MSNBC: Mo. (Hornbeck/Ownby) kidnap suspect charged with (forcible) sodomy (71 felony counts)

[TheWraith]

CLAYTON, Mo. - A Missouri man accused of kidnapping two boys and holding one for more than four years was charged Monday with forcible sodomy.

St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch announced the 71 new felony charges at a news conference on Monday.

The charges include two kidnapping counts; the remainder allege forcible sodomy. Each is a felony that carries a sentence of up to life in prison.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16991916/

[MrSlayer]

1. I say give him over to the family.

And let the bastard get what he deserves.

[rubberducky]

3. Oh!!! How I agree.

[greenissexy]

9. sigh

More violence won't help! Why suggest something that will just make the problem worse?

As to the sodomy charges, we have more moralists trying to legislate morality by using the scary word sodomy. Let's just call it sexual assault rather than trying to appease those religious nuts by using their biblical words.

[MrSlayer]

11. How would it make it any worse?

You can't really do worse than raping and torturing children. Slowly feeding this guy into a woodchipper feet first is not worse than what he did and it's no more than he deserves. Sigh all you want but putting this sick asshole into protective custody for the rest of his life to swap jerk off stories with the other sickos doesn't solve anything either.


Edit: typo

[Mike Daniels]

26. I imagine that solitary confinement

is the only thing that's going to keep this guy alive more than a day once his ass lands in the jail.

Short-eyes don't rank very high on the prison respect chain.

[Sapere aude]

12. I think it has legal connotations. It is more than a biblical word. IMHO

[LisaL]

17. It's likely is a legal definition.

[Megahurtz]

19. Aaaeh......

I say lop off the entire package. That'll solve the problem. Then let the inmates have him.

[Miss Chybil]

24. If sodomy is the name of the crime on the books, that's the way they will charge him.

"Sighing" and debating semantics when two kids have "allegedly" been ripped from their families and raped, one for years, really isn't going to help, either.

[Tansy_Gold]

25. Welcome to DU, greenissexy, and I agree with you

Even if I'm the only one, I still agree with you.

Tansy Gold

[Eurobabe]

2. Disgusting, we all knew that had happened in our hearts

didn't we? He weren't playing dominoes with those young boys. :puke:

These types of people should be castrated. There I said it.

[DKRC]

5. For a start, yeah, but don't stop there. nt

[hippiechick]

4. How sad for those boys ...

:( I really hope they and their families can find the counseling, strength and support to sort their way(s) through this.

What a monster! :spank:

[liberalnurse]

6. One would think the charges

would be rape and gross sexual imposition of a minor.:cry: :shrug:

[TheWraith]

8. Under Mo. law, rape only applies to forced sexual intercourse.

Therefore under the law it's impossible to "rape" a male.

[LisaL]

16. One would think wrong, considering rape involves

sexual intercourse between a male and a female.

[liberalnurse]

18. That is indeed one form of sexual assult/rape...

here is a little simple research for your amuzement........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape

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Some even further restrict rape to cases where a woman is forced by a man, however, it is also rape when men are forced into a sexual act by women or other men.



http://www.highlandcoso.com/2907.05.htm

[LisaL]

20. He is going to be charged under specific definitions by state laws,

not by what wikipedia says.
:eyes:

[TheWraith]

21. Okay, you walk up to these boys' families and tell them that the boys weren't raped.

Or that what was done to them was a lesser offense than if it had been two girls.

[LisaL]

22. Oh for crying out loud. Who is saying this is a lesser offense?

If the legal definition of rape involves intercourse between a man and a woman, he can not be charged with rape under the law.
What does the lesser offense has to do with it?

[TheWraith]

23. Your post number 16 makes no such distinction.

While you're right that MO law (not all law, but MO law) doesn't reflect the broader definitions of rape, the attitude you seemed to be espousing is that that's the correct interpretation and that what happened to these boys is not really rape.

[truthisfreedom]

7. He's going to need serious protection in prison.

I hope he doesn't get it.

[hlthe2b]

10. So will O'liely still say these boys didn't want to come home--

because they were having such a "good time?" :mad:

[Sapere aude]

13. Forcible sodomy is a good time to O'Riley I guess. Mr. Luffa man.

[AngryOldDem]

28. It;'s the no spin zone, remember!

:eyes:

I'm sure Bill will definitely have some explanation for this.

[951-Riverside]

14. Each time he sodomized them?

or did they just make up that number?

[bling bling]

27. Looks like 17 of the charges are for the boy who was held 4 days.

The rest are for the boy who was held for 4 years. I'm so happy those boys were found alive but it's so, so sad to hear what they had to go through.

From stltoday.com:

"Altogether, McCulloch said, Devlin was charged with one count of kidnapping and 17 counts of forcible sodomy relating to the abduction last month, and a second count of kidnapping and 52 more counts of forcible sodomy relating to the abduction in 2002. Each count carries a penalty of up to life in prison."

[bluerum]

15. Now I know why Billy O'Really was so jealous of these kids,,,,,, eom

[OneBlueSky]

29. sorry, but they did NOT need to announce this . . .

just the kidnapping charges are enough to keep this guy in prison for the rest of his life . . . pursuing, and publically announcing, the sexual abuse charges serves no purpose, other than to make the lives of these two kids even more miserable . . . jmho, of course . . .

[NashVegas]

30. They Did Need to Announce This

You can't have a trial where the charges aren't known. In the long run, it's better for the boys to face the entire scope - and public knowledge of it - than it would be to have to go around keeping a secret.

[RebelOne]

31. Well, it looks like he will get a taste of his own medicine in jail.

Even hardened criminals don't think kindly of child abusers.