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According to an incident report from Slater police, Scott had sexual contact with a female under the age of 14 in June and July 2009.
The report indicates the victim told the investigator she was not forced into the contact, and had consented to it on both occasions.
If convicted of the charges, Scott faces a sentence of from five years to life in Missouri Department of Corrections.
Charges contained in reports provided by law enforcement officials are not evidence of guilt. Evidence supporting charges must be presented before a jury, whose duty is to determine if the accused is guilty or not guilty of the charges.
Contact Kathy Fairchild at marshallhealth@socket.net
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This kid isn't 'troubled',at all.
There's really no one to blame. They BOTH know it was wrong. We have ALL (wether you like it or not) have done something you regret. You all are acting like sex is a bad thing. I know their age difference was a little wrong but this is no 'end of the world situation'. Wildcat101 is totaly right in everyway. Every teen has sneaked away, trust me. Not all teens feel comfertable sharing their sex life to their parents. YOU PARENTS NEVER KNOW WHO YOUR CHILDREN HANG OUT WITH.. You don't get it.. She doesn't need to be counsled. Shes a perfectly beautifull gurl, whose had a rough childhood. I do agree with the system. He should NOT be filed as a sex offender for the rest of his life. It is going to be hard. Its also going to be hard for her too. I know for AFACT that she did not lie about her age. He knew. They had sex, there are people out in the world who are 19 dating a 45 year old, and they do NOT get filed for anything. I think the system needs improving.
Okay this young woman that had made the mistake of doing this with Scott was not the same young moman that had been with the other young man from Slater. That is a very different story so please don't get them mixed up in any was possible. There is also no way to be able to keep an eye on your child at all times, Mostly when they are in their teenage years. I bet that if you have children that are teenagers they will sneak around and lie behind your back at LEAST once in your life. So don't act like your children are perfect, no one is perfect hee. Or anywhere in the world.
All I am trying to get through to you people is that you shouldn't judge things by what you hear. if you don't know the whole story then don't talk about it.
I know that you are intitled to you own opinion. But these people have feelings, too. This is something that is personal. And is no ones business, family and close family friends.
(Add on from my previous comment.)
I have a feeling that you guys are going a little over board. This young girl has anough on her hands without random older women and men talking about her. It was a mistake. And she knows this. She is being punished. She knows what she did was wrong and would never happen again. So please just don't be as mean. How would you like to be talked about behind your back on something so personal that she can't let her family barely know. All I am asking is for people to ease up.
Please and Thank You
Hmm..the PARENTS should be the ones paying for counselling or anything else this "troubled child" needs. It shouldn't be the "publics" problem to pay for this, when the parents (by another post) seem aware that this child IS trouble and continues to lie and sneak around. Most churches offer free counselling, thus the parents shouldn't have any problem at all calling one up and asking the pastor to counsel this young troubled girl.
LuckyMomma who is going to pay for the "treatment" this unfortunate child needs?
I notice that a lot of posters on these "slice of life" articles presented by the MDN, e.g. kids in trouble, drug problems, mental, and emotional problems, that in various ways involve criminality all want to do something with them. It varies from throw them in prison, to get them drug treatment, or counseling, to put them in a proper social environment. Any or all these answers have their place, and possibly would work.
Get real, we don't have enough public money to do any of these things on a consistent basis. We are a nation that is economically floundering.
These are the sort of things that happen when our leaders make arbitrary choices to fight two wars at the same time, spend tax payer dollars to bail out the rich, and allow American corporations to send jobs, and their corporate head quarters to foreign lands to dodge taxes.
Those leaders do not give a **** about our failing social system, and far too many of us don't really care that they do not give a ****. Far too many more of us are manipulated by what one party's leaders, or the other party's tell us to think. Both parties are archaic monsters more concerned about their own survival than what happens to our decaying social order, or our infrastructure for that matter. They continuosly set us off against one another to assure that we don't rise together, and demand a fair break for we second class human citizens of our once great nation.
