HOUSTON -- The mother of a 10-year-old girl accused of raping a 4-year-old boy in their apartment complex said police have got it all wrong.
“She was just being a child having fun and playing,” the woman said. “She didn’t know she was doing anything wrong.”
According to the mom, the girl has been charged with raping the boy in the courtyard of the complex.
Houston Police confirmed an incident was reported back in April. A juvenile sex crimes investigator was assigned to the case, and an arrest was made late last week.
“Me and my mom were crying and then she took me to the police car,” said the little girl. “I didn’t want to get in.”
“Just to see her looking through those bars screaming for me to get her out was a nightmare,” added the mom.
Eventually the little girl was transported to the downtown juvenile justice complex, where she was fingerprinted, issued a standard jump suit and locked up in a cell.
“And that was my first time being there and I was scared. I thought something was going to happen to me,” said the little girl.
She spent four days in lockup before being released. Still without an attorney, activist Quanell X has stepped in to defend her.
“This was nothing more than inappropriate horseplay,” Quanell X said. “That’s what this was. That’s gone a little bit too far and criminalizing a 10-year-old child.”
But exactly what happened that day remains unclear. If convicted, the girl could have to register as a sex offender, and her mother admits it’s possible her daughter did commit a crime.
“I’m not saying that she didn’t. I’m not saying she did, but she’s still a child.”
Výkřik do tmy: "Children of the future age, Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime. (...)" (William Blake - A Little Girl Lost)
"If convicted, the girl could have to register as a sex offender."
oh, yes. She definitely is one! Or she just might have forgotten that she actally lives in america and dared to play with a kid. But this will teach her a lesson! What a vile criminal she is! I think, that although the US already have the greatest number of prison inmates on planet, they should build plenty more jailhouses and fill them up with little kids who have played in naughty and indecent ways (e.g. all those doctor games which we used to play in childhood and early puberty unaware of the criminal charcter of our behaviour). And after the kiddies serve their, let´say twenty years, sentence, they will be all castrated and given a chip under skin so they can live as good and decent citizens of the first and biggest democracy in the worls and, of course, the great honorable exporter of democracy:-)))
Maybe i should never tell anyone about our "sex games" as a childs (10-13yo). Living in USA today, i would be child sex offender for sure. (and everybody else around me as well).
Výkřik do tmy: "Children of the future age, Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime. (...)" (William Blake - A Little Girl Lost)
I can understand having to charge the girl for a trial later.
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Well, you can understand charging a 10 year old child with criminal offence? I dont. I think it is unimaginable in any civilised country. Children are not legally accountable for their wrongdoings. Is it different in the US? That would sound very scary to me...
I can understand it because the establishment has to abide by its system.
They could've released her from jail to her parents though.
Just because I understand the system doesn't mean I agree with it.
So try not too look down on me or america.
After all, if it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German right now.
10 year olds should be running the world, and they will be in the not too distant future.
Your royal leaders that you love so much are ignorant and dangerous compared to their children.
Thanks for the Tabitha pictures, I will make use of them.
Is the film available anywhere on-line?:-)