Man Gets Only 10 Months for Arranging Wife's Rape (Vomit Alert)

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[Ronaldus Magnus]

Man Learns Fate For Arranging Wife's Rape

Judge Sentences Anthony Smith To 10 Months In Jail

Posted: 11:35 a.m. EST February 26, 2003
Updated: 11:56 a.m. EST February 26, 2003

A local man who pleaded no contest to charges he arranged his wife's rape Tuesday learned his fate in court.

A judge sentenced Anthony Charles Smith (pictured, left) to 10 months in jail, Local 4 learned. Authorities said the man arranged the attack of his wife last June to pay off his $5,000 gambling debt.

Police said that the incident happened while the husband laid awake next to her in the Continental Trailer Park, located near Eight Mile and Dequindre roads in Warren. The attacker told Smith to put his face down in a pillow, then began to assault his wife, according to police.

After committing three sexual acts on the woman, the attacker told the husband that he owed $5,000, then left without incident, according to Detective David Andrews.

Smith told police that he lost money playing pool at the Bottoms Up East lounge. His debt reportedly grew to $5,000, according to police.

The woman was reportedly unaware of the gambling debt.

The couple is now divorced, according to Local 4 reports.

Previous Stories:

• December 11, 2002: Man Accused Of Selling Wife For Rape Makes Plea
• August 7, 2002: Man Faces Hearing In Wife's Rape
• July 2, 2002: Family Says Man Didn't Have Wife Raped
• June 28, 2002: Man Allegedly Has Wife Raped To Pay Debt

[Ronaldus Magnus]

This ruling is a disgrace. The sentence should have been at least 10 YEARS. If there is any justice in this world, this man will get to experience the rape he arranged for his wife hourly for the next 10 months.

[Husker24]

This guy looks like a Sascwatch.

[Billthedrill]

How could such an intelligent-looking fellow get in so deep?

(That boy fell out of the ugly tree and hit every stinkin' branch on the way down...)

[Restorer]

The couple is now divorced, according to Local 4 reports.

What a shock!

[Sparta]

Your "justice system" at work.

[EggsAckley]

Hmmm. Trailer park, pool hall, Neanderthal-faced dummy, gambling.

This has all the makings of a Sit-Com.

[kaylar]

Am I paranoid, or does the press have an agenda when they tell their readers that the victim of a heinous crime lives in a trailer court, instead of merely giving the street name? Is it really just reporting the facts...Or are they trying to say,"Who cares about this person? Look where they live!" There was a case of a white man being run over and killed by a whole carload of blacks in Jasper, TX a year or two ago.The sheriff made a big deal out of denying any racial animus behind the murder, and stated repeatedly that it was all over money. Which may be true...But why did the media make such a point of Mr Tilley's middle name of Bimbo, and that he lived in a trailer? In light of James Carville's loathsome remarks at the time of the Paula Jones debacle, I really wonder.

Be that as it may, there was a case looooong ago (in Texas, IIRC) , about 1977-1981. A man and his wife were divorcing, and he wanted revenge. So he goes to a bar, tells some men he met there that his wife had a sexual fantasy over being tied up and gang raped by strangers. He gave them a sum of money, told them that this was her idea, and to ignore her crys and pleas-that it would all be acting. So they got into the house with the ex husband's assistance, overpower, tie up , and rape the ex wife. The rapists were arrested, and that's when they told the police about the 'sex fantasy enacters for hire' routine. Whether they really thought the woman was a willing participant , or if they and the husband cooked up the whole story thinking it would *somehow* get them off the hook, I don't know. There was a lot of media attention over this case, but how it was resolved I don't know. Does this disgusting story ring a bell?

[Arpege92]

How did Bubba Clinton get to decide this man's punishment?

[HEY4QDEMS]

The couple is now divorced, according to Local 4 reports.

That's the problem with these spoiled kids today, one little thing goes wrong and off they go to get a divorce...../sarcasm off

[Theophilus]

That woman should be a widow, not a divorcee.

[billhilly]

"Hmmm. Trailer park, pool hall, Neanderthal-faced dummy, gambling.

This has all the makings of a Sit-Com."

Exactly, and CBS already has it on track. It is to be called "The real Beverly Hillbillys."

[BlackVeil]

I do remember a case with details as you described. If it is the same one - it was in Britain, not America, and in the 1980s. The perps got away with it, because the judge ruled that they had a "reasonable presumption" that the victim was consenting. This caused some controversy. I don't know what happened to the husband.

[Jhoffa_]

I couldn't vote to convict her..

I would even have a hard time voting against the woman who ran down her hubby with a mercedes.

People with no regard for the institution of marriage trouble me greatly. I am just fresh out of sympathy for these people.

[kaylar]

I thought may case was late 1970s/early 1980s, and occured *somewhere* in the US...but maybe not...OTOH, it would not be without the realm of possibility for two scumbags to come up with the same idea in two different countries....Maybe the UK guy was 'inspired' by the earlier crime, IF I'm right about the time frame.

[BlackVeil]

"Woman Only Gets 10 Months for Arranging Her Husband's Murder"

I hope to be reading that headline real soon.

LOL!

This type of crime is rather more common than one would think. Because of gambling, people get these huge debts, and they say "I cannot pay" but the loan shark says "you do have an asset ... " It turns out to be their wife or daughter, or step-daughter, and pressure is put on them to make her available, and even pushed into prostitution. Even women have done this, by lending out their young daughers, in order to pay for a gambling habit. Such degredation - hard to believe. But the gambling addicts will do almost anything.

[Gophack]

But the gambling addicts will do almost anything.

ANY addict will do it. Drug addicts do it for dope.

[Pilsner]

I do remember a case with details as you described. If it is the same one - it was in Britain, not America, and in the 1980s. The perps got away with it, because the judge ruled that they had a "reasonable presumption" that the victim was consenting.

I studied that case (or one just like it) in law school. As I recall (it has been a few years) an RAF Sergeant went into pub, chatted up a couple of RAF Arimen, and told them he and his wife were into kinky sex. Specifically she liked to act out rape fantasies and he liked to watch. If they cared to the Sergeant said (buying another round) they could accompany him home and have a go at his wife. She of course, he told them, would pretend she didn't know anything about it and beg them to stop...

I think the Sergeant was convicted, but the Law Lords over turned the airmen's conviction holding that given what they had been told they could have believed she was consenting and simply pretending to not consent.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

[xp38]

Eight Mile? Wasn't that the title of that Eminem movie? Is this the spot the title refers to?