The jury needed only four minutes to convict her boyfriend and only two minutes to decide to sentence him to life in prison.
The boys in Huntsville will surely take things from there.
Posted on 05/09/2008 3:34:24 AM PDT by Zakeet
TYLER, Texas — A jury again needed just four minutes Thursday to convict an organizer of an East Texas swinger's club where prosecutors say young children were forced to perform sexual acts for an audience.
Shauntel Mayo, 29, faces life in prison after being found guilty on charges that she forced three siblings, ages 7 through 10, to have sex with each other or perform sexual acts for club members who paid to watch.
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The jury needed only four minutes to convict her boyfriend and only two minutes to decide to sentence him to life in prison.
The boys in Huntsville will surely take things from there.
Get a rope. No, get several for each and every audience member as well.
four minutes too long.
maybe I’m reading too much into it, but that picture looks like she’s feeling oh-so-sorry for herself. She sees herself as a victim.
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080507/NEWS08/805070302
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080508/NEWS08/501116981/-1/FRONTPAGE
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... I... don't think I trust myself to say anything right now that isn't some sort of obscenity...
Words fail...
This is one of those times when a public flogging should be included in that sentence. Despicable excuses for human beings. I just hope that those children can somehow get beyond this and lead better lives than what they have seen up until now.
He is guilty as sin.
Kill them both now. They are just tainting the air that decent people breathe.
Naaah... I would guess with the guy, one or more of the jurors bitched for a minute or two that they couldn’t sentence them to death. With the second, the juror was still fuming but was done bitching. Damn good jury IMHO.
Guilty.
Death by slow torture would be appropriate for these two evil people.
Anyone remember an actress named Susan dey..loooks like her twin sister
That’s a “hard” 29 years on her..
>>>four minutes too long.
Afraid not. This gives the appellate counsel grounds to claim the jury did not even try to consider the evidence and judge’s instructions fairly. Four minutes to retire, get settled, select a foreman, and properly evaluate the “complexities” of the evidentiary and legal issues before them could very well get this case sent back.
It would have been much better if they had played a few hands of poker before returning to the court.
FLDS?
Incredibly Guilty, regardless of what she looks like. What a monster.
sad ping
Took them 4 minutes to calm the gag reflex and to restrain jurors 4 and 6 from going out to the truck and getting their guns.
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Per the links Kemp is a Texas Ranger who was contacted by someone in the DA's office. The Swinger's Club was located in Mineola.
Rhetorical: Am I the only one who thinks there should be a very extensive and deep investigation into the Mineola Police Department? Thank God Texas still has the Rangers and apparently it still only takes one Ranger.
TYLER - Children testified against their own mother Wednesday, in the so-called "Mineola Swinger's Club" trial at the Smith County Courthouse.
Inside that 'club', which was a rented-out business that ironically once served as a daycare and hospital, 29-year-old Shauntel Mayo and five others are accused of running an operation that forced young children to dance and perform sexual skits for food.
Five of the children are now in custody and three of them are Mayo's kids.
Texas Ranger Phillip Kemp, the lead investigator in the case, testified today that he believes that at least 15 more kids 'performed' at the "Mineola Swinger's Club" - but the investigation to locate them continues.
In March and less than 10 minutes after deliberating, a Smith County jury found Mayo's live-in boyfriend, 36-year-old Jaime Pittman, guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child and he was sentenced to life behind bars.
At the times the alleged assaults took place in 2005, the defendant's children were a five-year-old girl, six-year-old boy and seven-year-old girl. The sibling's aunt and defendant's sister, who was also six-years- old, also testified she was forced to dance and have sex with the other children.
Late Wednesday afternoon, three young children and one teenager, took the stand and answered questions about Mayo's involvement in the case.
"We learned to strip (at 'kindergarten')," said the seven-year-old. " I had to touch my privates with my sister's and brother's privates for the people in the club."
The little boy testified about stripping for an audience that paid money to watch.
KETK does not identify sexual assault victims nor the new parents of these children.
According to the adoptive mother's testimony, three years removed from the sex ring, the kids still suffer extreme behavioral, emotional and physical problems.
One after another, the children described in graphic detail of a place they dubbed 'kindergarten.'
At 'kindergarten,' they said they learned how to strip, dance and perform sexual acts. First on dolls, then on each other. They also testified about 'silly pills.' Those pills were what each kid described they were given before going on stage. Prosecutors testified that the pills were likely Vicodin.
