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Posted on 05/14/2006 10:36:56 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
McKenzie police have charged two Carroll County parents with raping their child.
Jonathan Wayne Goodrum, 19, and Kristina Louise Sawyer, 18, are charged with raping their 1-day-old girl before she was taken home from McKenzie Regional Hospital about six weeks ago, said McKenzie Police Lt. Tim Nanney.
While both parents have been charged, Sawyer's bond was reduced because police still are investigating what role, if any, she played in the possible rape of her child, Nanney said. She was charged because "I could not exclude her from being part of it, so I had to charge her also," he said. "I could not exclude her at the time from being a participant of it."
Nanney said hospital officials notified police of the possible rape after noticing injuries to the child's rear during a routine examination given before newborns are released from the hospital. "There were some skin tears in and around the private (back) area of the child," he said.
The investigation led to the child's parents, Nanney said, and there was no indication that any hospital worker was involved in the incident.
"Based on the investigation, we ruled out everyone but the mom and the dad," Nanney said.
The Tennessee Department of Children's Services has placed the baby girl with a relative, Nanney said. The parents are not allowed to have contact with the girl, who is now about 6 weeks old.
The couple was engaged to be married and was living at the Value Inn Motel on Highland Drive in McKenzie at the time of the incident. Sawyer is a McKenzie native, and Goodrum also has relatives living in Carroll County, though Nanney did not know his hometown.
Goodrum is being held in the Carroll County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond. Sawyer's bond was reduced to $5,000 after her arraignment. Nanney did not know if she still was being held or had been released.
While no trial date has been set, Nanney said one probably would not occur before September.
This @#$%^ runs in familys.
That is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard. Those two wack jobs need to be put out of their misery. If they're not in protective custody, someone will put them out of their misery pronto.
This is so repulsively, disgustingly messed up I cannot comment.
Some things are too evil and depraved for proper articulation.
A bullet to the head and be done with it.
Hmmm. D'ya think this might give her a small hint this isn't the "right" guy to marry?
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This is exactly why I favor cruel and unusual punishment.
They should both be shot. There's no justification for their actions...NONE!
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This crap is becoming more and more common. I imagine it won't be long before the ACLU gets some "judge" to say that this kind of crap is a parent's "right" and should be made legal.
What they did makes me miserable and if they are miserable, it is only because they were caught.
How did they manage to rape the baby while in the hospital?
I want to throw up all over the place
The reason I question this is because of the incredibly thin fragile skin of a newborn. If it was truly a sexual assault of some kind, I would think there would be more evidence. I also have seen way to many stories in the past of overzealous hospital workers, when it comes to cases of child abuse.
I am not saying this story isn't true, I will follow it, but I am saying it is almost too bizarre to be true. Why in the heck would a father do this in a hospital of all places? Something isn't adding up.
Evil incarnate.
Two bullets to the head for the both of them.
This sounds so unbelievable to me as well. I truly doubt thi couple is guilty...mainly out of sheer hope that no one could do such a thing.
That's it...kill them before there is any actual proof. If a day old baby was actually raped, there should be massive internal injuries. What an absolute nioghtmare for these parents if the story is a lie or they were not theones who hurt the baby.
Something is fishy. Looks like many people will have to be charged.
How do you dare to question such horrible accusations? They must be true! /SARCASM
Things like this make demonic possession a real possibility. I have no other explanation for filth like it. I don't believe people have this kind of propensity by natural inclination, I just don't.
This is why I could never be a cop. I would take the parents into the woods and shoot them.
But molesters and their enabling partners were often molested themselves. I didn't mean it ran in families by nature, but by nurture.
Which brings me back to not wanting the baby in the hands of the families involved untill investigation is complete.
Why to have trials at all? The mere charges should be enough.
You would expect there to be something, for pete's sake--in the diaper, anyway.
Many are quick to condemn whoever did harm to a baby, but lets make sure that a crime was committed, and that the guilty party is drawn and quartered after making sure they are the guilty ones.
Not being able to find anyone else to pin the charge on is a pretty weak case. I'd think there should be some security video somewhere, too.
A bullet to the head and be done with it.
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Too quick, IMO.
Hmmm. D'ya think this might give her a small hint this isn't the "right" guy to marry?
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She probably digs it. And I would be willing to bet this was not the first atrocity that these 2 have committed together.
How did they manage to rape the baby while in the hospital?
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Most of the time, the baby is in the room with the mother.
I didn't mean to make it sound like I had an argument with what you said. It's good to be skeptical until something stronger to go on is provided.
Well, they "ruled out" all their personnel, so it had to be the parents.
I wonder how they "ruled out" their personnel...
"she was charged because "I could not exclude her from being part of it, so I had to charge her also,"
"Something is fishy. Looks like many people will have to be charged."
Parents in a motel, unwed mother, Mmmmm, might this be a set up? Babies can become a black market commodity and doctors/ social service administrators might be involved.
OMG, this is sick.
Of course, only guilty people are ever charged with a crime.
There's no proof these two did anything to the child.
The rules of paranoiac mind are peculiar - there is a established order in which guilt is assigned. Parent are before personnel.
I agree with the two of you. If this is true it is a horrible thing, but I would hate to see someone wrongfully accused. I remember when my daughter was a baby the fold of skin at the rectum was very thin and tended to tear.
What's so unusual about an unwed mother? More than a third of births are to unwed mothers.
You have to blame and punish somebody/anybody.
Two bullets: one each to the back of the head of these slime.
What's wrong with a trial?
OK, you're right. First, the trial. If found guilty, maximum one year for appeal (as it should be for all death penatly cases). THEN, the execution.
There's no proof these two did anything to the child.
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You are correct. My comments apply only based on an assumption of guilt. What I have said is just my visceral response, which I would certainly control if I were in the jury.
And, while I think that such a crime should be a capital offense, I certainly believe that a proper trial would first have to determine guilt.
It's not unusual these days but given the situation it places her in a more dangerous situation regarding social services case development (and she's young by some standards.) If someone was to be a target for an orchestrated baby snatching by a ring of professionals, she'd be a candidate.
Any idea how much a white baby could bring on a global black market?
Many years ago (40 or 50 years back) I had friends I grew up with in Boston who were on the Boston police force.
One of them told me that there was one crime that is never talked about or reported in the newspapers and that is incest.
He told me how he had arrested a father the day before, for cutting open his daughters private parts with a knife, and having sex with her. They rushed the daughter to Boston City hospital, and she was in serious condition. He said that won't make the papers.
This selective censoring of the news on incest and other sex related crimes is one of the reasons IMHO that the Church sex scandal in Boston got so far along before being exposed, as no one wanted to talk about it in Boston,not even the press, until it got so bad t couldn't be ignored. - Tom
There's no need to favor cruel AND unusual punishment, just make cruel punishment usual. That way it will pass constitutional muster.
Stats Show Sex Offenders Don't Re-offend
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