Clinton, SC (TLS). The parents of the five teenagers who accused Bell Street Middle School teacher Allenna Williams Ward of engaging in sexual conduct with them all over town are planning a candlelight vigil in Clinton on Monday evening, March 26.
Vigil organizer Rosa Booker stated, 'These kids are going to school and getting their virginity taken away from them. These children need to know this is something that you don't keep quiet.'
Of course, Booker is right when it comes to sexual assault and inappropriate behavior on the part of teachers toward underage students. If such activity is taking place, it is imperative that the students in question report it.
The nation has seen a barrage of such activity in recent years as female teachers seem to have cast aside all ethical, moral, and professional restraints in going after teenage students. This activity is deplorable and should be condemned. The guilty should do jail time.
However, in the Allenna Williams Ward case, so far all we have are accusations and charges based upon those accusations. No proof has yet been produced that exposes any guilt on the part of Ward. She has not even had a trial. Yet a small but vocal group in Clinton is all but proclaiming her guilt and using the accusations as a springboard from which to conduct grandstanding activity in town, as if to convict Ward in the court of public opinion and create a sense on the part of the public that the accusations of the teenagers should not be questioned.
The practice is despicable and is on the same par as the deplorable actions on the part of the Durham community last Spring when three Duke lacrosse players were falsely accused of rape. Certain community leaders, including the administration and 88 faculty members of Duke, made accusatory statements to the press and conducted rallies in town denouncing the three innocent students.
The result was a charade, a three-ring-circus that perpetuated one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of American jurisprudence.
Is the same thing beginning to happen in Clinton?
One would hope that we as a society have learned something in the aftermath of the Duke rape hoax. But if the actions of certain citizens in Clinton are any indication, apparently we have not learned our lesson well enough.
Displays such as the candlelight vigil to be held on Monday should be reserved for after the trial in the event that Ward is found guilty.
Until such time, such displays only add to suspicions of a set-up.
Friday, March 23, 2007
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This is the most suspicious thing I have seen yet.
One of the reasons so few adult women have been prosecuted for having sex with teenage boys is that as a general rule, the boys don't talk. More often than not, the boys don't want the attention and don't want the case to go to trial. This is a big reason why the sentences are so lenient in these cases. The prosecutor is following the wishes of the victim to settle the case quickly.
The candlelight vigil is yet another odd turn in a case that is already odd. It is yet another thing that is completely contrary to the usual pattern in these cases.
To believe the charges against Ms. Ward, you would have to believe that a woman with with no reputation for promiscuity or history of mental illness or even marital problems would have sex with not one, but five teenage boys, making her a very prolific and very unusual female offender. Female offenders of usually have a young "boyfriend" who is the sole object of their affection. Serial female offenders are almost unheard of, especially for boys of this young age.
You would have to believe that a young woman from a prominent family would have sex with five boys for over a year in public places in a small southern town and nobody said anything or heard anything about it. Not even her husband or his family suspected a thing.
You would have to believe that a woman who had no problem having sex in public places would go to the trouble and expense of renting a hotel room where someone might notice her with the boy, someone who knew her might recognize her car in the parking lot, and anyone who found out would easily be able to track her back to the hotel.
You would also have to believe that the sexual encounter was so traumatic for these teenage boys that a candlelight vigil is necessary. You would also have to believe that this small woman intimidated these boys into silence.
You would have to believe that she text messaged them to keep silent, but was not charged with obstruction of justice. You would also have to believe that she was passing inappropriate notes to students that were inappropriate enough to get her fired, but not inappropriate enough to get her charged with solicitation of a minor.
You would also have to believe that the solicitor is hiding all his best, most conclusive evidence from the media.
No, I have not seen all the evidence against her, but this looks more and more like a hoax than a crime.
It makes me wonder how many of these crimes acutally occurred.
Your points are, to say the least, very well taken. Point by point, step by step, you have laid out the case for exactly why I am quickly drawing the ominous conclusion that this entire scenario is a hoax of draconian proportions...ominous because it shows, yet again, how easily innocent Americans can be charged with crimes they did not commit and presumed guilty long before a trial is ever held.
