South Park Monster (Part 3)

Carlos Coy has been painted in the media as a serial predator. Someone who has molested girl after girl after girl; the tagline for the article is "Fans saw Carlos Coy as the invincible rapper, the gangsta who could become an icon for outcast Hispanics everywhere. But they didn't know his weakness -- young girls did."

In this article Lomax uses the opinion of Judy Johnson, clinical director for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Sex Offender Treatment Program in Huntsville.  She works for TDCJ, of course. Here’s what she thinks:

In general, Coy's past reflects some similarities with profiles of pedophiles, she believes. Most grow up without a strong male figure in their lives;

You can't be convicted of being a pedophile, ‘child-lover’. Coy was accused of being a child molester. It’s a small distinction, but an important one. A pedophile will always be a pedophile; someone who wants to have sex with children. A child molester may be a pedophile, or may have simply lacked opportunity to have sex with grown women, or may have had sex with a child he believed to be an adult. But Judy wants Coy to sound like a pedophile, an incurable pervert, so she starts drawing correlations and making assumptions.

I assume she’s referring here to the fact that Carlos Coy’s father left the family for a period of about ten years. I don’t know why she assumes that there were no strong male figures in his life. He had family, teachers…But okay, no father means you’re a pedophile. You know who else shares the trait of losing a father early in life? Fucking rap stars. Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., 50 Cent, Sean Combs, Jay-Z.

“A year ago, the Pew Charitable Trust published a report that found that 2.7 million children in the U.S. now have an incarcerated parent.”

Since 93.2% of prisoners are male, most of those kids are growing up without a father. What does that mean for them? Is the government putting them at higher risk of being labeled pedophiles by incarcerating their dads for everything from murder to having a roach in the car? Talk about a self-sustaining system...guaranteeing government jobs generation after generation.

…they can "groom" associates to ignore the obvious signs of their perversion; and serial pedophiles often establish ways -- even dance studios for children -- to attract more potential victims, Johnson says.

"That's very common for pedophiles to create an avenue where they can have one victim right after another," she says. "It's unfortunate, but a lot of predators create their 'candy stores.’

Oh, my God. Someone call Justin Beiber and tell him that he’s doing it wrong. Apparently the way to attract young girls is to produce raw, obscenity laced tributes to the drug trade, murder, and getting blitzed out of your fucking mind!

Who believes this bullshit? There are easier and more direct ways to surround yourself with prepubescent children than working for ten years to become a recognized figure in the underground rap scene, then somehow convincing a woman who swears in court that she doesn’t like you to leave her daughter with you for the night. How about becoming a school janitor, for instance?
Or a prison guard? Is she really trying to say that Coy became a rapper to surround himself with nine-year olds?

… she says that the onset of pedophilia doesn't occur suddenly in middle age, it begins developing much earlier. "They don't say, 'Ooh, she's really sexy, she's really coming on to me, I think I'll just explore this possibility,'" Johnson explains. "The preference was already there. Otherwise, it would have been sort of repulsive."

So where are the other victims? I’m not asking for more teenagers who tarted themselves up to go to a rap concert. I want to know where the other pre-pubescent victims are. According to the Mayo Clinic:

“Heterosexual pedophiles, in self-report studies, have on average abused 5.2 children and committed an average of 34 sexual acts…”

Now these are self-reported studies, so those numbers are probably a little low. According to the Counter Pedophilia Investigative Unit:

A 1994 National Institute of Health survey of 453 pedophiles, conducted by Dr. Gene Abel, showed these criminals were collectively responsible for the molestation of over 67,000 children. That’s an average of 148 children per individual pedophile.

So let’s say that, in spite of the hordes of nine-year-olds who were drawn to him because of his child-luring rap, Carlos Coy was only half as effective as the average pedophile. Then we’ll cut it in half again because he was young when he was locked up, and maybe didn’t have as much time as the reporting pedophiles did. That would have given him 37 victims. Now if he’s a true pedophile, he has a ‘preferential age range’. True pedophiles are not attracted to pre-pubescent AND pubescent children.

If Judy Johnson, TDCJ's expert on Sex Offender Treatment thinks that Coy is a pedophile, there should be 37 more 8 or 9-year old victims out there. All we got, post-sentencing, were the claims of teenage girls, none of which had to be proven, and none of which resulted in a court case. Even the case of the 14 year old who accused Coy of assaulting her after he was released on bail, which should have created some kind of physical evidence, was dropped after the one conviction was obtained.

http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2011/10/24/missing-a-locked-up-parent/

http://withoutafather.com/celebrities.php

http://www.cpiu.us/statistics-2/

Weekend Reading 17

South Park Mexican's Dope House Records: Help Wanted

SPM's Dope House Records seems to be expanding its workforce. In the midst of a tough job market, they're hiring.
A Linked in job announcement seeking a "Social Media Specialist" is circulating the web.

South Park Monster (Part 2)

My second objection to this article is the implication that Jill Odom was pursuing punitive (punishing) measures against Carlos Coy. Although I don’t know the exact nature of their relationship in 200-2001, it does not appear to have been particularly hostile, even considering Miss Odom’s legal actions of the time.