Upon "graduating" from 'kindergarten' the children said they moved on to "perform" at the club. After patrons paid a fee to get in, the kids say they had sexual contact with other children in front of an audience - including siblings and family members.
Jury members -- six men and four women -- cried as the kids testified. The children would not look at their mother until prosecutors asked them to identify and article of clothing she was wearing. Mayo sobbed upon seeing her kids and hearing the recollection of the events that took place, allegedly, in her care.
The children were adopted by a 60-year-old woman and man who said they have served as foster parents for 37 years.
ping
The face of evil!
Also the people who belonged to that "club" should be arrested as well for anything related to endangerment of children, etc. etc. etc. Throw the book at them!
Ummm, no.
LOL!
How could a club like this operate and who were the patrons of the club?
Looks like an ugly Susan Dey or maybe Susan Dey on crack.
Her name is Shauntel? If you didn’t see her, you would guess by that name that she is black. And she kind of looks like one of those po’ white trash types that go on “The Jerry Springer Show” and say she wishes she was black and tries to talk and act like blacks.
Geeze
susie
An FLDS Swingers Club?
Words fail me. She sobbed. Only because she got caught.
***Expletives deleted***
Kickbacks or patrons.
I’m with you.
Glad there are still juries with common sense in this world.
“get several for each and every audience member as well.”
Totally agree.
Here are a list of stories from the Typler paper regarding the investigation, arrest and trails. There are still others to be tried and the perp shown above has six addidtional charges pending under which he can be tried.
UPDATE: 'Swingers Club' Defendant Gets Life in Prison
Date: 05/08/08 | Tyler
Siblings Testify They Were Forced Into Sexual Acts
Date: 05/08/08 | East Texas
Girl Testifies About Classes That Taught Sexual Acts At 'Mineola Swingers Club'
Date: 05/07/08 | Tyler
Tyler Woman Going To Trial In 'Mineola Swinger's Club' Case
Date: 05/04/08 | East Texas
Mineola Swinger's Club Trial Set May 5 For Second Defendant
Date: 04/26/08 | East Texas
Another Arrest Made In Connection With 'Swingers Club'
Date: 04/01/08 | East Texas
And several more articles
More like someone who ate Susan Dey and her sister.
I’m glad the children have been adopted. That’s the only good thing I found in this article. It’s just horrible!!!
"The foster mother then took her to the Mineola police to make a report but during an interview at the Children’s Advocacy Center, the girl was afraid to talk to the officers. Later, she said she wanted to tell the officers the truth but the Mineola police refused to allow her back for an interview, she said...SourceTexas Ranger Sgt. Phillip Kemp began investigating the “Mineola Swingers’ Club” in November 2005 after he was contacted about the sexual abuse allegations by Assistant Smith County [Mineola is in Wood County] District Attorney Tiffany Wickel...
Mineola police investigated the case for one day but Kemp investigated it for two years, he said, adding that no one from the Mineola Police Department ever contacted him about it.
They should be in a “Swingers Club” alright—swinging from a tree!
I suspect that the Mineola police department is only about 4 or 5 officers. The population of the city is under 6,000. Small towns of that size usually have poorly funded and undertrained police departments.
Ironically, according to Wikipedia, "Before 1873 the place was called Sodom."
However, I am having a bit of trouble actually believing this. It has all the earmarks of the infamous McMartin Preschool case in which the supposed victim children were fed the stories they testified to by the investigators and counsellors. False memories about events that never happened were instilled in the impressionable children by "therapists" who asked them leading questions, provided possible scenarios of depraved activities, and suggested the "correct" answers to children who wanted to please the adult therapists.
How did the "swing" club go about recruiting an audience for such a performance. Even swingers would most likely immediately report such child sexual abuse to the authorities. Swingers are generally interested in sex with other adults, not with children.
There was a mention of one of the children saying they had been video taped in their "performances." Was this video tape found? Was it used at trial? I saw no references to its use as evidence. It's a strange omission from the story if it was used.
She’s sad because she got caught and can’t screw little kiddies anymore.
Chuck Norris would take care of that police force, by golly.
Can you imagine how many MORE children were exposed to this stuff by those monsters. GRRRRR....
Looks like he’s got an IQ of about 8.
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