Maryland child rape case: Teacher raped students on school grounds.

[KarKar]

I think I'm going to be sick...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/13/maryland-music-teacher-charged-with-rape-molestation-of-15-girls/

Police in Montgomery County, MD arrested and charged 54-year-old elementary school music teacher Lawrence Wesley Joynes last week with multiple counts of sexual abuse, child abuse, rape and molestation after finding child pornography on the teacher’s computer. According to ABC Channel 7, some of the pornographic materials featured Joynes’ students and appeared to have been produced on school grounds.

Joynes has been teaching in the Montgomery County School System for 27 years. For the last 10, he has been at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, MD.

He was arrested Aug. 8 and is currently being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on 14 counts of sex abuse of a minor, one count of sex offense in the third degree and one count of second-degree rape. According to police, 14 of the 15 victims were between kindergarten and second grade in age at the time that the abuses occurred.

[Brickbat]

1. Did that article really need stock art? Jesus.

In any case, it sounds like there were lots of flags that no one investigated. Shameful.

[KarKar]

2. Found that odd myself

the stock photo

[Orrex]

3. +1

WTF? How does that girl feel about being featured above-the-fold in a child rape story?


Why not post a picture of the accused instead?

[Aerows]

5. I know!

[OneGrassRoot]

6. That's just what I was going to say. Geesh, rawstory. edit to add more...

And I also bristled at this:

"One victim, now an adult, told police that she had a sexual relationship with Joynes for three years when she was a child in the 1990s. Those offenses were what led to the charges of rape and child abuse."

The article states that the victims were between the ages (grades) of kindergarten and second grade.

I highly doubt a victim would refer to abuse as a "sexual relationship" given the age of the abuse.

I could be wrong, but I highly doubt it.

I'm tempted to write the author of the piece to suggest he remove the photo, and to make sure "sexual relationship" was the verbiage used by the victim or else edit it.

Both have the potential to at least slightly derail this important news story about abuse for readers of RS. It agitated me, and I'm not easily agitated; I can usually focus on the story at hand without being sidetracked by such things. But this bugs me.

[snooper2]

8. "Raw Story" isn't a real news organization

Why they get the traffic they do boggles the mind-

[Brickbat]

9. Yeah, I know. It blows me away that people post their crap here.

[KarKar]

10. here is the Washington Post article

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-21/local/38717525_1_school-meeting-music-teacher-montgomery-county

[historylovr]

4. I'm going to be sick. eom

[sakabatou]

7. *puke*

[In_The_Wind]

11. That's sick.