SO ANGRY. SO ANGRY. SO ANGRY. SO ANGRY.
From CNN:
DARLINGTON, South Carolina (AP) -- A jury has acquitted a convicted sex offender of charges he raped two teen girls in an underground bunker.
The jury found Kenneth Glenn Hinson, 48, not guilty of kidnapping, sex crimes and assault with intent to kill.
Authorities had charged that Hinson snatched the 17-year-old girls from their bedroom last year and dragged them one at a time to the underground room hidden beneath a tool shed, where he raped and bound them with duct tape. Prosecutors said Hinson expected the girls to die because the room had no air supply. However, Hinson testified during the six-day trial that the girls had consensual sex with him...
The two young women were not in the courtroom when Hinson was acquitted. Their mothers and other relatives wept. They declined to comment after the verdict.
If convicted, Hinson had faced a mandatory life sentence without parole under the state's two-strikes law because he was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl in 1991.
The underground room was about the length and width of a mid-sized car with a ceiling about 41/2 feet high. Hinson testified Sunday that he had built the room behind his trailer where he lived.
Defense attorney Rick Hoefer spent much of his nearly two-hour closing argument Sunday picking apart what he called inconsistencies in the teens' testimony, including how long it took them to call 911 after their alleged escape and whether they saw Hinson with a gun.
Prosecutors said any discrepancies in their stories might have been a result of the trauma the teens went through.
"We are shocked and stunned. We believed Mr. Hinson was guilty as charged. We still believe he is guilty as charged,' said Attorney General Henry McMaster, who helped prosecute the case.
Hinson remained in custody on a federal firearms charge because he allegedly had a gun when he was arrested. Convicted felons are not permitted to carry weapons.
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Stories like the above give me no hope. And I wonder why sexual offenders do not see jail time? And I wonder why so many people do not report rape? It's because NO ONE in the justice system cares, RAPISTS ARE NOT SEEING TIME IN JAIL...AND THEY ARE GOING OUT AND RAPING MORE PEOPLE, WHO THEN DON'T REPORT IT BECAUSE THEY THINK "WHY SHOULD I REPORT IT? NO ONE BELIEVED THE FIRST VICTIM?" BLAH. BLAH. BLAH.
Oh. So now not only do these teenage girls who were tortured have to heal from the trauma they've experience but from the injustice as well. So when Sicko Hinson decides to go and hurt another kid, the members of the jury will be "shocked" and say "Whoops. We made a big mistake."
But it's no big deal right (Notice the extreme hint of sarcasm)? I mean after all we're just talking about raping children? I suppose the great citizens of Darlington, SC that sat on in a chair for six days and then decided he was innocent will sleep well tonight, not realizing that their daughters can be next.
I am a South Carolina citizen. I live here. I will not live here after I graduate. I will never live here again. I am leaving for good...Maybe I'll move to Maine where Judges let perverts who rape three-year-old-s off the hook. Or better yet- how about I move to Iowa where fathers can legally sleep with their daughters in certain parts of the state.
My stomach hurts. How sick does it have to get? How sick?
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angry, jessieh
PS: There was a gun threat at my high school today. Police arrested the suspect.
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