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After reading these documents, I can see why the parents asked for 5 years instead of 7. Still, it's a sad story all the way around.

This hardly ruined the child's life.

Say whatever you'd like; post as many disclaimers as you want, but there's no reason for these documents to be published on this website.

None.

I don't think there was a crime here. The lives of these educators have been ruined but not the little horn dog that wanted to play house. No rape occurred. Sex between sexually mature adults happened. It is silly and ridiculous that the teachers were arrested much less got jail time. There were no innocent children involved.

Now I don't believe for a hot second that they were only involved in two brief "encounters". It was probably a torrid ongoing sex triangle. Just another Friday night in Madison County. I wonder if they had a pineapple flag outside their house?

I'm glad it was posted. I thought it was much worse. Bad enough for the sentencing to be a few years but the sentence was just.

3:00pm
Disagree. Every parent needs to read this. This is just awful.

The predators and deviants have always been there. But today's tech and social media have made it so much easier for these people to groom their victims and carry on communications with them outside of plain sight. When you give your child unfettered use of a smart phone you give the predators and deviants the same unfettered access to your child.

Didnt the principal get terminated behind this incident?

...but there's no reason for these documents to be published on this website.

Go complain to DonnerKay.

And, as always, thanks for being a loyal JJ reader!

3:00 - I guess it's too bad you're not in charge here. So complain as much as you want, but it won't make any difference.

None.

What happened to this child is unthinkable and should never have happened. I certainly hope, though, that this girl (or her family) never thinks in terms that the incident defines her or "ruined" her life. If she lets this incident "ruin" her life, she is giving these sick individuals one more second of her life they don't deserve.

"Hardly ruined the child's life" and "No reason for these documents to be published" obviously have never been a victim of child molestation. I have. I say more people need to see the real documents. Maybe it would wake up some parents. The impact of molestation on a child is life long. You learn to live with it but you NEVER get over it. Thanks for having the courage to post these documents on your blog.

Divorce attorneys are having a field day with iCloud. Turn it off people before what you have stupidly auto-stored there bites you in the ass.

"Just another Friday night in Madison County. I wonder if they had a pineapple flag outside their house?"

I suppose you missed the part about the Porters residing in Brandon.

The crime here is that the Coaches were in what the law calls a "position of authority over a vulnerable person (under age minor). That makes it a felony to do what they did. Bottom line is that they should have known better. I agree with the earlier poster that says all parents should read this. Also, bear in mind that it can, and has, happen to boys as well as girls.

I guess the fact that the wife started working on her when she was her student in junior high flew over some heads. Its called grooming for a reason.

People like 3:21 pm above scare the shit out of me.

For anyone who doesn't believe that the slippery slope we have started down will eventually reach out to acceptance of child sex, polyamory, bestiality, and other perversions, read the comments above. There are at least a couple of JFP types who are here defending this behavior.

It's the same old song in not so many words: "What's wrong with it? They were consenting. Why is it your business what other people do? No crime was committed here. It's just your outdated prudishness derived from a book of bronze age myths."

Traditional morality is sneered at by the "enlightened", who worship at the twin altars of tolerance and science to justify any behavior they deem acceptable. Statutory rape isn't so bad if those encouraging sex are young and one is an attractive female, and the target is on the cusp of adulthood, right? In fact, those teenage boys who engage in sex with a 25-year-old teacher are really lucky! It's not so bad! Quit judging, and remember the Bible tells you not to judge anyone (it doesn't say that, but that's for another day).

People, this is becoming all too common. This is the outworking of tolerance as defined by the modern amoral left. We are leaving behind a junkyard of twisted, broken children who are abused by people like Eric Law and these two, and who are effectively cheered on by the hip, artsy crowd, eager to show how enlightened they are, no matter whom it destroys.

LOL someone made reference to my comment about this hardly ruining the child's life. I say that because it hasn't and it won't. This was the end result that she wanted and she got it. The minor needs mental help obviously because she was so mentally unstable. Which actually for someone that knew the family was quite shocking to find out via the police report. Now I'm not defending the Porters, but both parties were guilt of wrongdoing.

