Flight Opts pilot arrested

[OnTheFly]

The big picture.

The incident with this 16 year-old may be a totally different circumstance and this advise wouldn't help this situation, but I have found, from experiences within my family and with other families I am friends with, that child molestation occurs much more often than most people would like to believe. Also, I can attest that you would never be able to pick these predators out of a group as being sick in the head. These people go to church, have families, etc., etc., etc.

My point is this...If you have kids, talk to them about this freaky stuff when they are young. Nothing fancy, just discuss what inapproprate touching is and what they should do if someone attempts to do it to them.

 

[OnTheFly]

Right word?

http://wsbradio.com/news/0810airportrape.html

I've told my wife the details that have been reported so far and based on those (which is only a small part and subject to errors) and she believes the 'victim' is making this up (the rape, not the sex part). She worked in the Kentucky correctional system studying case files of sexual predators and victims during her PhD in Psych studies. She feels that comments like "no one says no to me" are to cliche. Plus the information about the phone number jsut doesn't fit either. I have no care for any kind of sexual criminal, especially after hearing the stories my wife would tell me from the files she saw; however, I think a women who uses rape as an excuse to cover her own indiscretions to save face is also horrible as they are ruining the life of a person with something that will follow them till the day they die.

If this girl is actually 16, I don't think the word "Woman" would apply to this situation. She is still a kid in my eyes. Even if it was her "indiscretion", he commited a crime by having sex with a minor. The argument may be made that she lied about her age. Though I don't buy that. I am 40, and anyone under 20 looks like a puppy to me. If he had any common sense, he could have used the phone # later and kept his member in check until he knew the facts. At the VERY least it was an incredible bone head mistake...no punn intended.

 

[OnTheFly]

Higher plane

A little off the subject but,talking about "cream of the crop" pilots at Options look at our new Higher Plane Award winner

Who got the higher plane award? I can't find where it is, if at all, on the pilot web site.

 

[VampyreGTX]

If this girl is actually 16, I don't think the word "Woman" would apply to this situation. She is still a kid in my eyes. Even if it was her "indiscretion", he commited a crime by having sex with a minor. The argument may be made that she lied about her age. Though I don't buy that. I am 40, and anyone under 20 looks like a puppy to me. If he had any common sense, he could have used the phone # later and kept his member in check until he knew the facts. At the VERY least it was an incredible bone head mistake...no punn intended.

I used woman in general. As for him committing a crime. He didn't. She is of legal age. Age if consent in GA is 16. Yes, she's a kid, by women, I was referring to females in general. His indiscretion in the eyes of the law was not sex with a minor as, by that laws in GA, she is not a minor (even though I think 16 is too young, 18 should be the min for age of consent in all states).

As for your previous comment, your right, it happens more than people know. The most interesting case of child abuse my wife reviewed in her research was one 60+ year old grandma who sodomized her grandson with a broom. That was one of the most disturbing case files my wife ever reviewed. I'm right there with her in thinking that sex offenders can never be rehabilited.

In this case however, by law, he's not a sex offender, no matter our own personal views.

 

[OnTheFly]

Wow!

I had no idea it was 16 in GA. That's probably stated already somewhere in all these posts, but I skipped through them pretty quick. I guess the questions now is whether it was uninvited sex. Maybe the medical exam of the girl will shed some light on the events.

 

[batsky2000]

This whole thing reminds me of a funny Seinfeld episode, Remember the episode were George was having sex with a maid a work on top of his desk, she turned him in and he had to see his boss the next day, while with his boss, he was questioned about having sex on his desk with the maid at work and George's responce was:

"Was that wrong, Was it wrong to have sex with her on my desk?" At which point his boss say's in a calm tone, "Your Fired"

With this guy, he will be in the office at Options with his boss and asked the same thing, his response:

" Was it wrong for me to have sex with that 16 year old at the airport in uniform?" "Was it wrong for me to say NO ONE SAYS NO TO ME, after she said no?" At which point his boss says "Your Fired"

This might have made for a good episode

 

[Doug Parker]

I think the age of consent is 14 in Kentucky...............


But then most girls are already married to their brothers by then !!!

 

[El Chupacabra]

Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Clayton Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney John Turner opposed bond of any amount. "He has no community ties and, as a pilot, is quite literally a flight risk," Turner said.
Even if rape is not proven, Turner said that by ... own admissions, he committed several other crimes, including fornication, enticing a child for indecent purposes, public indecency and sexual battery.

"He won't walk away scot-free," Turner said

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[Ultra Grump]

Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Clayton Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney John Turner opposed bond of any amount. "He has no community ties and, as a pilot, is quite literally a flight risk," Turner said.
Even if rape is not proven, Turner said that by ... own admissions, he committed several other crimes, including fornication, enticing a child for indecent purposes, public indecency and sexual battery.

"He won't walk away scot-free," Turner said

​

I wouldn't expect the prosecutor to spin it any differently.

 

[Ultra Grump]

El Chup, you also conveniently left out the rest of the story...

[font=arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif][size=-1]A Florida corporate pilot remains in the Clayton County Jail on $200,000 bond on charges that he [/size][/font][font=arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif][size=-1][/size][/font][font=arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif][size=-1]twice[/size][/font][font=arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif][size=-1][/size][/font][font=arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif][size=-1] raped a teenager Aug. 2 at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. [/size][/font] [font=arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif][size=-1] Michael D. Matthews, 39, of Daytona Beach is charged with rape and sexual battery. His attorney, Lee Sexton, said there is no way his client can post the bond. Matthews would have to put up $30,000 to get out of jail, he said. [/size][/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif][size=-1] "This is an incredibly large bond on the weakest evidence in the weakest rape case I have ever seen," Sexton said. [/size][/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif][size=-1] Sexton said Matthews admits to having sex under a stairwell in Concourse C. Matthews says it was consensual, but the 16-year-old girl told police she was raped. Sexton said it is because she is embarrassed. [/size][/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif][size=-1] "After the second episode, they exchanged cellphone numbers," [/size][/font][font=arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif][size=-1]Sexton said. "She made no outcry to any human being. There is no evidence of rape. And people were passing by while it was going on, telling them to 'get a room.'....

He managed to rape her twice while people were passing by? And then exchanged cellphone numbers. Still doesn't add up to me.
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