A)If the children weren’t poor Black kids being helped by Greenville’s own Tarzan their would not be the assumption that they are liars and con artists. Tell me exactly how there is a payoff for reporting this.

When Kathy Isbell lied about being raped and was caught, many of the same commenter above claimed she was coerced into that and that she may have been telling the truth. The difference? Isbell is a White hipster d-bag. The neo-colonial context is evident. As a (half) Black person myself I’m offended that you people automatically assume the children are lying.

B)You say “i never claimed to have answers, i just offered my scenario.” Which sounds a lot like people who claim Jewish spies destroyed the World Trade Center then when confronted they say “I’m just asking questions”

You’re attacking the children as “conniving” etc which is hateful, spiteful and as to my point above kind of racist. Lots of White kids have accused people in the news of molestation, I’ve yet to see you and your Klan members in the comments of those stories going on about how perfidious children are.

As an aside I’m not desperate for answers. i have simply offered to Caples groupies the opportunity to go on the record here and fully explain themselves. None, yourself included, have taken me up on the offer.

C)Disabling comments is childish, but so is assuming that because I allow comments I want you to bad mouth rape victims anonymously. Also a little childish – assuming that because I let people leave comments I somehow want them to do so. Everyone is free to comment here, but no one is free from being criticized for asinine comments they make.

You’ll also notice many of your scumbag compatriots didn’t so much comment here as leave threats about how they were either going to sue me or file false police reports about me. Good company Caples keeps.

D) I don’t think you know what a scaremonger is. By putting a positive spin on crime you’re helping create victims. You know what you can learn on Greenville Dragnet? Don’t work the night shift on White Horse rd. Would it be better if no one told people how dangerous White Horse Rd is at night? Would you prefer i put a positive spin on the shootings at La Roka?

Burying your head in the sand feels great, until you’re victimized. Crime happens and the way to avoid having it happen to you is to be aware of it and prepared for it.

i also don’t remember calling anyone a name (unless you are offended by the term “cretin”, in which case you probably shouldn’t be using it, either).

i never claimed to have answers, i just offered my scenario. we forget that children can be conniving and cruel without understanding the consequences of their actions. today’s television and media don’t help that situation, either. i highly doubt anyone besides mr. caples and the children and other adults involved will be able to provide you with those answers you desperately seek. as for my brother and i, all is forgiven and we joke about those incidents now…

i’m not sure what you want to hear from us, as we are *all* outsiders in this situation and are trying to make sense of it in our heads as well. i hope that if you didn’t want a lively discussion with varying opinions and ideals, you would disable the comments section.

i do appreciate the service you are attempting to provide the citizens of greenville, but i’m not sure it’s having the desired effect. i assume you want to provide a more comprehensive crime coverage than the local media is able to (what with their time constraints and all), but it appears that you are just a scaremonger. why not help put each crime in perspective (i.e. there was 1 pursesnatching today, in 2009 there were only three pursesnatchings county-wide) so as to not scare off potential citizens. by only reporting the negative, you are doing almost the same as the local media.

slainte!

But if I’m to understand you you’re claiming that it’s natural to assume that the children are simply lying. It is, as I have said, extremely rare for children to make up false reports about rape. I will also again say that if these were little White kids there would not be the rush to claim they were lying to get money from some dude.

Also claiming that you saying your brother hit you is the same as an adult molesting children is the vilest kind of moral relativism.

As I also said before I worked in the same industry which makes me privy to several facts. The first is that people who work with kids are court mandated reporters, meaning that in many state Caples would have been legally required to report the mother abandoning her kids. Even f it was different in SC he knows that this is a situation where CPS needed to be involved.

The second is that men need to be careful about their interactions with children, not because children falsely report things but because a)the industry attracts pedophiles (having hired staff summer camp I can assure you that at least 5% of applicants turned away were turned away for being perverts) and the parents of at risk youth are often drug addicts and as you well know they will sell their children to get a fix.

The third is that children need privacy when cleaning/toileting themselves. At places I worked adults were required to stand outside bathrooms visible to other adults when children were in bathrooms. I find it odd that a “professional” would not have the same policy in his home with two children that some weirdo gave him to care for.

I bathed alone since I was five or six, which is appropriate. Adults can stand by the door and ensure everything is OK. All of Caples behavior is suspicious.

Why would he not have called authorities when these children were abandoned for a few months?

Why would he risk his professional reputation at all?

Why would he need to bath both children? Why would he think it was acceptable for him to bath two children he was unrelated to?

Again a Caples groupie with no real answers, just some name calling and a racist attack on two Black victims of crime. Typical.

By the way, crime blogs aren’t supposed to make you feel safe. They’re supposed to make you aware of criminality and prepare you to not be a victim.

oh, and i pulled this from your “about” section…
“Greenville Dragnet is dedicated to covering crime news in Greenville County, South Carolina. The lackluster coverage of crime by much of the local media often serves to make it harder for Greenville residents, especially the many newcomers to the area, to put the crime stories in a perspective that allows them to live safer and happier lives. Greenville Dragnet seeks to rectify that by providing straightforward and reliable coverage and analysis of crime in Greenville County.”
not sure that last sentence is entirely true. or the bit about perspective. i can honestly say, as a (new-ish) greenville resident, that my life isn’t happier after reading your posts, nor do i feel safer… just a little nervous for everyone out there who would dare to oppose a cretin such as yourself (did i use that ‘cretin’ word correctly?)