anal sex;42514313]Expected India[/QUOTE]
Or one of those other backwards Middle Eastern countries.
[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;42514272]If you go farther south, then things do gradually get worse, but Missouri as a whole is a nice place to be. Stop generalizing and comparing the entire state to a third-world slum because of one tragedy that a lot of Missourians haven't even heard about. I definitely haven't.[/QUOTE]
Texas is also fine tbh
[QUOTE=teh pirate;42514467]Texas is also fine tbh[/QUOTE]
Never said it wasn't, though. Drought must be bad, though - I know how terrible they are.
sickening.
its funny because in that thunderfoot "teach people not to rape" thread everyone was going "OH BUT WE DO TEACH PEOPLE RAPE IS BAD WHAT MORE CAN WE DO?"
obviously we fucking don't because an entire high school basically said a drugged 14 year old was a skank who was asking for it.
[quote]In a later interview, Rice called it a case of “incorrigible teenagers” drinking alcohol and having sex. “They were doing what they wanted to do, and there weren’t any consequences. And it’s reprehensible. But is it criminal? No.”
Robert Sundell, who represented Barnett, echoed that sentiment: “Just because we don’t like the way teenagers act doesn’t necessarily make it a crime."[/quote]
even the adults are saying "oh they were all drinking so it was obviously consensual." it's undeniable that there is a massive problem with how society looks at rape and we should be focusing on that instead of that "but women should be taking precautions!!" shit that was being flung around in the other thread. fuck this gay earth.
[QUOTE=OvB;42514217]Yeah let's give Mexico most of our economy![/QUOTE]
because your economy is such a fucking prize. mexico would probably turn you down.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;42514423]
Or one of those other backwards Middle Eastern countries.[/QUOTE]
Nah, it was just one of your backwards american states.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;42514423]This is absolutely disgusting. I hope Anonymous hears about this.
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Come on this is something i'd expect from the mainstream media, not someone on facepunch
[QUOTE=Bazsil;42514633]Come on this is something i'd expect from the mainstream media, not someone on facepunch[/QUOTE]
They unfucked the Steubenville rape case.
I'm just saying it'd be nice if they unfucked this one too, since this is just about a repeat of it, except I don't think the victim's house got burned down in Steubenville.
[quote] one the grandson of a longtime area political figure.[/quote]
HUH
i wonder why it was dropped. i wonder. how fucking backwards is that
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