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turbinetree

(24,688 posts)
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 10:48 PM Jul 2018

Alabama sheriff who supported Roy Moore accused of sex with underage girls

Todd Entrekin is alleged of sexual misconduct at "drug-fueled parties he hosted for fellow law enforcement officers."

FRANK DALE JUL 21, 2018, 1:38 PM

Failed Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore was endorsed by Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin despite numerous accusations of Moore’s inappropriate sexual behavior with minors. Now Entrekin has also been accused of having sex with underage girls.

AL.com, the publication that broke much of the news regarding Moore’s alleged sexual misconduct, reports Entrekin is under investigation after being accused of sexual misconduct at “drug-fueled parties he hosted for fellow law enforcement officers and other adult men in the early nineties.”

AL.com detailed the timeline of the accusations:

https://thinkprogress.org/alabama-sheriff-who-endorsed-roy-moore-accused-of-sex-with-underage-girls-c908bcb457c6/


This is just fucking disgusting......................


https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections&p0=263&year=2018&month=11&day=6&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&fromtheme=election

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edbermac

(15,936 posts)
1. FAKE NEWS!!
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 10:53 PM
Jul 2018

Godly Republicans from Trump on down would NEVER engage in such disgusting and immoral behavior!

BigmanPigman

(51,582 posts)
4. Why are there so many men involved with underage sex partners?
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 11:08 PM
Jul 2018

Is it just coming out of the wood work now and there have always been this many? Is it a symptom of our current society, religion, political affiliation, gender, age, race, etc? It seems much more common or is it just being revealed and has been stays quo but silent?

Initech

(100,056 posts)
6. Honestly I think it's a symptom of Good Old Boy southern white culture.
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 11:32 PM
Jul 2018

White conservatives have been able to get away with so much for so long because no one challenges them. But now in the #MeToo movement we're finally starting to see real damage of what these assholes have been able to get away with. The good old boys are a dying breed and everyone knows it.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
12. I think religion & the desire for the 'values of the good old days' plays a role ... at least in the
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 11:28 AM
Jul 2018

justification they use to themselves.

The Bible's pretty chock-full of virgin-worship (as has been common across many, many religions and cultures thru history), and there's all kinda references to quite young women getting married, having babies, etc. There's also of course the general 'men are the rulers' patriarchal attitude that it promotes.

Deep down they likely knew damn well that what they're doing was wrong, but the Bible don't ever really say so, in fact, Bible seems to suggest it's just FINE, y'all. Back in the good ol' Biblical days, 20-30 y.o. men were pluckin' themselves virgin brides to start their brood right and left, after all, and God didn't care!

But guess what, Jethro? The average 15 year old in 100BCE ... she knew how to sew, how to cook, how to gut a chicken, tend to a garden, dress a serious wound, and had probably watched numerous people (let alone animals) die already, and maybe helped bury them or build their funeral pyres. She also likely grew up regularly seeing and esp. hearing ... people having sex, cause there weren't any 'master bedrooms' unless you were royalty. She'd also lived on average 1/3 of her life already. Simply put, being 15 yo in those days was probably comparable to being 25 yo, nowadays.

People then also didn't have NEARLY the range of 'partner options' that we do in today's world. People didn't come into contact with 100's of strangers every day. They couldn't make phone calls, grab a flight somewhere, or just pick up and move easily.

It was a WAY more hard-scrabble and brutal existence, and people were fighting just to stay alive. Can't really apply 'the situation' in 100BCE Jerusalem ... to 20th Century America.

Initech

(100,056 posts)
13. No doubt the highest ranking membes of the Good Ol' Perverts Club have a virgin fetish.
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 12:26 PM
Jul 2018

Because that's something that all religions teach in some form or another. That's why creeps like Roy Moore targeted high schools and specifically young girls. It's what JAYSUS and all the gods would want!

Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
3. Looks as if he hosted his parties at a beach house he bought with jail funds he misappropriated:
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 11:06 PM
Jul 2018

Alabama Sheriff Buys Beach House With Inmates’ Food Funds



Getty Images/iStockphoto
Photo courtesy of Canoe.com

Autumn Lewis, Reporter
March 19, 2018

Alabama sheriff Todd Entrekin legally used more than 750,000 dollars from funds meant to feed inmates to buy his self a beach house.

The Etowah County sheriff told news sources that he follows a state law passed before World War II that allows him to pocket “excess” inmate feeding funds for himself.

And according to state and law officials in Alabama, Entrekin is correct. It is legal to do this.

Alabama has a law that allows sheriffs to “keep and retain” unspent money from jail food provision accounts.

More:
https://elpaisanoonline.com/news/2018/03/19/alabama-sheriff-buys-beach-house-with-inmates-food-funds/

If Sheriff Entrekin says Roy Moore didn't bugger female children you can be sure he's telling the truth.

BigmanPigman

(51,582 posts)
5. But, but he LOOKS so look nice!
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 11:11 PM
Jul 2018

He doesn't look like anyone of those vile, elite liberals that are the scum of the earth.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
9. Just to clear something up....
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 01:25 AM
Jul 2018

There are a just few counties in Ala. that still have the food money law, and they are being being changed.

this guy was being investigated for some time over that 750,000.

the child sex thing was uncovered in the investigation.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
7. Didn't that Sheriff lose his reelection bid?
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 12:22 AM
Jul 2018

Maybe I read wrong, but I thought that I read that he lost a primary.

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