In April of that year, Jill Odom filed a lawsuit seeking to have Coy formally declared the father of her son, Jordan Dominique Odom, and to have him begin paying child support.

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While she praised Coy for his informal support of herself and the child -- "If I needed something, he would get it" -- her lawsuit hardly reflected that Coy had come up with assistance on a steady basis.

Articles mentioning Miss Odom invariably say that she ‘sued’ Coy. I guess that may be the correct term, but in general use it implies an aggressive action. In reality, it appears that she simply asked the court to declare him the father of their son. I think it’s likely she realized that he was making it big, and she wanted a concrete legal arrangement to provide for her child.

Even Coy's response seemed somewhat casual; in fact his lack thereof almost led to a default judgment in the case. After DNA testing to confirm paternity, the settlement called for Coy to pay $28,000 in back child support and $2,000 more for Odom's prenatal and birth expenses. He was to contribute $1,500 to a college fund for the boy, and begin paying $900 monthly in regular child support. Odom received primary custody.

Whether or not you agree with what she did, it was the smart thing to do. She could have prosecuted him at this point, but there is no mention of her filing any charges. From what she said at the trial, it appears that he had been taking care of her and she didn’t have a problem with him. If she was working at a strip club at age 13, she’s probably one of the millions who had to grow up fast and make hard choices; she admitted in court that Coy did not know her real age.

He did know she was only a middle school student, because he used to pick her up after her seventh-grade classes.

Uh, what now? The way he says this, it sounds like Coy used to walk in with the soccer Moms and sign her out of class. What does this guy mean, he picked her up from school? Did she have him walk her out of the building every day? Pick her up in the front? Wait at a nearby corner, or a gas station?

But even if she wasn’t sneaky enough to say ‘Meet me at the Valero’, Carlos Coy was a high school freshman for two years…He was a 17-year-old in a class of 14 year-olds.

From his point of reference the idea of someone being held back for two, three years would have seemed perfectly natural. So no, going off this information I don’t think it’s obvious that he would have known that because she was in middle school, she was a certain age.

The Pasadena woman said that when she became pregnant, Coy offered to marry her. That was quickly nixed by her parents, who refused to have anything to do with him.

So eventually, the parents knew that there was sex involved. No charges were filed at this time, which suggests that either they just didn’t give a fuck, or they knew their daughter was capable of making choices at that age, knew she wasn’t victimized, and figured it would make more sense to get child support than a court date.

When the suit naming Coy as the legal father was filed, Odom was 20 years old; apparently doing a good job raising her son, (Coy mentioned that he was proud of his son, and that he was doing well in school) and not trying to put Coy behind bars. That decision was made for her a year later, by Other Mother.

On September 25, a stunned Carlos Coy was behind bars, charged with aggravated sexual assault of the girl and also of Odom, the mother of the child he'd fathered in a relationship that began when she was 13.

I can’t stress this enough; he was charged for sleeping with Jill Odom…But never prosecuted. The DA’s office chose not to go forward with the one case that offered physical evidence, choosing instead to convict him of a crime using nothing more than accusations.

http://www.lanwt.org/txaccess/PATERNITY.asp

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/2001_3356890/legal-troubles-dog-local-rap-star-sex-allegations.html

Another SPM shirt

If you're on our Facebook page, you may have already seen this T-shirt with Carlos Coy as Tony Montana. Please remember that I am not the one selling these, but you can order your own from Swag-city.com. You can also find it to your right under 'Links'.

South Park Monster (Part 1)

The article ‘South Park Monster’ is an 8 page article written for Houston Press by John Nova Lomax in 2002. While it is very informative, I’d like to take it a few points at a time and really look at the story it presents.

“He was 17 and still a freshman when he decided to drop out for good, he told the Houston Press's Craig D. Lindsey in a 1999 interview. "One more year in high school," he said, "and I would've went to jail for fucking all those little young bitches."”

That is probably one of the most repeated quotes by Carlos Coy; it even came up during his trial. Finding the actual article it came from was an absolute BITCH. It’s from ’99, by a guy named Craig D. Lindsey. Lomax borrows heavily from this article to write ‘monster’. Here's the real quote:

"I was 17 years old in the ninth grade before I decided to go ahead and leave school," he says. "One more year in high school and I would've went to jail for fucking all those little young bitches, you know."

So this here we have unassailable proof of Coy's prediliction for underage girls, right? Wrong. Let’s take it apart.

Coy was still a freshman when he dropped out at 17 years of age.

Most schools begin enrolling Sept 1st. Carlos Coy’s birthday is not until October, meaning he would have been 15 when he began 9th grade for the first time.

Texas law provides an affirmative defense (Not a get out of jail free card, just a defense to use in case someone presses charges) for having sex with someone under the age of 17 as long as the individuals are within three years of each other's age. While I find the idea of kids having sex distasteful, the law seems to say it’s A-okay; 15 to 17-year-old Carlos could legally have sex with a 14-year-old born on or before Oct 5 every day up until his 18 birthday, with the full approval and endorsement of the great state of Texas.

