[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Imus was discussing this on his program this morning. According to the original confession, the father said he told the girl to go into the bathroom so he could cut her hair, because as he said, he knew "it would scare her". She protested saying she didn't want to get her hair cut so he grabbed her by the arm, leaving bruises and forced her into the bathroom, locked the door and then raped her.

Why would he confess to something like this if he was in fact innocent?

[daddyOwe]

A number of yrs back we had a girl in the area raped. The newspaper printed her name. She was a minor. Well the next day she killed herself. It is important to keep the names of rape victims out of the media for this reason.

[kaylar]

I have no idea. I wasn't there. All we know is, the girl is dead. There was no suicide note in which SHE described such abuse. It could be that the father is guilty, that he did this, and he confessed out of remorse. Or it could be that the police just assumed the girl must have been molested , and badgered him into confessing to something he never did out of terror that his other children would become wards of the state . At this point, either scenario seems plausible. Hopefully the truth will come out.