how messed up is the world today!!

jon1981 · 09-05-2008 12:35pm #1

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1315509,00.html

:mad:

_blank_ · 09-05-2008 12:37pm

Shauntel?

ffs.

biko · 09-05-2008 12:40pm

Young Children Forced To Stage Sex Show

Updated:11:19, Friday May 09, 2008
A woman has been jailed for life for forcing young children to have sex with each other in front of customers at a swinger's club.

Siblings were forced to have sex
The jury took just four minutes to convict Shauntel Mayo, who ran the club in East Texas, of forcing children to have sex or perform sexual acts for members who paid to watch.

The children were three siblings, aged between seven and 10.

During the trial, the children testified how Mayo and other defendants began teaching them at the age of five how to dance and perform sex acts.

They were also given drugs, which the adults called "silly pills", to help them perform.

District Judge Jack Skeen Jr ordered Mayo to serve a minimum of 25 years before becoming eligible for parole.

In March, Mayo's 36-year-old boyfriend, Jamie Pittman, was also found guilty in four minutes.

He was sentenced to life in prison after jurors deliberated for just two minutes.

Mayo was convicted of engaging in organised criminal activity and two counts of sexual performance of a child.

Four other defendants in the case are awaiting trial.

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Wazdakka · 09-05-2008 12:40pm

At least as messed up as it was yesterday...
And proably a little less than it will be tomorrow.

Karoma · 09-05-2008 12:42pm

DesF wrote: »

Shauntel?

ffs.

Good man. Focus on the core issues.

Naos · 09-05-2008 12:43pm

So the woman gets 25 years and the man gets life, why's that?

_blank_ · 09-05-2008 12:44pm

Naos wrote: »

So the woman gets 25 years and the man gets life, why's that?

Disproportion in the Justice System.

It happens in Ireland too.

jon1981 · 09-05-2008 12:44pm

lol i was wondering how many post would pass before someone brought that up

_blank_ · 09-05-2008 12:45pm

Karoma wrote: »

Good man. Focus on the core issues.

This isn't humanities, is it?

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 09-05-2008 12:46pm

Yup some double standards going on there.

Good to see they both got decent jail sentences though, if that happened here they'd probably get probation.

Naos · 09-05-2008 12:48pm

Obviously it goes without question that the crime was sick, but this disproportion is silly.

How do the courts, if at all, justfiy it?

jon1981 · 09-05-2008 12:52pm

Naos wrote: »

Obviously it goes without question that the crime was sick, but this disproportion is silly.

How do the courts, if at all, justfiy it?

does it go back to primal instincts and how men are the more powerful of the two sexes and therefore more accountable? maybe there is more to the story than what skynews says, he could have more convictions. the story says the women ran the club, whereas its possible he probably abused the kids

Mena · 09-05-2008 12:55pm

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

Yup some double standards going on there.

Good to see they both got decent jail sentences though, if that happened here they'd probably get probation.

25 years? Decent? Surely ye jest. At best executiuon at worst a real "life" sentence... as in until they die and rot.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 09-05-2008 1:03pm

A minimum of 25 years, and compared with our justice system that is one hell of a jail term.
Besides - hopefully they will be killed in jail anyway

seamus · 09-05-2008 1:07pm

jon1981 wrote: »

does it go back to primal instincts and how men are the more powerful of the two sexes and therefore more accountable?

Nope. It's a societal undertone which says that men who do horrendous acts are just evil, but women who do horrendous acts are mentally ill. It's probably something to do with the "mothering instinct", where if a woman does something horrible to her kids, she must have ben forced into it, because no mother could ever be horrible to her kids, whereas men are expected to be naturally horrible.

Thanks Feminism.

Sir Molle · 09-05-2008 1:08pm

Anyone know where I could get tickets to see that show?

jon1981 · 09-05-2008 1:09pm

seamus wrote: »

Nope. It's a societal undertone which says that men who do horrendous acts are just evil, but women who do horrendous acts are mentally ill. It's probably something to do with the "mothering instinct", where if a woman does something horrible to her kids, she must have ben forced into it, because no mother could ever be horrible to her kids, whereas men are expected to be naturally horrible.

Thanks Feminism.

wonder what sex the judge was

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 09-05-2008 1:10pm

seamus wrote: »

Thanks Feminism.

