# Man charged with raping 3-year-old girl...sick, sick, sick
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 12, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939 "2004-03-12T18:00:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/1 "2004-03-12T18:00:24Z")
Rockville Man Is Charged With Raping 3-Year-Old
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51908-2004Mar11.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51908-2004Mar11.html)
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> Sunil Roopnarine, 29, was charged with the second-degree rape of a 3-year-old girl, who authorities said was left in Roopnarine’s care March 5 while her family tended to an emergency.
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> Utter said abuse was suspected after the girl was picked up from Roopnarine’s house the following morning. Utter said the girl “disclosed what happened, and [her parents] took her to a hospital, where she was checked.”
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> According to charging documents filed yesterday in Rockville, the girl told her mother that Roopnarine had told her to engage in oral sex with him. Afterward, the girl told her mother, Roopnarine had sexual intercourse with her. She “described the events in detail,” according to the documents.
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> The girl was taken to a doctor, who noted “obvious trauma” to the girl’s vaginal area, the documents state.
He faces a combined maximum of 65 years in prison…I think he deserves death, slow and painful and violent. What in the world could possibly cause a person to do something like this?
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/2 "2004-03-12T18:40:45Z")
What about the San Diego man in whose possession were found photos of him abusing a 2 month old? anything further on that?
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/3 "2004-03-12T18:52:46Z")
Mental illness would cause them.
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### Author:  [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/4 "2004-03-12T20:42:09Z")
And in other news, the Earth’s atmosphere contains air.
I am 100% positive I will get severely flamed for this, but I just am not understanding the mentality of people who scour the news for single incidents of child rape and then post threads of outrage. Doesn’t it go without saying? Is ANYONE IN THE UNIVERSE arguing that raping a 3-year old is a _good_ thing to do? Do we really need a new thread for every one of the billions of times somebody does something evil?
Commence flaming…
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### Author:  [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/5 "2004-03-12T21:18:43Z")
**Blowero** , you are exactly right.
People, as gruesome and disgusting as this is, we all know how evil people can be and really don’t need to know about it on a thread-by-thread basis. Maybe we should petition to have a sticky thread at the top of the forum for the molesters Etc. ?
Sam
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### Author:  [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/6 "2004-03-12T22:29:53Z")
While I’m certainly not saying that the rapist didn’t do a horrible thing, I just don’t understand the slow and painful death that some people here seem to want certain criminals to suffer. What is this, the fifteenth century?
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/7 "2004-03-12T22:34:42Z")
I don’t know about this. Is a 3-year-old capable of describing the details of a rape?
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### Author:  [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/8 "2004-03-12T23:04:24Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#):
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> I don’t know about this. Is a 3-year-old capable of describing the details of a rape?
Not quite in the way the OP’s quote describes (I refuse to register to read an article, so I haven’t seen the full text). But most 3 year olds have a decent vocabulary- certainly most of them know rudimentary terms for their body parts, thanks to toilet training- and can certainly string enough words together to get the message across.
What likely happened is the parents said something along the lines of “So, what did you and Freaky Molester Guy do last night?” expecting the child to list off the card or board games they played or tv they watched, and instead getting something more along the lines of “Freaky Molester Guy put his peepee in my tata.”
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### Author:  [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/9 "2004-03-12T23:16:01Z")
> [@GaWd](#):
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> **Blowero** , you are exactly right.
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> People, as gruesome and disgusting as this is, we all know how evil people can be and really don’t need to know about it on a thread-by-thread basis. Maybe we should petition to have a sticky thread at the top of the forum for the molesters Etc. ?
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> Sam
You know just yesterday I was thinking we need a Sticky thread with a thread title like “Hell Readies a Room\*”
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/10 "2004-03-12T23:35:46Z")
> [@bobkitty](#):
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> (I refuse to register to read an article, so I haven’t seen the full text)
You can get there via [Google](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=roopnarine).
