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Rapist Wants Visitation Rights With Child Conceive
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Rapist Wants Visitation Rights With Child Conceived During Rape
By COLLEEN CURRY
Sept. 29, 2012
A convicted rapist in Massachusetts is trying to win visitation rights to the child fathered when he raped a 14-year-old girl.
Jamie Melendez, now 24, was convicted of raping a middle school student he met when he was 17 and a foster child involved with a church youth group in Norfolk, Mass. According to the victim's attorney, Melendez went to the girl's house when he knew her mother would not be home and pressured her to have sex with him. She said she felt threatened and intimidated by Melendez.
Melendez pleaded guilty to the rape in 2011 and was sentenced to 16 years probation. Judge Thomas McGuire, who oversaw the criminal case against Melendez, remanded the case to Family Court in the Spring where Melendez was ordered to pay $110 a week in child support to the victim.
Now, Melendez has filed a petition in Family Court arguing that if he is forced to pay child support, he should have the right of visitation, a situation the victim's attorney says would be outrageously unjust.
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"Once I learned that the judge ordered a rapist to go off to Family Court and pay child support, which is pretty outrageous - in a sense it decriminalizes the behavior, or frames it other than a serious crime - I got on board and filed a motion to reverse the judge's order," said Wendy Murphy, a criminal attorney and academic at the New England School of Law.
"My client is very worried she'll have to send her daughter off to this man she doesn't know, and tell her she'll be going off on visits with the man who raped her mother and created her. We're fiercely fighting against concept of even being in Family Court," Murphy said.
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By COLLEEN CURRY
Sept. 29, 2012
A convicted rapist in Massachusetts is trying to win visitation rights to the child fathered when he raped a 14-year-old girl.
Jamie Melendez, now 24, was convicted of raping a middle school student he met when he was 17 and a foster child involved with a church youth group in Norfolk, Mass. According to the victim's attorney, Melendez went to the girl's house when he knew her mother would not be home and pressured her to have sex with him. She said she felt threatened and intimidated by Melendez.
Melendez pleaded guilty to the rape in 2011 and was sentenced to 16 years probation. Judge Thomas McGuire, who oversaw the criminal case against Melendez, remanded the case to Family Court in the Spring where Melendez was ordered to pay $110 a week in child support to the victim.
Now, Melendez has filed a petition in Family Court arguing that if he is forced to pay child support, he should have the right of visitation, a situation the victim's attorney says would be outrageously unjust.
PHOTO: A convicted rapist in Massachusetts is trying to win visitation rights to the child fathered when he raped a 14-year-old girl.
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A convicted rapist in Massachusetts is trying... View Full Size
Central Park Rape Suspect Arrested Watch Video
Teen Turns Tables on Bullies at Homecoming Game Watch Video
State Tells Schools to Dump Native American Mascots Watch Video
"Once I learned that the judge ordered a rapist to go off to Family Court and pay child support, which is pretty outrageous - in a sense it decriminalizes the behavior, or frames it other than a serious crime - I got on board and filed a motion to reverse the judge's order," said Wendy Murphy, a criminal attorney and academic at the New England School of Law.
"My client is very worried she'll have to send her daughter off to this man she doesn't know, and tell her she'll be going off on visits with the man who raped her mother and created her. We're fiercely fighting against concept of even being in Family Court," Murphy said.
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Comments
Should not be a problem for the rapist .
His lawyer should have no problem getting it before a stupid judge in that state .[;)]
Merc
Sick. Also, what kind of idiot doesn't get their kid an abortion in this instance? That is just stupid.
Merc
This was "discussed" on this forum recently. Many people here would force their daughter to carry the baby to term.
quote:Originally posted by Mercury
Sick. Also, what kind of idiot doesn't get their kid an abortion in this instance? That is just stupid.
Merc
This was "discussed" on this forum recently. Many people here would force their daughter to carry the baby to term.
And many people "there" would force their daughter to murder her baby.
quote:Originally posted by m1aguy
quote:Originally posted by Mercury
Sick. Also, what kind of idiot doesn't get their kid an abortion in this instance? That is just stupid.
Merc
This was "discussed" on this forum recently. Many people here would force their daughter to carry the baby to term.
And many people "there" would force their daughter to murder her baby.
Yup. Can't have an abortion topic without one or the other side being completely heartless! Let's try and not make my IBTL necessary.
d is just trying to build "i'm really a nice guy" future appeal for release...might even make it work in our liberal victim is to blame crappy court system
I cannot see a judge giving him visitation but stranger things have happened. I also can't imagine a judge giving a rapist only 16 years probation.