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Religion Church Camping Trip Chaperone Watch
Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:15 AM
A man accused of groping teenage girls when he chaperoned a church camping trip appeared in court Friday.... Elijah Curtis Murphy, 28, of St. Paul is charged with one count of second-degree criminal sexual contact with girls under 16 while in a position of authority. The charge has a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison and a $35,000 fine. Police say Murphy approached two girls, ages 13 and 14, from behind and grabbed their breasts during the week of June 12, 2006. He was later hiking behind a third girl, 15, pretended to slip on the trail and cupped a hand over her breasts. Police asked Murphy why he thought he was being questioned, and Murphy immediately said it was because of the camping trip. He admitted the feigned trail slip, saying he didn’t “intentionally do anything wrong.”
Murphy feigned the slip but didn't intentionally do anything wrong—so the fall was intentional but the cupping of breasts, Murphy's fifth and sixth that week, was a happy accident, a coincidence, a small miracle. God had a plan for Murphy's hands and who are the St. Paul police to question God's divine will?
8
I doubt these girls will be scarred for life. This person should just be fined $1000 dollars and teabagged repeatedly by three large Samoans for a couple of hours.
9
On the one hand, it does sound a little severe for the infraction he admitted to, however, as a parent of an 8 year old girl, if someone I entrusted her care to violated her personal space like that, I'd want him punished, though I'm not sure I'd want him to get 25 years. I'd rather kick him in the testicles repeatedly so hard that they wedged so far into his pelvis that they never descended again. Perverts like him should not breed.
I think I'm more inclined to agree with 8, though make the fine $10,000 to really get the point across.
I think I'm more inclined to agree with 8, though make the fine $10,000 to really get the point across.
10
The dude is a loose cannon... fifty bucks we will see his name again in the news for something worse.
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