From all the statements taken it looks as if they tried for a year to keep this girl away and finally gave in to appease the girl. They were screwed no matter what they did. In cases like this I think all 3 should do some time. Jail for the adults and juvenile detention for little miss persistence. Maybe if there were some consequences for these kids acting a fool they wouldn't be so quick to play games with other people's lives. I understand that the adults had the ultimate responsibility. But to call this girl "innocent" is a crock of @#$%. She practically blackmailed them into this crap. You can cry "she's a minor and the victim" all you want. She knew what the hell she was doing.

And what's up with these parents? File a complaint about contact with the coaches and then ask the same coaches out for socializing? If this inappropriate contact had been such a major issue why was she still even on the team? Is softball that important to these parents? Or did they just give in to what she wanted too? I think the whole lot of them need some psychiatric help.

... finally gave in to appease the girl.

Check yourself into Whitfield because you are certifiably nutso.

Ok, a pair of adults were named in one report. They were cleared by the police. Period. Their names were redacted and sorry for any confusion on their status. They've done nothing wrong and deserve to be cleared. No comments about them will be approved so don't even try.

5:09, these people were sentenced to years in prison. I hardly call that acceptance.

Your genocidal black book has infected your thinking.

I put a pineapple out on my porch in Madison and the only thing that happened was a dog pissed on it. It's a rotten mess now. What gives?

Congrats Kingfish. 5:09 is obviously Mike Huckabee. You've got a major celebrity grifter reading your blog.

I don't know where this kid goes to school now. But teachers. STAY THE HELL AWAY!!!! If I was a teacher there's no way on earth I'd even have this kid stand within 20 feet of me.

Please, some one help me figure out how to download the transcript's. Not stupid, just a little older and less tech savvy, thank you.

5:09 is insightful.

To each of you who somehow blame the child victim for the heinous crimes perpetrated upon her, after years of grooming her to become a participant in acts for which she is legally incompetent to give consent, thank goodness the family did not put the child through the horror of giving testimony in open court only to have one of you blubbering, accusatory idiots let the sick softball coaches off with a not guilty verdict. Let me spell it out for you, the victim child cannot give consent to participate in these illegal acts by statutory law. There's a reason why children are deemed to be minors, wards of the state until they are mature enough to fully comprehend the consequences of their acts. Quit judging her defensible actions and let her get on with her life before one of you imbecilic finger-pointers want to stitch a red letter "A" to her letter sweater. Idiots!!

You know what the problem here is? Smartphones. When we were all teens, the only way a wayward teacher could reach us was to call our home phones- where the parent was likely to answer.

Now the teacher and student can call and text each other. They can send pictures and all sorts of other groovy things via cellphone.

There is no damn reason for a 14 or 15 year old to have a smartphone. Period. Parents need to know where child is, need to contact a child, fine, a bar phone or strictly cellphone works fine.

There is on reason for them to have smartphones with cameras, and all sorts of technology that is unsupervised.

We don't let 10 year olds play with guns. Yes, there are some mature 12 year olds who can handle handguns but there is a reason there is a law for it. Giving a 12 year old a smartphone is like giving an 8 year old a loaded gun, they aren't mature enough to handle it and when they do something stupid, it will haunt them for a long time.

The parents give these kids these weapons of technological destruction and then are surprised when the same kids who will drive 80 mph down a regular street manage to blow themselves up with the same phone.

"Now the teacher and student can call and text each other. They can send pictures and all sorts of other groovy things via cellphone. "

This is a firing offense at my kids' school. Emails through their school account is okay (homework, assignments, etc) but phone, Facebook, etc contacts are forbidden.

It's not really all that odd that a female softball coach and player wind up getting involved with each other. It happens much more often than some of you can imagine. What's odd is that the coach had a husband and that he agreed to help her play out her fantasy.