Who is calling the kettle black americanwoman3? I do not believe that I stated anything about assumptions, but I did state my comment which I am pretty sure is the whole reason of putting an open forum called "Comments". I never claimed to know the facts behind this situation and said so in my opinion. I did not state my opinion about the minor because I felt that it is a given from anyone reading the word CONSENT that the child is obviously a troubled child and therefore is not coming out of this situation smelling like roses. I did not know that this child was a foster child, but should that make a difference? In my opinion it should not, but in your opinion it obviously does and you have the right to have such an opinion. This did not happen once, but at least twice and you have even so graciously provided us with examples displaying that this child's parents or foster parent were fully aware that they were dealing with a troubled minor. I have an even larger problem if you are using the excuse that they are a foster parent as an excuse because they knew this and still CHOSE to take on such a responsibility. No one made them make this choice and as a foster parent it is just that-a choice. They were not biologically responsible for this child, but chose to become one and to get paid for doing so. Becoming a foster parent is what I believe to be a VERY ADMIRABLE AND RECOMMENDABLE choice, but let's not be ignorant to the word 'parent' in that title of foster parent. In my experience the word parent goes hand and hand with the word responsibility. It is reckless and wrong to take on such a position by choice if not ready to take on all responsibility that comes along with becoming a foster parent.
I am glad that you were so quick in making assumptions about my life including if I had children of my own, if I was a foster parent, and even went as far as to assume why I was not was because I was afraid of my reputation. However, since you did and even dared me to answer your overall question about what I would do if my child lied about where they were going, left a location where I dropped them off, blah, blah, blah....let me have the chance to answer your question with one very easy word-discipline!
I know that some children (as well as my own) may lie and stretch the truth to obtain the desired outcome they want, but as a parent it is my job to know and be responsible for taking care of my children too. I know my children are not perfect and I am far from being a perfect parent, but I am fully aware that parenting is a full time job that if not kept on constantly could result in situations like this one which would mean that I failed as a parent especially IF I ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN TWICE.
My point is that if they choose to become a foster parent then they choose to become responsible for being one as well. You are correct that I am not a foster parent, but incorrect about why I choose not to be. I choose not to be because I am busy being a parent to the children that I have now making sure that they are where they are supposed to be, with whom they are supposed to be, and disciplined if not. Do they mess up? I am sure they do and I am sure that they have done stuff that I would not approve of, but I can guarantee that they know better to do the same thing again, because I discipline my children. If they lied about where they were going then I be darned if they went anywhere until after they were ungrounded and when that time came I would take and pick them up. If they left the location then I be darned if they went back to that location again and it would be a long time before they were ungrounded again. Let's not be naive Slater is not a big city, it is a small town community setting where someone knows something about everyone and people talk and if parent did their best to be an active participant in their child's life then there is no reason why they did not know that this child of 14/under was with the same 19 year old male on at least two different occasions, once maybe, but twice?????
That does not mean that I do not appreciate, admire, and applaud those that can and do become foster parents-it means that I will do so if when taking on such a admirable position they do it while taking on full responsibility for their choice to do so, but if they cannot become a full time foster parent then they should not have chosen to become the one most important honor or privilege that an adult can take on-a parent!
Recap-I never took away from the fact that the adult male should take responsibility for this action, or that the minor is not innocent of any wrong doing, but just merely stated that there is a fine line between ignorance and negligence as a parent of whom should be held to some degree of responsibility as well!
A parent is the one who took on the responsiblity of having a child and therefor should know where a fourteen year old is. I'm sorry if she is troubled but did you ever think that maybe since she knows the system so well, she lied to the boy about her age? It happens. It is not fair to always blame the guy just because he is older. Some girls, and I am not saying this one, are worse than guys. And if she can't follow the rules then she should be in residential treatment where she can get the help she needs.
You all are right, you don't know the story behind. What do you do when you check on them and they are where they are supposed to be only to sneak off the second you leave. When you drive them to the youth center (a supposedly adult supervised event) and pick them up only to find out months later they walked right out and did whatever after you left and came back in time to meet you? I don't see any of you raising your hands to take in teenaged foster kids...since you feel you could do so much better, why haven't you signed up? Maybe because if they lie and sneak around your neighbors will assume you are the ones who have raised them and blame you? I know this family and they are good people trying to do the best they can for a very troubled child. Situations just like this are exactly why most teens in need live at places like Butterfields, no one wants to risk their reputations for a kid who knows the system. Gottaluvpolitics, you assume much and know nothing.
gottaluvpolitics,
You said what I was trying to say. Thank you!
