Bus driver takes $10 to let a girl get raped??!!??

[Archae]

$10??!!?? :mad:

Bus Driver Sent To Prison For Ignoring Attack
Authorities: Driver Took $10 Bribe

POSTED: 5:25 pm CDT July 23, 2005

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A former South Carolina school bus driver has been sentenced to five years in prison for taking a $10 bribe to ignore the sexual assault of a girl on her bus.

The driver, Lacey Bolen, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact.

Prosecutors said two students attacked the 14-year-old girl in January.

They said Bolen could have stopped the assault by using a panic button that would've alerted authorities.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/education/4761696/detail.html

[derby378]

1. Panic button worked really fucking good, didn't it?

Oh, great. First my thread in GD where I report on some asshole who suggests members should the Million Mom March to be raped, and now this.

[Archae]

2. I posted this...

To show just what bastards people can be.
I wouldn't have accepted a million dollars myself, I'd have hit the button.
But to let a teenage girl get raped, this guy deserves far more time.

[Champ]

3. Yes

Bill Gates doesn't even have enough money for me to accept a bribe for THIS

[iconoclastic cat]

4. Oh, I have a feeling one of his cellmates will have read derby's MMM post.

[gmoney]

6. Bus driver a woman?

Driver's name was Lacey...

[LisaL]

10. The driver was a female.

And she does deserve more time.

[RPM]

5. good christ

:cry:

[MissB]

7. Yeah.

So inhuman.

[Champ]

8. If this was my bus

I would've stopped the students myself, even if they were bigger, stronger I wouldn't care. It's just one of those things that piss me off the most, I hate rapists and could never forgive one. I can find it in my heart to forgive someone who has murdered but never this. :grr: :grr: :grr:

[HawkerHurricane]

9. Not merely a stupid bastard...

but a CHEAP stupid bastard.

[johnnie]

11. OK, I know this will get me in a lot of trouble but...

The term "rape" is usually perceived as intercourse without consent. Technically it is anything that is forcing something that is unwarranted.
I didn't see anywhere in the article that referred to "rape" as it is commonly perceived.
Can I ask why you used the word "rape" and not "sexually assaulted" in your subject?

[Archae]

12. Rape is sexual assault.

Even if it's just grabbing a woman's breasts without her consent.

[LisaL]

14. I don't think so.

Not by legal definition, no.
http://www.bridgew.edu/Handbook/RighttoKnow/RapeandSexualAssaultDefinitions.cfm

[johnnie]

15. So...

If a woman or anyone for that matter slaps my ass, I can say I was raped?

[LisaL]

16. Nope.

Rapes involves penetration. So, obviously, just slapping your a$$ wouldn't be rape. Using a foreign object would be.
http://www.bridgew.edu/Handbook/RighttoKnow/RapeandSexualAssaultDefinitions.cfm

[johnnie]

17. Not according to the OP

I didn't see anything about penetration in the story, but this thread stated she was raped.

[LisaL]

20. Whatever the boys did to this 14 year old, the driver is a sicko.

[johnnie]

23. I agree 100%

The driver is a piece of shit. I'm not advocating her behavior at all, I am just wondering why the OP used the terms they did.

[MissB]

19. The article that was linked was rather vague, wasn't it?

It just said sexual assault - nothing more specific. It didn't even say what charges the two teens were charged with.

[LisaL]

21. The girl is underage.

[MissB]

22. Yeah, but do the newspapers not note what the teens are charged with?

Around here they protect the identity of the underaged victim, but they still note what the charges are resulting from the assault.

I think all Johnnie is trying to say is that "sexual assault" is a pretty broad term. The girl may or may not have been raped during the sexual assault- but unfortunately we can't make that jump from the article that was posted.

[johnnie]

24. That's basically what I am saying

I do not advocate any type of sexual assault in any manner, but to post a thread just to get a reaction by changing the story is wrong. And I have nothing but respect for Archae, I have always enjoyed his threads, but I just thought this was a bit over the top.
Sorry Archae...

[Robeson]

13. $10 dollars for 5 years in prison.....

...looks like she made a shitty deal. Hope she likes broom handles. She's about to see alot of them...

[TBreeze]

18. That's just sick

:mad: