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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlabama Banned Abortions. Then Its Lawmakers Remembered Rapists Can Get Parental Rights.
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Each year, between 7,750 and 12,500 children are conceived from rape nationwide, according to Justice Department estimates, which are likely low because many attacks are not reported. Family custody lawyers say rapists sometimes push for parental rights to try to dissuade mothers from pressing for criminal charges, or after being asked to pay child support. Most states have laws on the books to allow courts to terminate or restrict rapists parental rights under certain conditions. Alabama, where Stallings still lives, has long been an outlier: Its one of just two states (along with Minnesota) that has never passed such a law.
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Alabama Banned Abortions. Then Its Lawmakers Remembered Rapists Can Get Parental Rights. (Original Post)
Lady Freedom Returns
Jun 2019
OP
Only way to get conservatives to see they messed up is though their wallet.
Lady Freedom Returns
Jun 2019
#7
Thinking an extra large new BF with jealousy & temper issues might be in order?
Brainfodder
Jun 2019
#5
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)1. I'm going to be fuckin' sick...
A few months after Jessica Stallings 13th birthday, her uncle raped her for the first time. He was 20 years old, and he lived with Stallings and her mother in their Alabama home. He kept raping her, she claimed in court documents, and by the time she was 19, she had three children from the encounters. They married briefly when she was 20, and she filed for divorce a few months later.
Today Stallings is in her early 30s, but she hasnt been able to fully escape her rough childhood: After their divorce, a court granted him visitation rights so he could regularly see the kidsforcing her to repeatedly face the man she says tormented her....
...Stallings uncle was never convicted of rape or incest, even though she says she was 15 and he was 22 when she first got pregnant with his child. It went to grand jury twice, and both times they said there was not enough evidence to convict him, even though we had DNA and court documents and birth certificates and medical records, she told me. I had every piece of the puzzle I could possibly have, and they kept kicking it out. Her uncles attorney declined to speak with Mother Jones about the case, citing attorney-client privilege.
For now, she says, her uncle is legally allowed to see her children every weekend. For a few years she refused to let him, but a court threatened to jail her if she didnt comply.
Today Stallings is in her early 30s, but she hasnt been able to fully escape her rough childhood: After their divorce, a court granted him visitation rights so he could regularly see the kidsforcing her to repeatedly face the man she says tormented her....
...Stallings uncle was never convicted of rape or incest, even though she says she was 15 and he was 22 when she first got pregnant with his child. It went to grand jury twice, and both times they said there was not enough evidence to convict him, even though we had DNA and court documents and birth certificates and medical records, she told me. I had every piece of the puzzle I could possibly have, and they kept kicking it out. Her uncles attorney declined to speak with Mother Jones about the case, citing attorney-client privilege.
For now, she says, her uncle is legally allowed to see her children every weekend. For a few years she refused to let him, but a court threatened to jail her if she didnt comply.
What was her mother doing while this was going on under her roof?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)8. Even if her mom was an absentee drug addict
what jury on EARTH doesn't see a crime here??
There is LIVING, BREATHING PROOF that this yokel had intercourse with a 13-year-old blood relative! What the hell else do they need??
lark
(23,156 posts)2. Alabama truly hates and detests and wants to cause harm to every uppity woman.
We used to drive from Jax. to NO for the Jazz Fest on a yearly basis. For the last 3 years, we fly. We do not want to have to spend money in AL, or MS so just bypass those awful places.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)7. Only way to get conservatives to see they messed up is though their wallet.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)3. The republican
jerks who are continuing to do this to women will seal their own fate. We will rise.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)5. Thinking an extra large new BF with jealousy & temper issues might be in order?
n/t