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To: Bill who wrote (29682)	2/18/2005 1:13:26 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 90947

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To: Bill who wrote (29682)	2/18/2005 1:13:38 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Respond to of 90947

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To: Bill who wrote (29682)	2/18/2005 6:14:37 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Here we go again. Ken Schram Commentary: The Unspeakable Now Has A Voice February 18, 2005 By Ken Schram SEATTLE - So the unspeakable now has a voice. Listening to those Enumclaw women (see earlier story here) talk about how an 11-year-old girl helped seduce a 28-year-old man into raping her, made my stomach heave. What rock do these people live under? These women may have tried to disguise their sick views by adding that the 28-year-old man was wrong for having sex with a child, but it didn't matter. Jessica White and her adult daughter have the perverted sense that a little girl was somehow part of a "consenting" sexual relationship with an adult. In part of their interview, they actually said the girl asked for it. This is what the Mary Kay Letourneau's of the world have helped bring about: An attitude that innocent children are not so innocent after all. If people can come to accept that Letourneau's rape of a young boy was all about "love", then they can come to believe that an 11-year-old girl is capable of seducing a 28-year-old man. One might hope that the stupidity of this woman and her daughter is an isolated instance. One might want to believe that normal people can't be that depraved. Or one might be forced to admit that there are others like them, and the unspeakable is finding a voice. Want to share your thoughts with Ken Schram? You can e-mail him at kenschram@komo4news.com komotv.com The background story: Man Charged With Raping Young Neighbor February 17, 2005 By Tracy Vedder KING COUNTY - A 28-year-old Enumclaw man was in court Thursday, accused of raping his 12-year-old neighbor. Police are worried there might be other victims. Greg Thorp kept his head covered in court until the judge assured him his face would not be photographed. Thorp said nothing, and neither did Enumclaw police. Instead, they let the court records speak for themselves. According to those court documents, police say Thorp confessed to having sex with the girl, beginning when she was just 11-years-old, and that it happened as many as 15 times since last September. The two were neighbors in an Enumclaw apartment complex. The girl also told detectives about the sex, saying that Thorp is her boyfriend, and that she loves him. "I don't think it's fair that they're placing all the blame on him especially they don't understand his mental condition," said Jessica White. Jessica and Sue White say they've known both Thorp and the girl for years. They say Thorp suffers from Asperger Syndrome, a form of autism and is on medication. While the Whites don't condone Thorp's actions, they say he's not as bad as police are portraying him. "That was wrong, what he did was totally wrong," said Sue White. "I don't think that making the other individual out as the total victim and not knowing what was going on is totally wrong." But sexual assault experts say the age difference alone makes it very clear the 12-year-old girl is definitely a victim. "He has knowledge beyond her years of relationships," explained Shelley Weaver with the Harborview Medical Center Sexual Assault Center. "This in no way could be consensual on her part even if she conceived it that way." Detectives have not found any other victims so far, but they say the investigation is still open, Thorp is being held at the King County Regional Justice Center in lieu of $250,000 bail. Formal charges are expected to be filed by Friday. komotv.com