I blame the Ladies Lounge!

Kintarō Hattori · 09-05-2008 1:16pm

Naos wrote: »

So the woman gets 25 years and the man gets life, why's that?

Well according to the website she was sentanced to life but has to serve a minimum of 25 years. Also the website says that the man has to serve life but it doesn't give more information about him. It's possible that he might have to serve a minimum of 25 years too.

It really looks like people just want to complain for the sake of it and glossed over the fact that the very first sentance in the article mentioned that she was sentanced to life.

Caoimhín · 09-05-2008 1:18pm

jon1981 wrote: »

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1315509,00.html

:mad:

I hope both of them are violently and repeatedly raped in prison for 25 - life.

Sherifu · 09-05-2008 2:31pm

You have to blame sexy kids...

wes · 09-05-2008 3:07pm

The world has always been messed up.

We just have mass media now to tell us how messed up it is, with minutes of something f***ed up happening.

Guy:Incognito · 09-05-2008 5:36pm

Damn the world is messed up these days. Bring back the old days when children were sent to homes to be abused in private so no one got hurt.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 09-05-2008 6:46pm

Sherifu wrote: »

You have to blame sexy kids...

Riamfada · 09-05-2008 6:51pm

I think this calls for Blackadders knob grinding extremity lacerating disembowelling torture chair,

Pighead · 09-05-2008 6:56pm

Karoma wrote: »

Good man. Focus on the core issues.

He got ya DesF. He got ya good!

His words made me laugh and those words and therefore the laughter were directed towards you. Thats why Karoma got one of the important Mod jobs.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 09-05-2008 6:59pm

bloody democrats and their child labour laws.

Dudess · 09-05-2008 7:18pm

seamus wrote: »

Nope. It's a societal undertone which says that men who do horrendous acts are just evil, but women who do horrendous acts are mentally ill. It's probably something to do with the "mothering instinct", where if a woman does something horrible to her kids, she must have ben forced into it, because no mother could ever be horrible to her kids, whereas men are expected to be naturally horrible.

Thanks Feminism.

I don't know if I'd agree with your last line. Wouldn't such a societal undertone have existed long before the advent of feminism?
If anything, radical feminism sets out to dispel the notion of the woman as nurterer etc...

Riamfada · 09-05-2008 7:42pm

Dudess wrote: »

If anything, radical feminism sets out to dispel the notion of the woman as nurterer etc...

But men as a ...... ?

Dudess · 09-05-2008 7:50pm

Well it's more about women being equal to men, the same as men (apart from biology). I'm not saying I agree with it, and I'm sure there are plenty of hypocritical feminists who argue women should not be seen as solely maternal, nurturing beings more compassionate than males, but in a case like this, they'd gladly throw such principles out the window.

Lockstep · 09-05-2008 8:11pm

That story was sick sick stuff.

flanum · 09-05-2008 8:27pm

i wonder how long it went on before someone actually complained?:eek:

Sam Vimes · 09-05-2008 8:32pm

pics or gtfo

Overheal · 09-05-2008 8:32pm

During the trial, the children testified how Mayo and other defendants began teaching them at the age of five how to dance and perform sex acts.

sickened that she did it obviously, but where are the convictions for the paying customers?
Witch hunt tbh.

flanum · 09-05-2008 8:57pm

Overheal wrote: »

but where are the convictions for the paying customers?
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it was a swingers club, they might have been "invitees"!

Chinafoot · 09-05-2008 10:00pm

Overheal wrote: »

sickened that she did it obviously, but where are the convictions for the paying customers?
Witch hunt tbh.

Yeah obvious witch hunt. I mean why go after the people drugging, training and forcing the children to perform when you can go after the people who saw it.

Caoimhín · 09-05-2008 10:03pm

Chinafoot wrote: »

Yeah obvious witch hunt. I mean why go after the people drugging, training and forcing the children to perform when you can go after the people who saw it.

Go after both, without mercy.

kowloon · 09-05-2008 10:14pm

I'd say an investigation would reveal a bit more than a "swingers" club.

Overheal · 09-05-2008 10:24pm

Chinafoot wrote: »

Yeah obvious witch hunt. I mean why go after the people drugging, training and forcing the children to perform when you can go after the people who saw it.

supply meets demand and the supply is already caught. Find the demand.