Homosexuals rape, torture & kill a 13yo boy
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by two homosexual men. No prizes for guessing why.
This has everything to do with gay people.
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Joyce Howard Price
Most of the nation has not heard about two homosexual men who face the
death penalty in Arkansas, charged with raping and torturing a
13-year-old boy to death last month.
The brutal crime against Prairie Grove, Ark., seventh-grader Jesse
Dirkhising -- who was raped repeatedly and suffocated with his own
underwear in the pre-dawn hours of Sept. 26 -- was reported by news
organizations in Arkansas and also covered by newspapers in Oklahoma
and Tennessee.
But the boy's death did not receive national media attention. Tim
Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, said
he is not surprised.
"Nobody wants to say anything negative about homosexuals. Nobody wants
to be seen on the wrong side of that issue," said Mr. Graham, who sees
"political correctness" at work.
But David Smith, spokesman for a major homosexual lobbying group, the
Human Rights Campaign, said Thursday of the Jesse Dirkhising case:
"This has nothing to do with gay people."
The muted press reaction to the Dirkhising slaying starkly contrasts
with coverage of the murder of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual
University of Wyoming freshman who was beaten to death last October.
Christopher D. Plumlee, deputy prosecuting attorney for Benton County,
Ark., who investigated Jesse's death, admits he was a "little
surprised" at the limited coverage this "horrible crime against a
child" received.
Joshua Macave Brown, 22, and Davis Don Carpenter, 38, described as
homosexual "lovers" in a police affidavit, have both been charged with
capital murder and six counts of rape and are being held without bond
in connection with Jesse's death.
The accused killers pleaded not guilty at an arraignment earlier this
month and face another court date Dec. 8. Mr. Plumlee said their trial
is scheduled for April 10, 2000.
Mr. Carpenter was a friend of Jesse's parents, Tina Yates and Miles
Yates Jr., and the boy had been staying with the two men at their
apartment in Rogers, Ark., on weekends for two months prior to his
death, Mr. Plumlee said. The prosecutor said the child's family had
been falsely told Jesse helped out at a Rogers beauty salon Mr.
Carpenter managed.
According to the affidavit, Mr. Brown told police that on the morning
of Sept. 26, he sneaked up on the boy, tied his hands behind his back,
placed his pair of undershorts in the teen's mouth and secured the
briefs with a bandana and duct tape. He said he blindfolded the youth,
bound him to a bed and repeatedly sodomized him.
Mr. Brown said he went to the kitchen to get a sandwich and that when
he returned to the bedroom, Jesse was not breathing. He alerted his
roommate, who called 911.
Asked about Mr. Carpenter's role during the crime, Mr. Brown said Mr.
Carpenter stood at the bedroom door and masturbated as he watched.
Police also recovered notes they believe implicate Mr. Carpenter in
planning the crime.
Mr. Plumlee would not speculate on why this slaying received such
scant coverage. But "this was murder and rape in an area that has a
low crime rate, a particularly low rate of violent crime. We generally
don't have crimes with this degree of brutality here," he said.
He added he sees local outrage at the "torture" Jesse endured. "But I
don't see outrage directed at homosexuals," he said.
News stories published about the crime, to date, have not indicated
the suspects are homosexuals.
Jack Stokes, director of employee publications for Associated Press,
confirmed Thursday that AP ran stories about the case on state and
local wires but not on its national wires. "I do not know why the
story has not moved nationally, but it's a continuing story, so that
could change," he said late Thursday. AP last covered the story Oct.
11, when the two suspects were arraigned.
By contrast, the day after Mr. Shepard's Oct. 8, 1998, beating in
Wyoming, the Associated Press national wire carried its first 400-word
story by staff writer E.N. Smith headlined: "Openly gay student
critically injured in Wyoming attack."
The next day, Oct. 10, AP produced a 700-word story with the headline:
"Gay student clings to life after savage beating." On Oct. 11, AP
moved a 500-word story headlined: "Call for tougher laws after attack
on gay student." A search through Associated Press on-line archives
showed the Shepard story was reported as a national story every day
for a week following the beating.
Barbara Levinson, a spokeswoman for "NBC Nightly News," said, "We did
not cover" the Dirkhising case. Given that the broadcast is only 30
minutes long, she said, "There are many crime stories that don't make
it on the air."
Another network spokeswoman said the story of Jesse's killing has not
been presented on "Today" or "Dateline NBC" either.
A spokeswoman for CNN said, "Our affiliate station in Atlanta was
tracking the story. But the week it happened, there was also Hurricane
Floyd, the nuclear power plant explosion in Japan, the London train
wreck, and the flare-up in East Timor."
The spokeswoman could not say definitively whether CNN reported
anything about the Arkansas case. She said the people who would know
had already left for the day.
Paul McMasters, national ombudsman for the Freedom Forum, a private
media foundation, acknowledged he had not heard about the Dirkhising
murder until Thursday when a reporter called and inquired. "I'm at a
loss to explain why a story like this didn't get more national play,"
he said. "We don't know how many stories just like this one don't make
it to the national news."
One person angered that the Jesse Dirkhising killing has not received
wider coverage is former Louisiana state lawmaker David Duke, the
one-time Ku Klux Klan leader who describes himself as a "national
white civil rights activist."
Mr. Duke said Thursday the media should be covering the Dirkhising
case with the "same vigor" it reported Mr. Shepard's death.
"There has been no outrage and no candlelight vigils for Jesse
Dirkhising," even though the murder was "even more heinous than the
Shepard case because the victim was a child who was literally raped to
death by two male homosexuals," said Mr. Duke.
But Mr. Smith of Human Rights Campaign countered: "This is a desperate
political ploy and a comeback attempt by a failed neo-Nazi, who hasn't
won a major election since he was elected Grand Wizard."
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Al Guerra
>
> Up until now the media has tuned out the torture death of Arkansas boy
> by two homosexual men. No prizes for guessing why.
>
> This has everything to do with gay people.
>
But absolutely nothing to do with men's rights, correct? Post it in
another newsgroup, possibly one that deals with bias in the media.
Ciao!
Gator
Paul R
preyed on a number of boys over the years; the parents of one of the boys
involved in it began to have suspicions and were starting to investigate
the matter. The man convinced the boy that the way to take care of a
problem was to "kill it," and the boy killed his parents. But I've yet to
see any discussion of the case outside Arkansas.
Paul R
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