Now I’m guessing that he didn’t actually drop out to avoid being charged for having sex with his classmates; he’d spent two years a freshman, he was probably frustrated, bored, and decided continuing on was pointless. Most of us in that situation would. The quote is a statement (I dropped out) and an observation (eventually, I might have gotten in trouble). He’s not saying “I dropped out so I wouldn’t get into trouble.”

This quote is shocking, not because it reveals some kind of perverse or illegal behavior, but because it draws our attention to the fact that the difference between ‘Puppy Love’ and ‘Sexual Assault of a Minor’ is one day. You hit that 18^th birthday and the girl you’ve been kissing after class for years is suddenly off-limits. You can't even touch her over her clothes without opening yourself up to charges. We don't want to admit that the laws are stupid, and arbitrarily criminalize behavior that has been smiled upon up till a certain birthday. We don’t like to think about the fact that a kid can get sent to prison for the rest of his life for having consensual pre-marital nookie on Prom Night.

Coy is not suggesting that he had committed a crime, or done anything other than what every teenage kid who enters high school with a dick and half-decent game has done. He’s pointing out a well known cut-off date that all young men in Texas would be wise to keep in mind. All you high school kids out there had better calculate the difference in age between you and any girl you happen to be sleeping with. If it’s more than 1,095 days, you better either break it off the night before your eighteenth birthday or never, ever piss her off after that date.

http://www.houstonpress.com/1999-08-05/music/hot-sauce/

http://www.houstonpress.com/2002-06-06/news/south-park-monster/

http://www.bakers-legal-pages.com/pc/2111.htm

Update: Per http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-romeo-and-juliet-law-takes-effect-in-texas-20110901,0,7606735.story
it looks like the three-year spread has been increased to four years as of Sept 1, 2011...Thanks to Wolfe Pack for the information!
http://www.fd.org/pdf_lib/Beneman_Affirmative_Defenses_materials.pdf

Weekend Reading 16

Not much reading today, but check out Lala's pictures of the Playamade Mexicanz video shoot at Dope House Records this week! You can find her on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and check out Lala's World at 12:30 am Thursdays, 2:30 am Fridays on Channel 55 in Houston.

Opinion Piece

I found an interesting article on the problem of false allegations of child abuse; it talks about why it happens, how it happens, etc. It seems that most professionals hold the belief that children would never, ever lie about sexual assault, and that children must be believed at all costs; even if the interviewer has to ‘help them along’ a bit.

We tend to assume that the mother in Coy Vs. Texas knew all along what she was doing, that she made up the accusation. It’s entirely believable that that’s true. However, she did not get all the way to trial by herself. There was a system in place that greased the skids, that allowed her to either knowingly imprison an innocent man or that convinced her that her own half-accepted idea was the truth.

Those of us with children fear for their safety. It’s just a fact of our lives, a constant wondering of “Are they okay?” “Who are they with?”. Most of us respond to that fear by keeping our kids away from people and situations that we dislike or mistrust.

At trial, Mom testified under oath that she disliked Carlos Coy because he ‘used drugs and beat women’. One has to ask, why the hell would you allow your daughter to spend the night his house, then? Even if you had no thoughts of inappropriate sexual behavior, why would you risk exposing your daughter to a man that you truly thought was dangerous?

But let's say that you do allow your precious nine year old daughter to spend the night at the home of a man who you believe is a threat to women and weed. You've spent the day shopping with him and his family and although you don't want to, you let her go.

Later that night, he drives her back to your house and you find out she's feeling ill. This dangerous man, whom you strongly dislike, gets invited to stay for a little while and have menudo with your family. He eventually goes home and you sit there, thinking. Did I make a mistake? What if she's not really ill? What if...God forbid...this man, whom I believe to be violent and out-of-control, and whom I entrusted my daughter to, molested her? Panic!

The girl supposedly told her mother about the abuse the next morning. Now, whether she said "Mom, I need to tell you something" or if the mother said "Honey, I need you to tell me something", we'll probably never know. We do know that the girls watched movies that depicted oral sex. We know that she had a sleep disorder, which probably involved nightmares. If we take the mother's statements in court at face value, that she believed Coy was a bad person, she's probably feeling a certain amount of guilt at letting her daughter stay at his house. So whoever brought up the supposed abuse, the other was primed and ready to support the story.

Eventually they end up in the hands of the professionals, who exist to confirm and prosecute stories just like theirs.

At this point there is no turning back. If there was even the slightest chance that the case was prosecutable, the professionals would have held on with both hands and their teeth.

In the 1989 case of Jay Van Story(Lubbock County), CPS workers told the 7-year-old victim that she would never see her mother again unless she helped them prosecute Van Story. He remains in prison.

The only thing that makes me suspect that the mother in Coy’s case was a willing participant, rather than a legitimately concerned Mother is the suggestion that after the CAC told her she had no evidence and they would not proceed, she brought them Jill Odom's story. That, to me, suggests a malicious intention to see Coy imprisoned no matter what. If they had told her the case would not be pursued, she probably brought Odom to their attention with the expectation that they would prosecute that case, and not her daughter's.

http://www.aaets.org/article50.htm

http://www.victimsofthestate.org/CC/CH.htm#Waller