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Willful Ignorance is Chapter in "Prosecuting Sex Crimes Handbook"

The War Against Men has reached the schoolhouse:A Fairfax County jury needed only 47 minutes Thursday to find a popular schoolteacher not guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl in their school gym this year.Sean Lanigan, 43, smiled and tears flowed among his dozens of supporters in the courtroom as the verdicts were read clearing Lanigan of charges of aggravated sexual battery and abduction. The case against him hinged on the testimony of two sixth-grade girls at Centre Ridge Elementary School in Centreville, who said Lanigan had scooped up one of the girls in the middle of the school gym, carried her into an equipment room, laid her down on a mat and massaged her shoulders, groping her in the process.What is a "grope"?  Seriously.  Define it for me...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 27, 2010 (boomark / email).