# Arkansas man rapes and impregnates a child and gets a year of probation and a $700 fine **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 21, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135 "2025-07-21T09:44:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![slash2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@slash2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slash2k)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/21 "2025-07-21T15:31:43Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Why the Hell was there even a plea bargain, here? It’s trivial for genetic evidence to prove that he did it, and similarly trivial to prove that it was non-consensual, because the victim was underaged. Put it through the justice system, and it’s an open-and-shut case. Putting an unwilling or uncooperative victim, especially a minor, on the witness stand comes with its own set of risks. The genetic evidence would prove he’s the father (if there is genetic evidence: did she carry the pregnancy to term? is so, is the baby available for testing [e.g., not adopted out-of-state] ? if not, is there a chain of custody for the products of conception?). However, the girl’s own testimony can prove how and where it happened. If it wasn’t in Arkansas, then some other state’s laws apply and some other state’s courts have jurisdiction. If a turkey baster was involved, then sexual assault laws may not apply. If she can’t or won’t testify as to the how and where, is his statement even admissible, much less sufficient? If she testifies, but says she was a willing participant and wants to move forward with this man in her life, can the prosecution convince all twelve on the jury to disregard her wishes and in effect ruin her life plans too, or will one or more be swayed to sympathy for her and vote to acquit? This sounds like a bad decision by the prosecution, but without knowing exactly what factors the prosecutor had to consider, criticism is perhaps premature. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/22 "2025-07-21T17:25:13Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > While also doing all they can to make it as hard as possible to get prenatal care, of course. That was the biggest thing my conservative father objected to about the ACA: That it expanded prenatal care. Because OF COURSE that’s just a code-word for abortion, because what else could it possibly mean? You just know this dude is going back to his life all will be forgotten and this girl is fucked for life. ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/23 "2025-07-21T17:45:16Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Also, Arkansas. I think this is a rite of passage for men in Arkansas. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d estimate that roughly 100 percent of the men in Arkansas have done this. This is a terrible story, and Arkansas can be a real shithole, but this is uncalled for. Can we manage to disparage people based on their geographic location in a less all or nothing sort of way? (Was born in AR, have friends and relatives there who put up with enough dumb shit already, thanks) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/24 "2025-07-21T17:53:09Z")
There may be some practical issues that justice is bending to accommodate. It will be a lot easier for the victim to collect child support and perhaps even civil damages from an able bodied convict out on probation than one locked up and financially destitute. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/25 "2025-07-21T18:02:51Z")
Arkansas, with all our problems, is certainly not the _reason_ this scumbag skirted a cromulent sentence and judgement. These jerks are everywhere. One lives in the Whitehouse. One killed himself in prison. One, former rap icon is cooling his heels in prison. One is a Royal prince. Yeah, don’t blame the south. Don’t blame Arkansas. Blame the _Men_ who believe they have the right to “sexually assault” very young women, Guess where they got the idea it is okay? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/26 "2025-07-21T18:05:26Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > One killed himself in prison. Allegedly. My personal apologies to Frilly Heck. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/27 "2025-07-21T18:13:04Z")
Well, ok. But he’s dead. Though his files live on. (What exactly are you apologizing to @Frilly_Heck for? I know for a fact that all (100%, your term) have in fact not raped, impregnated, slept with underage girls) ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/28 "2025-07-21T18:18:27Z")
Calling my dad and granddad child rapists by painting with a broad brush, I assume. (And thanks, @bobot , I appreciate that. ) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/29 "2025-07-21T18:22:51Z")
Child rape. Child sexual exploitation, and trafficking did not start in Arkansas. It happened here, of course. It happened _Everywhere_ from way way back. Well before the US or Arkansas was even a place. I find it a very offensive statement. We’re not all bad here. Hey, I live here. And I’m nice. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/30 "2025-07-21T18:23:22Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Guess where they got the idea it is okay? Where? ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/31 "2025-07-21T18:23:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Unless, of course, the reason that the law enforcement authorities agreed to the plea deal was because they saw nothing wrong with what he did. They need to be investigated, too, because they’ve probably got a host of sex crimes in their histories, too. Yeah. When I read about something like this, it’s usually not so much about what they did but rather who was doing it. If it’s someone from a minority community, they throw the book at them. If it’s a good ol’ boy, they get off with a slap on the wrist. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/32 "2025-07-21T18:23:43Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Nowhere is rape mentioned (either in the report or any police charges. Statutory, most likely. > [@bobot](#): > > Also, Arkansas. I think this is a rite of passage for men in Arkansas. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d estimate that roughly 100 percent of the men in Arkansas have done this. If I had to guess, this would be the dumbest Dope post in, well, the last 48 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/33 "2025-07-21T18:23:46Z")
Pornography ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/34 "2025-07-21T18:26:26Z")
Give it time. I’m posting. Im sure something really dumb will come out of my head before long. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/35 "2025-07-21T18:41:33Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Arkansas, with all our problems, is certainly not the _reason_ this scumbag skirted a cromulent sentence and judgement. > > These jerks are everywhere. > One lives in the Whitehouse. > One killed himself in prison. > One, former rap icon is cooling his heels in prison. > One is a Royal prince. > > Yeah, don’t blame the south. Don’t blame Arkansas. > Blame the _Men_ who believe they have the right to “sexually assault” very young women, > Guess where they got the idea it is okay? This. It’s not Arkansas, it’s the good ol’ boy system. In Arkansas the good ol’ boys are (usually) rednecks. In other places, the good ol’ boys have different cultures / backgrounds / accents / religions etc. What they have in common, and the reason the got the idea that what they do is okay, is because they are caught they get a slap on the wrist from their fellow good ol’ boys. Those good ol’ boys might be rednecks, or British nobility, or Catholic priests, or business executives, and so on. But they all look out for each other, which is why we get these outcomes. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/36 "2025-07-21T18:50:38Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Also, Arkansas. I think this is a rite of passage for men in Arkansas. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d estimate that roughly 100 percent of the men in Arkansas have done this. I’m a man in Arkansas. Fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/37 "2025-07-21T21:18:52Z")
I don’t understand why the court thinks this guy will benefit from a mental health assessment and parenting classes. I think some instruction is less than what this guy needs. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/38 "2025-07-21T21:45:37Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Jesus. Where is Samuel L. Jackson’s character in _A Time to Kill?_ > > [Man accused of impregnating child avoids imprisonment with plea deal](https://www.fox5vegas.com/2025/07/18/man-accused-impregnating-child-avoids-imprisonment-with-plea-deal/) > > He was drunk. That’s an excuse? He has to attend a parenting class. Fuck, are they actually gonna give him joint custody? On the bright side, the $700 (actually $690) goes straight to the kid he impregnated. That baby’s gonna live like royalty! ETA: /s ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/39 "2025-07-21T21:47:51Z")
I second the motion. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135/40 "2025-07-21T21:48:40Z")
Thank ya’ll for chiming in. Terrible statement, altogether. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-man-rapes-and-impregnates-a-child-and-gets-a-year-of-probation-and-a-700-fine/1021135.md?page=3)