6 yr old charged with felony after playing doctor

[Millefleur]

Apologies if this has been posted, I'z not been online much.

Last week the parents of a Wisconsin boy sued Grant County District Attorney Lisa Riniker for charging their son with first-degree sexual assault, a Class B felony, after he played "butt doctor" with a 5-year-old girl. He was 6 at the time. When the boy's lawyer tried to have the charge dismissed, Riniker replied: "The legislature could have put an age restriction in the statute if it wanted to. The legislature did no such thing."

According to the complaint (PDF), the girl is "the daughter of a well-known political figure in Grant County," and her brother, who is the same age, also was involved in playing doctor but was not charged. In addition to Riniker, the lawsuit names as defendants retired Grant County Sheriff's Sgt. James Kopp and Jan Moravits, an investigator with Grant County Social Services "whose regional supervisor...is the political figure's wife's sister-in-law"—i.e., the aunt of the alleged victim.

Although the boy, now 7, is too young to be prosecuted or named in a juvenile delinquency petitition, Madison.com reports, county officials are using the felony charge to force his parents into accepting "protection or services" for him. The lawsuit says that once he turns 18, he will be listed as a sex offender.

http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/23/paren ... un+Blog%29

And another article with more detail: http://www.channel3000.com/news/29827742/detail.html

Just throwing it on here as I'm rushed off my feet today but this ludicrous story has really pissed me off.

[Animavore]

I'm sure it'll be thrown out of court.

[Svartalf]

How are DAs selected in WI?
'Cause if they are elected, that one maybe ought to go back to standard legal practice rather than campaign.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Do we know who initiated the "play"?

[Gallstones]

Charge the girl too, she may have been the seducer.
Charge the parents of the girl for not supervising her.

Or......take the girls parents out to the woods and shoot them. They should never have been allowed to breed.

None of this is any more ludicrous than charging a six year old with a sex crime.

[Gallstones2]

Isn't there a statue of limitations on this it will be 13 yrs when he will be listed as a sex offender

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Isn't there a statue of limitations on this it will be 13 yrs when he will be listed as a sex offender

The statute is to file charges.

[amok]

Not to mention what an uplifting ruling this could be for true sex offenders who argue a six-year-old can be a willing participant.

The more I think about this, though, the more I think I'd have to know more specifics. The article, obviously, doesn't go into details. Though I'd never dream of labelling a six-year-old a sex offender, if the situation was different than ordinary body-curiosity play (such as forcibly restraining the child by the other two children and non-consensual penetration), I wouldn't object at all to having authorities take a good hard look at what's happening in the life of the accused child(ren).

[Animavore]

The second article linked does give specifics.

The little girl says he touched the back of one of her buttocks," Cooper said.

(more detail in the article)

[Gallstones]

Maybe her daddy got jealous?

[Animavore]

Zing!

[Audley Strange]

Sometimes the people who are the most hysterical about protecting our children from sexuality are often the ones obssessed with child sexuality, ever notice that?

[Gallstones]

Sometimes the people who are the most hysterical about protecting our children from sexuality are often the ones obssessed with child sexuality, ever notice that?

Yes.

[Atheist-Lite]

There is something very wrong with America.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

There is something very wrong with America.

Try not to sound quite so happy when you say that.