From the Duke rape hoax, to the Border Patrol scandal, and now to the Allenna Ward case, we are witnessing the unraveling right before our very eyes of the integrity of the criminal justice system in America. It causes one to think the entire thing is orchestrated and planned.
Remember, in the late 60s a group of radical university professors decided that America's system of free enterprise and personal liberty had to go. The way to bring this about is to bombard the system on several fronts--with demands for government freebies, for one, so much so that the entire system collapses under the weight. It is at that point that socialists/fascists/communist/totalitarians can easily rebuild society from the ground up to conform to their brave new world of complete centralized government control over every aspect of scoeity.
George Soros is exactly such an individual who could conceivably scheme to bring about such a collapse, not necessarily by creating a broad conspiracy, but by utilizing the unsuspecting who are caught up in a system that has become so burdened, overloaded, overwhelmed, and corrupt, that it buckles under the pressure of it all.
With things such as this happening concurrently on several different fronts, it truly makes one stop to wonder.
But, I agree. Allenna Williams Ward is the victim of a set-up. There is no other conclusion one could possibly reach when one considers the excellent points you raise.
Martyn
No, I don't see any conspiracy other than some teenage boys who want vindication, attention, and possibly revenge, parents who want money from a future lawsuit against the school, and a solicitor who wants publicity.
I have no doubt that you are correct about that, looking at the local picture exclusively.
But I see broader connections, not that Soros or anyone else solicited the help of the teens' parents in perpetrating a hoax, but within a context of several ominous threats to our sytem of justice occurring simultaneously, as an outgrowth of the behind the scenes maneurvering, including a change of assumptions, an elevation of political correctness above the truth, etc, etc.
In this way, the parents in Clinton and their sons are every bit as much a part of the breakdown of our system of justice as are the buffoons in Durham who perpetrated the rape hoax.
That the system is now in such a shoddy state that this type of thing can occur so easily, is testimony to the years of tilling the soil that went on behind the scenes in the years prior to these incidents.
In short, the subversives have corrupted the system so thoroughly that travesties of justice such as these can happen very easily and regularly.
Martyn
Why is it so hard to believe that a white female could have sex with 5 young black men. Why is it that because it involves a white female, that it is not even considered that she could do such a thing. I disagree with the candlelight vigil. I do know that even if the incident did take place, you have to look at the kids parents. How can your kid be gone to a hotel or out somewhere and you not know what is going on. The rule innocent until proven guilty has been tossed out the window for all crimes. It's more like guilty until proven perhaps guilty
Not at all. It is not that it is so difficult to believe a white woman could have sex with five black men or teenagers but that the story surrounding it simply isn't credible or believable.
The facts as they have been laid out thus far do not in any way implicate Allenna Williams Ward. Rather, the story itself implicates the teenagers. The actions of their families concerning this vigil further implicates their sons.
None of this fits with the typical, tested, tried and proven profile of female sexual predators.
I know they are there, and I know worse things than even this happen.
But I do NOT believe it about Allenna Williams Ward, and I don't even know the woman. As a detached impartial observer I simply do not believe that the story of the teenagers is believable.
Martyn
I believe that race has little to do with the case itself, but a lot to do with the public perception of the case.
I do not believe she is guilty for the reasons stated above. Nothing fits the usual pattern of female offender/male victim. Race has nothing to do with my analysis.
Second of all, what she has been accused of doing would leave a mountain of evidence all over town. It would also have been hard to keep anything like this quiet for over a year. Since no rumors had been circulating in the town prior to the arrest and no evidence of a crime has been presented to the public so far, I am very skeptical of the charges.
I agree with you.
The problem that often occurs is that public perception of a case can definitely affect its outcome.
Ward may need a change of venue before this is over, unless it can be assured she can get a fair trial in Clinton.
She won't get a fair trial in Clinton. The parents of the teenagers have seen to that. They've whipped up the community into a frenzy, sorta like a lynch mob thing, except the other way around.
houston.r.comI think she was plain and simply 'Nifonged.'
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