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Thursday, July 24, 2008

O They Will Know We Are Christians…

posted by on July 24 at 9:29 AM

…by the teenage girls we encourage to run away from home, get drunk, and rape.

The principal of a private school in Arlington has been charged with third-degree rape of a child.

Mark Evan Brown, 37, principal of Highland Christian School, was arraigned Wednesday…. According to charging papers, the story begins with Brown and a 14-year-old female student at the school exchanging hundreds of text messages and phone calls over the past three months. In some of those messages, Brown encouraged the girl to run away from home and promised to find her a place to stay if she did, according to charging papers.

On June 12, the girl took Brown up on his offer, prosecutors say. Brown prepared a little-used room at the school by putting a hide-a-bed and television in the room for her, prosecutors say. He arranged for somebody else to pick her up and bring her to the school, according to charging papers.

The next evening, Brown gave the girl rum and the two lay down together on the foldout bed, according to charging papers. Sexual contact followed, prosecutors say.


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1

How much you wanna bet he was a youth pastor in his younger days?

Posted by Levislade | July 24, 2008 9:53 AM
2

I think you meant to "be raped".... not to "rape".

Posted by sepiolida | July 24, 2008 9:57 AM
3

It's the "we" who are doing the raping. As in "O They Will Know We Are Christians by the teenage girls we ... rape."

Posted by Luke | July 24, 2008 10:09 AM
4

@2 and @3, the problem is the ambiguity of "get drunk"--could be transitive or intransitive--compounding the ambiguity of whether "encourage to" is part of the first list item or precedes and applies to the entire list.

In other words, either:

the teenage girls we encourage to:
(run away from home),
(get drunk), and
([get] rape[d])
or
the teenage girls we:
(encourage to run away from home),
(get drunk), and
(rape)

The ambiguity is resolved by the last item "and rape," since it is only grammatical one way.

Posted by lostboy | July 24, 2008 10:22 AM
5

"The next evening, Brown gave the girl rum and the two lay down together on the foldout bed, according to charging papers. Sexual contact followed, prosecutors say."

You have to admit it does give the whole thing a sort of romantic feel to the story. I think whoever wrote this should try their hand at writing a Romantic Molestation Series, I wonder if Barns And Nobel will carry it or if I it will be easier to find on Amazon.

Posted by Christian Romance Novelist | July 24, 2008 10:33 AM
6

That's right....give her some rum to loosen her up.

What a fucknozzle.

Posted by Tlazolteotl | July 24, 2008 10:36 AM
7

Oh Chris Hansen, where art thou?

Washington could use a little Perverted Justice.

Posted by Julie Russell | July 24, 2008 4:13 PM
8

The more I see stuff like this, the more I wanna quit my job and stay home and homeschool.

Posted by Charm | July 25, 2008 8:45 AM
9

how come you didnt mention anything about his side of the story? how come you didnt mention the part where she didnt say anything about him touching her until she went to her attorney?

Posted by someone.without.hope | July 27, 2008 9:38 PM
10

how come you didnt mention anything about his side of the story? how come you didnt mention the part where she didnt say anything about him touching her until she went to her attorney?

Posted by someone.without.hope | July 27, 2008 9:38 PM
11

how come you didnt mention anything about his side of the story? how come you didnt mention the part where she didnt say anything about him touching her until she went to her attorney?

Posted by someone.without.hope | July 27, 2008 9:38 PM
12

@9, 10, and 11 - Umm, he sent her texts, emails, had phone calls with her, encouraged her to run away, "set her up" in a small room in the school, and got her drunk and laid on a bed with her. What do you think he did all that for? Guidance counselling?

She's 14, he doesn't get a side.

And like all sexually abused children, she probably didn't mention the touching because she was scared. Speaking as one who was abused, I never did tell my mother everything he did to me. Her reaction to what I did tell her was bad enough.

Posted by Charm | July 28, 2008 10:34 AM

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