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> _What likely happened is the parents said something along the lines of “So, what did you and Freaky Molester Guy do last night?” expecting the child to list off the card or board games they played or tv they watched, and instead getting something more along the lines of “Freaky Molester Guy put his peepee in my tata.”_
Or there’s some funny business going on. I say we wait for more info before we string him up.
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### Author:  [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/11 "2004-03-13T03:48:28Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#):
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> You can get there via [Google](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=roopnarine).Or there’s some funny business going on. I say we wait for more info before we string him up.
Oh, I agree completely. My comment was just to illustrate how a 3yo may communicate sexual abuse, not to make any definitive comment either way about his guilt or innocence. I want to see way more information before deciding something like that.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/12 "2004-03-13T04:06:04Z")
No problem. The second part was intended toward the thread in general.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/13 "2004-03-13T04:30:37Z")
> [@blowero](#):
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> And in other news, the Earth’s atmosphere contains air.
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> I am 100% positive I will get severely flamed for this, but I just am not understanding the mentality of people who scour the news for single incidents of child rape and then post threads of outrage. Doesn’t it go without saying? Is ANYONE IN THE UNIVERSE arguing that raping a 3-year old is a _good_ thing to do? Do we really need a new thread for every one of the billions of times somebody does something evil?
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> Commence flaming…
And the 4 grammer and spelling rants (that I found in a cursory search) you opened in the pit are much more worthy of our time? You think the OP _scoured_ news items looking for something to post about? You don’t think it was more likely that the he ran across the item, got pissed off about it, and remembered that he had a forum in which he could express it?
Relax. I’m sure I’ll make plenty of spelling and grammer errors for _you_ to fume about…
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### Author:  [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/14 "2004-03-13T08:23:26Z")
Thanks - I was starting to think my prediction of getting flamed might turn out to be wrong. 😉 We can always count on you, spooje. Hmmm…shouldn’t **taxguy** be showing up pretty soon?
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### Author:  [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/15 "2004-03-14T03:08:16Z")
No comment about the news story itself, except to say that one of my friends said that’s the brother of a friend of hers. I didn’t believe it when I first heard it from her.
And BTW, **spooje** , **nyctea** is a “she.” 🙂
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/16 "2004-03-14T03:34:42Z")
Ah, I had a 50/50 shot… that’ll learn me.
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/17 "2004-03-14T14:59:17Z")
> [@spooje](#):
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> Relax. I’m sure I’ll make plenty of spelling and **grammer** errors for _you_ to fume about…
That would be “grammar.” 🙂
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### Author:  [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/18 "2004-03-14T22:35:13Z")
As a former kid whose stories could well have graced the pit I find the outrage is very useful for me to see actually. I imagine I am not alone in that.
Not that the SDMB needs to play therapist but these sorts of threads do serve a purpose, albeit not one that is likely intended by the posting of them.
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### Author:  [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/19 "2004-03-15T07:22:12Z")
So it’s therapeutic for you when people find news stories of child-rapists, and start threads about how they would like to slowly torture and kill them? I’m not a psychiatrist, but that doesn’t sound too healthy to me. I would think getting yourself into a support group would be an infinitely better way to work on the healing process. I sincerely wish you the best of luck.
If there were no outrage toward rapists, I could see the importance of bringing it up. But it’s something that is so commonly known, I’m not seeing the point. It seems rather like starting a thread to say how much you hate Hitler - you simply aren’t going to get an argument from anyone.
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### Author:  [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-charged-with-raping-3-year-old-girl-sick-sick-sick/233939/20 "2004-03-15T09:07:10Z")
> [@blowero](#):
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> It seems rather like starting a thread to say how much you hate Hitler - you simply aren’t going to get an argument from anyone.
And so it will probably not run for pages. People will look in, agree that there are some truely sick fucks in the world and it will drop off the front page.
People take what they want from threads like this. I agree: they’re not looking for an argument, but it’s just registering disgust, and it’s in the right forum.
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