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DesireeNevermi
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WELL DAYUM....THE WORLD JUST GETS MORE & MORE UGLY!!!

Teen gets 12-month sentence for minor offense - and thug gets probation for raping her

disbelief disbelief

15-year-old Ashley had no inkling of what was to come on the day in 2005 when she was in Manhattan Family Court on a minor charge.

"You want to believe everybody's good, everybody wants to help you," she told me last week.

A hulking juvenile counselor named Tony Simmons led her in handcuffs from the girls holding area to the elevator.

She expected Tyson, as Simmons was called, to bring her up to the courtroom where she was scheduled to be sentenced for filing a false police report.

Instead, the elevator descended to the basement. The 42-year-old counselor pulled down her pants and raped her with calm, practiced precision that made him all the more terrifying.

"He knew exactly what he was doing," Ashley said. "Everything."

When he was done, Simmons pulled her pants back up and the elevator ascended to the courtroom. He raised an extended index finger to his lips in a mute command for her to say nothing.

"I was very scared," Ashley said. "I was terrified. He was a very large man."

Just moments after being violated, Ashley was seated next to her mother and before the judge. She was too shocked and terrified to report the attack.

"I knew I was just raped. I knew it wasn't supposed to happen," she recalled. "I didn't think anybody would believe me."

She kept silent as she was found to be a juvenile delinquent and sentenced to 12 months. She says her only crime was initially reporting to police she did not know who had jumped and cut her on the way to school.

Simmons continued to prey on teenagers in his custody until 2008, when a 15-year-old girl came forward to say he had sodomized her behind a locker in the girls holding area, which he stocked with condoms and cookies. Investigators believe the assaults go back a decade to the rape of a 13-year-old in the holding area.

"Just the tip of the iceberg," Assistant District Attorney Amir Vonsover said in 2008, when Simmons was indicted for three sex assaults.

On Sept. 27, Simmons appeared in court and pleaded guilty to raping Ashley and sexually assaulting two other teens.

He received probation.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/03/2010-10-03_raped_by_judge_and_justice_system.html#ixzz11d0CuHJx

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Reply #1 posted 10/06/10 5:49pm

2elijah

That's a damn shame!

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Reply #2 posted 10/06/10 5:50pm

BklynBabe

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disbelief
you know.....sigh!
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Reply #3 posted 10/06/10 6:11pm

paintedlady

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disbelief confused

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Reply #4 posted 10/06/10 6:35pm

myfavorite

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smh.........i hate that i can identify with that....plus she was slapped twice....until you cut one of em, and still be lucky to walk away with your life....disbelief just disbelief:

THE B EST BE YOURSELF AS LONG AS YOUR SELF ISNT A DYCK[/r]

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Reply #5 posted 10/06/10 7:12pm

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What a jerk disbelief

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Reply #6 posted 10/06/10 7:38pm

johnart

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sigh

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Reply #7 posted 10/06/10 8:30pm

Timmy84

This is why I don't trust the justice system. They're run by crooks.

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Reply #8 posted 10/07/10 4:49am

Neophyte

"He received probation."

WTF!!!!

"I know that living with u baby, was sometimes hard...but I'm willing 2 give it another try.
Cause nothing compares....nothing compares 2 u!"
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Reply #9 posted 10/07/10 5:08am

JoeTyler

The system : dead

Should I cry' or should I scream in anger? mad

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Reply #10 posted 10/07/10 5:58am

Ottensen

f***ed up. disbelief

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Reply #11 posted 10/07/10 6:28am

Shorty

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Neophyte said:

"He received probation."

WTF!!!!

yeahthat

unfucking believable!

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"not a fan" falloff yeah...ok
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Reply #12 posted 10/07/10 6:43am

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This is from bigthink.com writer Lindsay Beyerstein. I'm not familiar with either, so I don't know how reliable they are; just offering it up as further perspective.

The prosecutor, Amir Vonsover, says he held out for a one- to three-year prison term in exchange for a guilty plea. Even a three-year sentence would be a slap on the wrist for a confessed serial sexual predator who targeted helpless minors in his care.

That said, we shouldn't rush to blame the Vonsover for the light sentence. He probably didn't let Simmons off easy because of any secret fondness for rapists. The victim from the elevator admired Vonsover enough to name her son after him, so it's safe to assume she felt he was on her side.


Vonsover faced a strategic dilemma. If he offered a plea deal that carried serious jail time, Simmons and his lawyer might have preferred to take their chances in court. Vonsover probably agreed to a watered-down punishment because he wasn't sure he could get a conviction of the case went to trial.


That might have been a good call on Vonsover's part. Realistically, a jury might not have believed a black teen prisoner accusing a white court officer of rape with no witnesses and (as far as I can tell from media reports) no physical evidence. Simmons could easily have walked. He might even have gotten his job back. If Vonsover hadn't struck some kind of plea deal, Simmons could still be out there raping girls.

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Reply #13 posted 10/07/10 8:31am

Timmy84

Three-year sentence?!

BULLSHIT. rolleyes

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Reply #14 posted 10/07/10 11:52am

DesireeNevermi
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I could see the issue of "doubt" being raised if it were just one girl but it was THREE! What are the odds that 3 girls all under your supervision would be lying.

It's just a damn shame that these degenerates sneak their way into these types of jobs. I don't care how bad the kids were....he did not have the right to rape them. He should be in fucking jail...up under the jail.

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