Interesting story. Considering his previous encounter with a 12-year-old (all this happened when Mr. Yarnell was 16), there must be compelling evidence that he, in fact, is innocent.
Not guilty on 3 counts of rape.
MILLERSBURG -- A jury Wednesday found a Kentucky man not guilty of charges that alleged he raped a 10-year-old girl.
John Yarnell, 29, 438 Grayson Lake Drive, Lexington, was found not guilty of three counts of rape at the close of a three-day jury trial in Holmes County Common Pleas Court. The charges alleged he had sex with a girl in 1996 and 1997 while she was living in Holmes County when she was between the ages of 10 and 11.
The verdict came the same day Yarnell took the witness stand and denied the alleged victim's accusations that he had sex with her. He further said that statements in two recorded phone calls from May 2008 that Holmes County Prosecuting Attorney Steve Knowling claimed were admissions of guilt were an attempt to get the girl to vocalize the accusations so he could show they were different from those made in 2000 by the same girl.
When the calls were made, Yarnell said he expected them to be recorded, and if he could get the alleged victim to talk, she would change her story from 2000. He said investigator's notes from the 2000 investigation would show two different stories and played along to that end, stating on the recordings he never "did anything to her she didn't want" and saying she "gave" her virginity to him.
"I wanted to find out why she accused me in 2000, I wanted to hear it from her mouth," Yarnell said. "The reason I made that comment was to open the door... My whole reason was to prove she changed her story."
The notes from 2000 were lost prior to the 2008 investigation.
Yarnell further testified he deliberately avoided the alleged victim in 1996 and 1997 because he was aware of her troubled past. The girl was adopted at age 10 by a Holmes County family, having been placed in an orphanage at age 5. Evidence presented at trial indicated the girl was taken from her family at age 5 because she was being sexually abused.
Under cross examination by Knowling, Yarnell said he called the alleged victim's adopted mother a liar in one of the two recorded phone calls because he didn't want her to know he and the mother had been in contact for the first time in several years. Yarnell said he lost touch with the mother because of the alleged victim's attempts to "put a wedge" between them using lies.
The adopted mother and her husband both testified Tuesday that Yarnell and the girl were never left alone together, contrary to the alleged victim's claims.
Yarnell repeatedly answered "no" to Knowling's questions accusing him of sex with the girl and asserted he felt he did not have to prove his innocence past his statements in the two phone calls.
Knowling also cross examined Yarnell about his 2000 conviction for corruption of a minor, in which he was charged with having sex with a 12-year-old girl.
"I believe everyone makes a mistake, and that was the one I made," Yarnell said.
Yarnell's attorney, Andrew Hyde, used Yarnell's and the mother's testimony to portray the alleged victim as a child that used lies to get affection or her way. Yarnell testified that the alleged victim lied and made threats so frequently he could not leave the girl alone with his friends.
"She tried to get my friends to hate me (and said) things she had completely made up, things that were false," Yarnell said. "She was trying to ruin my life."
Link: http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/article/4660443
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"Evidence presented at trial indicated the girl was taken from her family at age 5 because she was being sexually abused."
There's the setup.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2009/10/12/tears-as-stockton-man-cleared-of-rape-84229-24908930/
AfOR
She's been lying since she was five. She will continue lying when she's 105. Monsters like her start young and are never stopped.
Afor,
Thanks for the link. It's set to run.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_percap-crime-rapes-per-capita
Now, I've liked in some of these countries, Zambia, yeah, sure, not all rapes reported, sure, yada yada, but Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, ITALY for fucks sake, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland....These places are ALL less than 0.05 per 1,000 pop
Uk is 0.142, USA is 0.30.
Now, I ain't been to the good ole USA, but I seriously doubt yer average woman is twice as likely to get raped there as here... shot mebbe, mugged mebbe, car jacked in miama mebbe, raped.. nope.
But, like I say, I have been in these other countries, and I can tell you for a fact, yer average woman is MORE AT RISK in all of them, VASTLY more so if yer average woman happens to be blonde etc.
MORE AT RISK, not, as the statistics claim, THREE TIMES LESS LIKELY.
AfOR
eg, OUR staistics are pure bullshit...
90% of these "reported rapes per 1,000 population" are complete bullshit
AfOR
Is the media out to get this guy murdered, or what? They gave him address right in the first sentence, Jesus.
Here is a statistical fact that should chill your blood: convicted sex offenders have a recidivism rate more than one third lower than that of other felons. (This cannot be explained by a low rate of rape reporting, since convicted sex offenders, if they return to prison, are re-convicted of crimes other than rape the vast majority of the time.)
A one-third lower recidivism rate is exactly what you would expect if ONE THIRD OF MEN CONVICTED OF RAPE ARE INNOCENT.
As previously mentioned, other countries convict men of rape at a rate that is a tiny fraction of the rate in the US -- for example, in Japan the rape conviction rate is a mere one twentieth that of the United States.
It is extremely unlikely that American women are twenty times more likely to be raped than are Japanese women.
sometimes I think this is useless
AfOR- that story sounds so similar to my husbands. sheesh these prostitutes are evil!!! Even if you don't go through with it and you don't pay, you pay for it with 40 to life!
CBGirl
A very learned anonymous said
"As previously mentioned, other countries convict men of rape at a rate that is a tiny fraction of the rate in the US -- for example, in Japan the rape conviction rate is a mere one twentieth that of the United States.
It is extremely unlikely that American women are twenty times more likely to be raped than are Japanese women."
Oct 12, 2009 7:12:00 PM
Scott says "That is very interesting"
It would be interesting to see how far back the walloping number of American women being raped compared to other countries goes.
Unfortunately, stats on that topic only go back fairly recently.
JUST TESTING OUT A THEORY HERE.
TESTING ONE. TWO. THREE. TESTING.
False rape accusations against black men between 1860's and 1960's were usually remedied with lynchings. Not just in the South, either.
White men tacitly encouraged it as protectors and as a not so subtle way of keeping the n*&^%$# down.
Lena Horne sang the song 'Strange Fruit' referencing the lynchings of black men. It wasn't a rare occurrence. ( I'd be a smart ass to suggest only 2% of lynchings were actually false accusations....)
With the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's lynching went out of favor along with singling out black men accused as rapists. That was 'racism' and feminism does not condone racism.
Unfortunately, the power thrill of making False accusations didn't go out of favor with segregation.
It just became 'color blind'. Instead of white men protecting the women folk, 'feminists' took over that protector role - again encouraging false accusations as a mean of power and control.
Is this a 'rape culture' or a 'false rape culture'?
American women have a definable history and legacy of false rape accusation.
There was no punishment for it then, there is no punishment for it now.
SgtMom,
You bring up a good point. The prevalence of false accusations has been around for a long time. And funny enough, it has, and is, predominately used by white women.
It's interesting, that today, one of the most pampered segment of society, are the most frequent abusers of false accusations. It all comes back to Kanin's study, and the reasons. I think spoiled should have been a category.
If you want to know who the real victims of society are just look at who is in prison. It ain't white women!
Anonymous said...
Is the media out to get this guy murdered, or what? They gave him address right in the first sentence, Jesus.
If he is ,or were to be murdered, it wouldn't matter to most people. After all, he is a male. It has been clear for who knows how long, that men do not matter in society. The gender feminists made sure of this.The blood of hundreds,thousands perhaps, millions of men and boys are on their hands
gave his address and its amazing they are allowed to do this cause he was in jail and his wife and kids still lived at that address.
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