Easley Residents Shocked to Discover Gay Cruising in Public Restrooms
Which I assume means Easley residents rarely use public restrooms. To be fair though this story is more about the Internet making “cruising” easier for those who enjoy anonymous mutual masturbation sessions (at best) in public places. Now gay cruising is less of a, shall we say, slap dash affair.
Via Trench Reynolds’ CraigsCrimeList we find 46-year-old James Michael Stewart (pictured above) who used the Internet crime facilitation network Craigslist to advertise for anonymous people to meet him in the Easley public library branch (the Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library) bathroom for an anonymous rendezvous .
A library patron, who happened to be perusing the section of Craigslist where men seek anonymous gay sex, alerted the library director to Stewart’s ad. The patron apparently had already made contact with Stewart and arranged for the restroom Romeo to show up before telling director Allison Anderson.
Sounds like Stewart has an angry ex.
Long story short, police send a detective for a sting and while shoring up the investigation find that Stewart was one of five people looking for a little bathroom bawdiness that day and using Craigslist to do it. Five. In one day.
If you’re from the big city like me that number seems low but the Easley police are shocked to discover that men’s room floors are sticky for a reason. Call me jaded but I’m really not shocked by this. I’d be more shocked if you could find a men’s room in a library where there weren’t guys rubbing one out.
WSPA says Stewart is being held on $1500 bond and police are being very careful to say no children were involved in this incident but parents should stay with their kids at all times. Because suddenly it’s not safe to let your kids wander around by themselves in libraries full of homeless people, people who don’t want to have their Internet activity traced back to their house and the other assorted dregs who have nothing better to do with their time but lurk in a public building.
Libraries aren’t safe places for children to be alone, and sex in the bathroom is just the tip of the iceberg as to why. The blog Safe Libraries should be required reading for every parent.
h/t Trench
Michael Lee Cutter Gets 14 Years for Being a Filthy Pervert
The Greer resident will get 14 years followed by 10 years of supervised release and will of course be a registered sex offender. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy:
Court documents show that an undercover detective posing as an 11-year-old girl encountered Cutter in an online chat room on May 18, 2009, Tompkins said in a press release Friday.
During the course of the online conversation, Cutter proposed that the “girl” engage in sexual acts with him in a hotel room he had rented, the press release said. He left a “do not disturb” sign on his hotel room door traveled to the Blue Ridge Mall to try and pick up the girl, Tompkins said in the release.
At a music store inside the mall, Cutter was arrested by Henderson County sheriff’s detectives, according to testimony offered at court hearings.
Cutter was 27 at the time. Think about that for a second. He was a 27-year-old man renting a motel room to have sex with an 11-year-old girl.
I haven’t found a picture of him yet but when I do I’ll post it.
Sam Young Gets a Measly 25 Years For Murdering Dymia Woody
He got off light if you ask me. Life without parole is what he deserves.
From WSPA:
Greenville County, SC –
Sam Young, 16, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and criminal sexual conduct Wednesday morning in a Greenville courtroom.
The judge accepted a recommendation of 25 years in prison during the sentencing phase of the hearing.
The judge called it “a tragic case.”
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Nearly 40 members of Dymia Woody’s family were present. A News Channel 7 reporter spoke to some family members. They said they were displeased with the length of the sentence for Young and felt it should be longer.
The family is right. I wonder how long Young would have got if Dymia was White.
WYFF in typical hug-a-thug fashion, manages to place the blame for this crime on porn, with the help of a hack child psychologist. Note to the delicate flowers at WYFF – ALL teens look at porn, very few rape children to death afterward. The two are not related. Let’s not disrespect the dead by minimizing the evil of a murderer.
Awful: Simpsonville Teen Raped 15-Year-Old … When he was 13!
Another reason you should probably be homeschooling. What’s going on in our society when 13-year-olds are already brutal rapists? We blogged about this before, but now an arrest has been made and the case is just shocking.
From Fox Carolina:
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A Simpsonville teen was arrested on Wednesday after a 15-year-old girl said he raped her last month.
Greenville County deputies said that the sexual assault was reported on April 1 to Simpsonville police, when the suspect, who will not be identified because of his age, was 13 years old.
Deputies said that during the initial investigation by police, it was discovered that the suspect was the son of a Simpsonville city employee. They said the case was then turned over to the Sheriff’s Office to avoid a conflict of interest.
Investigators from the county’s sex crimes unit said that the suspect, now 14 years old, forced himself on the girl and had non-consensual sex with her. They said that the pair were acquaintances.
I hope that city employee is also under investigation. Normal, decent people don’t raise rapists.
Sam Young Appearing in Court for the Dymia Woody Murder Tommorow
Dymia Woody was a innocent little girl stolen from her family too soon. In the summer of 2008 the little girl was found murdered, stuffed into the closet of an abandoned mobile home just yards from her house. She had been raped and strangled and DNA testing led police to then 14-year-old Sam Young.
Young has been moved out of family court and will be tried as an adult now. The Woody family is finally going to get some closure. From Fox Carolina:
GREENVILLE, S.C. — The teen charged in connection with the slaying of a Greenville County girl nearly two years ago is expected to be in court on Wednesday.
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In August 2009, a judge ruled that jurisdiction for the now 16-year-old Young be transferred to general sessions court instead of family court.
Prosecutors said that the ruling means that Young will be tried as an adult rather than a juvenile, which he had been charged as until Friday.
Marcia Barker, from the 13th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, said that Young will be in court to plead, but did not say to what he will plead.
We’ll keep you posted. keep the Woody family in your prayers.