Yes the male is old enough to know better and should be charged accordingly, but I can understand the mixed feelings involved with a consenting minor. That is perhaps why I just can't help feeling that the parents of a minor child pressing charges for an action that happened MORE THAN ONCE should be held legally responsible to some degree as well with the charge in mind being one like I don't know child negligence for instance. I don't know the story behind it and it doesn't matter-the boy is an adult and the girl is a minor bottom line, but as I stated before: once shame on the defendant, but twice shame on the defendant and the minor's parents for not knowing where/who their very young daughter is with repeatedly. If they had not committed negligence as parents (reminder this is happened not just one time) then they would have known that their 14/younger daughter was with, which is a factor that should have made them question what a 19 year old male would be doing by deciding to hang around with a minor of that age?!
Ummm ... the word consent is misleading here. She may have agreed to it, but by law, a minor child 16 or younger is not capable of giving consent. That's what the statutory part of statutory rape is all about. The statute/law says nobody can have sex with a minor age 16 or younger. Doesn't matter if the minor agrees and the parents pay for a motel room, the charges reflect on the adult half of the couple. (Same if the adult is female, the minor is male.)
So, these young girls, who may or may not have known better, and aged 14 or younger, asked these older boys , who did know better, for this?!?!?! What kind of world do you live in?!?!?! You can equate everything to being someone elses fault but your own!!! At some point, 18 in the eyes of the US Government, you are old enough to be responsible for your own actions--regardless of who "asked" for it!!! All adults, male and female, need to learn to be responsible for their actions. This boy is 19 and now repsonsible for his decisions and actions, regardless of who "asked" for it in your eyes, the26er.
Was my understanding the first male charged was involved in a consensual encounter with the girl seeking him out, and from reports she may have lied about her age. These were both teenage boys who yes should have abstained due to the age but most all know, particularly if the girl makes the come-on, it is hard for them to turn it down -call it rampant hormones, immature judgement, or whatever. There have always been statutory rape charges, most times initiated by the parents, and most times the girl will not admit to her consensual role. Education is the key - this used to be the role of the parents, the church, and to some extent the schools. We have DARE programs and such dealing with drug use and the illegality of it. Perhaps we need a "reproductive health" program, and do not wait until high school. It needs to happen in late elementary to early junior high. It should encompass not only the physical part of this, but also the emotional and legal aspects of such. I am sure it would have to be an elective class, and if a parent refuses to allow their child to participate, then that should be noted, and it will be assumed that the information will be given to the child in the home environment. If not, hold the parent(s) responsible in the event that their young person decides to be actively involved with a person. Lives are being ruined by these accusations.
I also know that both of these boys are African-American. I want to state I AM NOT before someone immediately takes this statement as "anti-white or racial". Are they being profiled? - due to race, due to economic situation, what hope they had for their future has now become MUCH LESS.
Parents - KNOW WHAT YOUR CHILDREN ARE DOING (both male and female) - I have a young daughter and I have had to be diligent with knowing who she was hanging out with, and speaking with her about these type of situations. We, in fact, have had much conversation regarding these 2 incidents in particular.
GottaLuvPolotics,
My apologies.
I still don't think he should be charged if she consented. It is not fair to ruin his life when she consented just because the parents are upset about the situation and maybe want to protect her and keep her away from him. That may not be the case but it does happen and without all of the facts we don't know. Just my thoughts.
Thank You
Wow luckymomma, I did not mean to take away from the fact that the alleged defendant should be charged if he did do this. I just meant to state that I would question why my child was hanging out with 19 year old male/female if he/she was underage especially if he/she was a 14 year old or younger male/female. At some point parents need to take some responsibility for their children and not wait until AFTER the sex has occurred before asking why their children are hanging around with such older children of the opposite set. Perhaps if that would have been done these two individuals would not have to live with the inevitable results in this unfortunate situation. Now rather the charge ends up being true or not this male's life is forever marked and this young lady will have to live with being called names and being treated cruelly by other people.
Gotta_luv_politics,
I agree with you. The parents should be the ones being held accountable. Why do we always blame the boys? I do not think it is fair to put all of the blame on the guy. Granted, he is an adult and should know better. But if she consented TWICE I don't believe he should be charged.
What the heck is going on-isn't this at least the second charge in Slater in under a year where it has been reported that underage minors have consented to sex? Not that I believe that charges should not be brought on the person of legal age, but where the heck are the parents of these underage minors who are consenting to having sex so young? Once shame on just the alleged defendant (if true as this is still a charge not yet a verdict), but twice...one must question why the parents are not concerned on why their underage children are hanging out with older legal aged adult people of the opposite sex. For crying out loud these are children aged 14 and under, why would this not be questioned by the parents before the sex had a chance to occur?