I'm extremely glad that this information was posted. The public has the right to know what happened. My question is this... As a parent, if you were suspicious about this couple, why would you continue to allow your child to be around them and still be on the team. And after you knew for sure that they had molested your child, why would you ask that the sentence be reduced? Sounds fishyyyyyy!

"And after you knew for sure that they had molested your child, why would you ask that the sentence be reduced? "

I agree this is very strange.

The reason these documents should never be posted is simple:
when balancing the need for the public to know what happened (even including warning parents of potential problems) vs. the need for privacy of a victim, the need for privacy should always prevail.

Kingfish did not receive permission from the victim or the victim's family to post these details. The family made the decision to NOT go to trial so their daughter would not have to relive all of this, yet having the documents posted online does just that. We can pretend that people don't know who she is because she has not been named, but that's ridiculous. People know. And now they know much more than what was said during the plea.

Parents who need this much information in order to be better parents are likely currently parenting with their heads in the sand.

This is sensationalism at its worst. Posting the dangers of these situations is one thing, but doing this without the consent of the family of the victim is just irresponsible.

I went to Dennis Smith and other former reporters for their opinion and they read the report. Their opinion was unanimous. I followed every precaution possible.

If you people think this is easy, it's not. When you first read this report it makes you angry, disgusted, and sick. Then you have to read it a few times so you can actually redact it and write about it. That means going through a few states.

6:15 am Denial and guilt that they failed to protect their child and hoping to protect their child from the further trauma of having to be cross examined are a few of the reasons.

Part of grooming is to win the parents trust. That is done often by making friends with the parents.

The parents don't want to believe their judgment in people is so flawed. That calls into question their judgment about ALL people.

Pedophiles understand this and groom the parents as well.

Pedophiles pick jobs whenever possible that gives them access to children. They are often teachers, ministers/priests, scout leaders, coaches and those who teach outside activities.

Pedophiles don't look different. They are often charming and married.

Anytime an adult takes an unusual interest in your child , seeks to have alone time with your child, and especially invites the child to their home , a parent should be suspicious.


Pedophiles seek vulnerable children. So if your child is unhappy and has low self-esteem, if you are a single parent, if your spouse is rigid and especially hard on your child, if there is conflict at home that makes you child feel less safe and wishing for an escape, you are in the kind of situation a pedophile seeks.

And, unfortunately, some of the children they seek have already been " eroticized". By that , I mean some other adult in their family circle has already been grooming the child or has molested the child.

Sadly, most of the molestation of children is not done by strangers but someone in a position of trust.

There are books that can help parents. Understanding and Protecting Your Child from Molesters is one written by the Jensens. But, there are several out there.

At any rate, the coach's testimony is very typical. Pedophiles often describe their child victims ( even as young at 18 months old) as being the aggressors and seductive.

That any of you are so naïve as to give weight to the pedophile's testimony and fail to understand that the objective of the pedophile is to have their victims " love" them and feel the relationship is " special" astounds me!

That any of you don't understand the trauma that is attached to being a victim of molestation just tells me you don't want to know or understand. And, I have to question why that would be so.

5 years is not enough. We will hear from the Porters again. I understand not wanting to put the victim through more trauma. That decision is often made. But, I don't like it. Our laws to protect our children should be tougher and our law enforcement and judicial systems need to be better informed and prepared.

The parents shouldn't have had to be doing the police work on this case!

And, I do wonder why Children's Protective Services wasn't brought in immediately. Is it that ineffectual here so that the police don't turn to them in these cases?

Kingfish did not receive permission from the victim or the victim's family to post these details.

He doesn't need permission. PERIOD.

That any of you don't understand the trauma that is attached to being a victim of molestation just tells me you don't want to know or understand.

LMAO. Your need to lecture JJ readers over and over again tells me that you are a whacked out egomaniac.

According to "traditional morality," a rapist gets to marry his victim if she's unmarried. It's in Deuteronomy.

Should you be looking for clean antiseptic journalism 9:05 then you are probably in the wrong place by seeking it here.

