Sex and 11 y.o. motherhood

A set of sad news have shaken the moral foundations of a Cleveland community. But were there any to begin with?!?

Shortly after Thanksgiving, dozens of men ranging in age from middle-schoolers to a 27-year-old gang-raped an 11-year-old girl in an abandoned trailer.

Here’s a composite of the mugshots of the main suspects:

The age of consent in Texas is 17. More details from NYT:

The affidavit said the assault started after a 19-year-old boy invited the victim to ride around in his car. He took her to a house on Travis Street where one of the other men charged, also 19, lived. There the girl was ordered to disrobe and was sexually assaulted by several boys in the bedroom and bathroom. She was told she would be beaten if she did not comply, the affidavit said.

A relative of one of the suspects arrived, and the group fled through a back window. They then went to the abandoned mobile home, where the assaults continued. Some of those present recorded the sexual acts on their telephones, and these later were shown among students.

Residents in the neighborhood where the abandoned trailer stands — known as the Quarters — said the victim had been visiting various friends there for months. They said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s. She would hang out with teenage boys at a playground, some said.

“Where was her mother? What was her mother thinking?” said Ms. Harrison, one of a handful of neighbors who would speak on the record. “How can you have an 11-year-old child missing down in the Quarters?”

Sadly, many in the community, especially the parents of those arrested, started accusing the girl in a townhall meeting. Since then, there were even more arrests.

And that’s America [Fuck Yeah], ladies and gentlemen. Yet Europe is not far behind, except that in Europe such rapes are called “marriage”. More precisely in Romania – Investi, a gypsy wife has become the world’s youngest grandmother at the ripe age of 23.

Rifca Stanescu gave birth to daughter Maria when she was only 12. Maria topped that performance, giving birth to son Ion at age of 11. You can see both in the photo above.

'Ion is a good boy - and he is already engaged to a girl aged 8. Boys are always good to have - they don't have to suffer as much girls I think.'

Born in 1985, Rifca defied her family's wishes and ran away with jewellery seller Ionel Stanescu when she was 11 and he was 13.

A year after they were married, Rifca fell pregnant with Maria.

She said: 'I wanted to marry him, so I agreed, and of course after we had spent the night together then there was no way anyone could separate us. I had been promised to another boy's family since I was two years old but I didn't want that.'

In gypsy culture virginity is greatly prized and women are married young so that new husband's can be sure their new wives are virgins who affect a good dowry from the families of prospective husbands. Loss of virginity means a deal is cancelled.

Yet this is not something that happens only with gypsies – though there it is very common as well. UK is no stranger to such young grandmothers, according to the Daily Mail:

The youngest British grandmother was an unnamed 26-year-old from Rotherham, Yorkshire whose 12-year-old daughter gave birth in 1999.

We know that those convicted of pedophilia are more likely to suffer abuse in prison. Apparently, this is quite common in private prisons such as the Boise, Idaho “Gladiator School” run by Corrections Corporation of America. Even children themselves are not immune from child pornography accusations, as proven by the case of a 13 and 14 year old from Grand Prairie, Alberta.

Sources / More info: nyt-11, cbs-11, mw-11, dm-gypsy, cn-teens

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