Alleged Mo. rape victim's mom releases secret recordings

[ismnotwasm]

Melinda Coleman secretly recorded conversations with a county prosecutor in a rape case involving her daughter. She says they prove she cooperated with authorities.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Secret recordings made by the mother of an alleged victim in the Maryville, Mo., sexual assault case now headed to a special prosecutor seem to confirm her claims that she cooperated with authorities through the time when felony charges were dropped.

Mo. sex assault case expected to get fresh start

Melinda Coleman, the mother of a girl who says she was sexually assaulted in January 2012 by a then-17-year-old from a prominent Maryville family, provided the recordings to The Kansas City Star via email Thursday.


The recordings, she said, came from a conversation near the end of May 2012 with Nodaway County Prosecuting Attorney Robert L. Rice. She said they support her contention in a story in The Star on Sunday and other media appearances this week that she had willingly spoken with authorities until Rice dropped the two most serious felony charges in March 2012, two months after he'd filed them.

Rice could not be reached for comment Thursday evening.

In announcing that he would request a special prosecutor in the case, Rice said in a news conference Wednesday that charges against the alleged perpetrator and another then-17-year-old had been dropped because "the witnesses never told me they were willing to cooperate and testify after they invoked their Fifth Amendment right in a deposition under oath."

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/alleged-mo-rape-victims-mom-releases-secret-recordings

[BlueToTheBone]

1. What a headline. They/he are the alleged rapists

the rape is not in question.

[ismnotwasm]

3. The whole story is disgusting

Agree completely with the headline, I suppose they did because there is no conviction as yet.

[BlueToTheBone]

4. I'm thinking stupid.

You are more gracious.

[ismnotwasm]

7. Argh--I meant I agree with you

(If I wasn't clear)


This tiptoeing around the word rape when it's clear a crime has been committed, is beyond ridiculous. They could have written a much better headline

[idwiyo]

2. k&r

[Warpy]

5. It certainly proves she was stonewalled

to protect those fine lads and the high school football team.

Methinks there's another school that needs to lose its football program for five years or so until the culture it has fostered is dead and buried.

[ismnotwasm]

6. +1000

Exactly

[NuclearDem]

8. Unfortunately, the culture is going to persist. That's the horror of rape culture.

But otherwise, agree completely. Whatever body regulates high school athletics in Missouri needs to take action.

[Warpy]

9. Maybe some real consequences will be progress toward ending it

Shrugging and saying "boys will be boys" while telling girls to restrict their behavior to a ridiculous extent is not working.