How completely absurd that you condemn parents who many have "their heads in the sand" and simultaneously belittle them for potentially benefiting from the level of detail as presented in this story.

Should Kingfish's reporting help just one set of parents, or one parent, recognize a pattern of conduct that helps alert them to a situation with their own child then the editorial decision he made after great consideration will be worth it.

Basically every student in that school and most everyone in the community know exactly who that minor is. The Initials in the video were also a dead giveaway if you weren't really sure. Along with her birthday. In my opinion she should be in some kind of serious counciling and no longer in any local school. Unless she moves to a completely different part of the state, she'll be surrounded by people who will have read every little detail about what went on. She'll be pointed out and gossiped about until she's gone to college. Kids these days aren't as sympathetic as some of you who say she's completel inncocent and will make her life miserable because of this.

Sometimes the need for privacy and an appropriate environment for recovery for the victim takes priority over the public's need to know.

On one level, I appreciated the police report in that it satisfied much of our curiosity and answered a lot of questions about what took place. Still, I felt guilty reading it because it was somewhat of a re-victimization of this young girl. I say that because I think it's true that everyone in that community knows who the victim was. Just saying she was a member of the girls softball team narrowed the choices to 15 or so individuals. Since this was first reported, enough info has been released to where even someone living in China could figure out who the victim was with just a couple of google searches.

This kids life was totally disrupted during a time when innocence and the adventure of becoming a young adult should have been the focus. That was taken away from her. She had to quit participating with her team in a sport she loved. She has to attend another school. No doubt friendships were lost and/or forever affected. She will always carry the reputation of being the 15 year old who had sex with both her coaches. For the rest of her high school experience she will have to contend with guys (and girls) who will want to date or befriend her because of her reputation, not because they like her for the person she is. No, this kid was definitely victimized....divulging the blow by blow details of the sexual activities she engaged in with the Porters is just wrong.

10:04 am

I was responding to 6:15 am 's concerns about the parents.

I try to assume that those making outrageously inaccurate comments are ignorant on the subject matter.

It's interesting that you feel so threatened by facts.

To 2/9/15 @ 2:45 pm "This hardly ruined a child's life" and to 2/9/15 @ 3:00 pm "I don't think there was a crime here. The lives of these educators have been ruined but not the little horn dog that wanted to play house. No rape occurred. Sex between sexually mature adults happened. It is silly and ridiculous that the teachers were arrested much less got jail time. There were no innocent children involved."

Y'all obviously have no children of your own, are a pedophile yourself or you have no concept of the terms, Minor Child v. Consenting Adult. A 15 year old, who was brainwashed by her husband/wife softball coaches to believe that they loved her and would never hurt her, and then who was molested by these same predators and made to believe that participating in sex acts with each of them was acceptable, is still a Minor Child who cannot consent, cannot make decisions for herself, cannot drive a car by herself, cannot enter into a contract, cannot legally smoke cigarettes or consume alcohol, and cannot vote. She is hardly an adult, much less a consenting one. Sounds like y'all need to grow up and smell the coffee that innocence was lost here at the hands of those to whom she had given her trust, albeit foolishly. Foolish as a child that is...

14 year girl old throws herself at her 16 year old boyfriend, has sex, and its ignored and called kids being kids. That same 14 year old with anyone over 18 and she's suddendly an innocent angel and the adult is the devil and a brainwashing pedophile. It's the same result people. The hypocrisy is thick. The Porters are stupid and they should be in jail. But to call this girl innocent in all this is just ignorance. I'll bet 60% of her classmates in her own grade are also having sex. Are they all innocent brainwashed angels or all kids being kids? How can you with a straight face pick and choose when a kid is brainwashed victim of systematic deviants and not just being a typical horny teenager?

Sex is a very odd thing in this society. People talking about accepting child sex should study the history of laws in Mississippi. The age of consent has only recently been upped to 16 from 14.

The punishments for these crimes are far too severe. Even kids are finding themselves charged with sex crimes, of which all participants were willing. Puritanism is strong in these.

