Stories of Star Football Player, Victim at Odds

[BlackSnake]

This story made me think that parents are allowing their children to grow up out of the relm of reality. This is the same old story that have been told time and time again.

What are your feelings in these times?

Rape Case Stirs Controversy

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

Reads like a modern To Kill a Mockingbird. She may be right, he may have raped her... but he's a promising young man, he's obviously at least appearing levelheaded about this.

I feel for him, I do.

edit: Before I get blasted, I sympathize with the girl. I do. I'm not saying she hasn't rights or isn't deserving of justice or any of that... I'm not even saying it didn't happen. I'm just saying, a bright, promising young athlete like that--after pulling his life together--looking at a ruined future... that's sad. Even if he did it, its a tragedy that he did that to his life.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Dixon admits that he had sex with the 15-year-old girl, so the statuary rape charge is justified.

It doesn’t matter if she tripped him and beat him to the ground. Sex with a minor requires a set penalty for having sex with a minor. That’s why it is a statutory crime.

It doesn’t matter whether the sex was consensual or not. It doesn’t matter if it happened in Georgia USA or Georgia (former) USSR. It doesn't matter if he was a good student or a Lodi. It doesn't matter if he had a football scholarship or a McDonald’s application. It doesn't matter if he was black or chartreuse.

That said, the story did not say (and why didn’t it) how old Dixon was when it happened. If he was about to enter college he should not have been much over eighteen. What is the age of consent in Georgia? Was HE over the age of consent?.

So, I’m not so sure about the child molestation charge, or whether a ten-year sentence is justified. One would have to compare Dixon’s sentence to sentences in similar cases involving people of a similar age, where race, sports, and publicity were not a factor.

 

[cantdog]

Very level-headed, as usual, Burley. You are always the scalpel which cuts through to the kernel of any matter. I wish I had you in my classes when I was teaching.

In most places, you can fuck a fifteen-year-old if you're sixteen, but not if you're twenty. Good sense doesn't enter into it; it's a law, and the law is an ass.

In any really compassionate society, it would only be a crime if he had forced her, and their relative ages would pale into insignificance compared to whether or not it were consensual. However, we live in a backwards-ass society, where sports matter much more than rape, color than consent, publicity more than anything.

How depressing. My every encounter with the laughably-named "justice system" only confirms my low opinion of house apes.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

The baseball jocks at my ol' high school raped a (male) freshman with a broomstick, the football jocks were known for being a bit "agressive" in their "acquiring" of pussy trophies, and our school covered every damn thing up they could because of the amount of lawyer daddies in the rich white sector of the school.

Perhaps if he had been rich and white it all could have been "taking care of" for him.

And rape is a serious matter. If she is lying, this is not the issue to be doing it in and if she's not the guy is no worse than the assholes at my school. They deserve a little time getting to know Bubba in the prison circuit until they learn what "no" means.

 

[R. Richard]

One thing that needs to be pointed out here. It is not possible to have consensual sex with an underage child. The child is not legally able to give consent. Sex with an underage child is always statutory rape. That is the law.

The way the law is interpreted, however, gets into issues about the age difference between the two parties. If one of the parties is 15 and the other 16, it is not prosecuted as statutory rape.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

The statutory rape charge is obviously applicable. Nothing really changes that and he admits he had sex with someone under the age of conscent.

The rest of the case boils down to a case of he said/she said. Many cases of rape come down to the victim's word vs. the word of the alleged perpatrator. In these cases, it falls to the jury to decide who is the more credible.

In my opinion it hurts Dixon's credibility to admit he had sex with her, as this makes him guilty of statutory rape reguardless of any other finding by the jury. Race may play some part in it, but so can a lot of other things.

It makes me incredibly angry to see lawyers calling ten years for aggravated rape excessive or cruel and unusual. I think it's far too leinient. The victim is sentenced to a lifetime of dealing with it. I understand their contention is that it wasn't aggravated, but that dosen't excuse them fom acting responsibly. Decrying a long sentence for a rapist sends the message that crimes against women are not that big a deal.

As with most articles, I believe a huge range of information isn't included that should be for the reader to draw an informed conclusion. His age, the age of conscent, the physical damage she sustained, in essence anything of import to drawing a conclusion is totally abscent.

You can only take the jury's verdict and assume it is supported by what was brought out in court. To assume othrwise is to make a vote of no confidence in the country's judical system, IMHO.

-Colly

 

[BlackSnake]

The first thing that hit me was, "Boy, what the hell was your adopted parents thinking when they decided to live in Floyd county."

People went all out to help this boy. Checkout the website: http://www.act4justice.com/

I say that he spent to much time playing sports and studying, and not enough time checking out his surroundings. You live in Rome, GA. boy!

15 year olds are visibly dating older boys, and judging by the way they kiss and grop...they are doing more. You can see that happening nearly every weekend at the Mall.

Mr. Dixion is guilty of statutory rape, I don't know about the aggravated child molestation part.

By saying that her father was a racist and she feared him, only proves that Dixion has been living in a bubble. Even if her father wasn't a racist, he should have assumed that her father was one.

I like this part:
"Why would she lie?" he said. "She was scared of her dad (what with) him being a racist."
Dude, it really doesn't matter if her dad's a racist or not. You fucked his little girl. Do you hear what I'm screaming.

I paid some attention to this and I just had to believe that his parents forgot to teach him about the realities of life. He was chasing his goals and not learning about life.

What I got out of this was parents should really prepare their children for the realities of life, love, and happiness.

I remember when my mother found out that I was pushing up on white girls when I was in high school. The first thing she said was that I was going to get killed messing around with those white girls. I didn't listen, but she came very close to being right. I got chased and shot at. You'd think we now live in a world where like she said:
"It doesn't matter what color he is," she said. "It's what his actions are."
I thought it sounded couched, but anyways. The girl, in my opinion, is right. It's what you do.

My plea is for all you parents to be straight up with your children. Don't beat around the bush. Prepare them for life so they can realize their dreams. Be open, straight to the point, and unyeilding with boys as well as girls. You do that and you won't be on the news crying "not my baby!"

- Don't let this happen to you.