4:16 pm Your inability to engage in analytical thinking is showing.

A 16 year old boy is not in a position of authority than a teacher is in.

An adult should have control over their hormones!

Have you never heard the term " in loco parentis"?

And, that you know so little about human sexuality, psychology or child development is obvious.

You don't know this girl or the biological reasons she could be more vulnerable than other girls her age.

That you choose to opine in such ignorance causes me to hope you have no children now or in the future!

5:50 pm Those who investigate child neglect and abuse don't agree with " upping the age" to 16.

You fail to understand how difficult it is to prosecute these cases if they go to trial.

The victim's history and behavior is put on trial and children and teens make very bad witnesses. Any lawyer worth a damn can brutalize them in cross.

As a result, the evidence has to be very strong for a DA to be willing to prosecute . And, KFs report indicated that it is also difficult to get the police to investigate. The mother of the victim did their work for them!

Child abuse and molestation has nothing to do with the Puritanical cultural influences and everything to do with children being seen as their parents' property. Indeed, the first child was protected under our animal abuse laws as animals were seen as more valuable than our children!

Every time anyone opines that the girl enticed this or brought in on themselves, I'm stunned. Adult males should be insulted by anyone who suggests they have no control so little control over their bodies.

Here's a news flash for those kinda folks, sex starts between the ears, not between the legs!

That myth has been perpetrated by males who needed to justify their bad behavior.

There are women who throw themselves at men and men who are dumb enough to succumb, but we aren't discussing an adult woman. And, women who have made overtures to men and who have a shady sexual history don't succeed in prosecutions!

Please, y'all read some books on human sexuality so we can end these myths!

Holy Mary, Mother of God. You dreadful people that spout out that the girl deserves this are sick! Absolutely, vile and sick. Where on earth did you learn that a girl deserves this just because she is a girl and some horrid or pair of horrid adults entice her, brainwash her, take advantage of her vulnerable nature and therefore she is guilty.

May God have mercy on your souls, because I think your are dispicable and vile.

It wasn't mentioned in any of the comments that they changed their numbers to keep out of contact with this child, outside of softball, YET she "snuck" and texted herself from their phones to retrieve their numbers. I'd say this is a very sad situation, and there's way more to it. Take my word!

I listened to your discussion of the Porter case yesterday. You say it was disgusting, then you call it a "threesome". Let make it clear this was a gang rape and nothing else! This minor girl was groomed and brought slowly in to this strategically to make her feel as an equal participant. This is a key component of a serial pedophiles grooming technique to make the child silent and equally guilty. It's obvious, in the transcript or police report, they (the rapists) were trying to convince the authorities that the minor had a 'special power' over them.

Then you go on with this BS about what's going to happen to these two criminals after they get out of jail and how easy it's going to be for the female to attract men. Well, maybe some the freaks that post here about how this wasn't a crime at all might, I guess.

All of this seems suspicious. First of all, the child's mother seem to be covering up something. I wonder what the Porter's have on her, you will agree to drop their sentence to 5 yrs. Your child was molested woman. I would not be dropping charges, I still be kicking their asses today. They should never walk this earth again. Second, why did the principal lose her job, she don't teach in the Summer time, which it was going on with the mother acknowledge. The principal should sue the school, school board and everyone involved in her losing her job. My heart goes out to this child. Everything the Porter's said sound like a lie. They should get life in jail. The Porter's must be white, surely if they was black, they would have gotten the maxium and more. Racism still alive in America, especially in Mississippi.

Personally knowing the student involved, I think it is very wrong of each of you to decide who the blame is on. I don't think you have ever been in her situation or her parents situation to determine anything. For you to call her names, say terrible things about her, makes you all idiotic. I really hope each of you come to a piece of mind and know that you obviously aren't involved to know full complete details. In this, the very sick Porters made it seem like it was all the childs fault. If they were very concerned for her, they would have talked to someone. Why don't you all act like mature adults that you claim to be and stop trying to tear down a teenage girl who was involved in a scandal. Go do your job and stop worrying about this.