# Why only three counts of rape? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 12, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-three-counts-of-rape/658168 "2013-05-12T19:30:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-three-counts-of-rape/658168/21 "2013-05-14T15:12:40Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I wonder if - and this is just sheer conjecture - because the child has no birth certificate with a father listed and he hadn’t, one assumes, filled out an affidavit of paternity, that they can charge him with kidnapping because the one known and affirmed parent at the time the child was being held didn’t want him holding the child. If she could have taken the child out of the home, she would have, so the child was being held captive as much as a snatched child, only from the moment of her birth. Was the child enrolled in school? No. So then, the child was held captive from day one. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-three-counts-of-rape/658168/22 "2013-05-14T15:36:49Z")
The child is supposed to be in school from birth? ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-three-counts-of-rape/658168/23 "2013-05-14T15:47:01Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The child is supposed to be in school from birth? LOL, obviously not. Thanks for pointing out my fucked up sentence construction. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-three-counts-of-rape/658168/24 "2013-05-14T16:48:29Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I wonder if - and this is just sheer conjecture - because the child has no birth certificate with a father listed and he hadn’t, one assumes, filled out an affidavit of paternity, that they can charge him with kidnapping because the one known and affirmed parent at the time the child was being held didn’t want him holding the child. If she could have taken the child out of the home, she would have, so the child was being held captive as much as a snatched child, only from the moment of her birth. DNA testing has proven him the father. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-three-counts-of-rape/658168/25 "2013-05-14T17:48:23Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > On the same track - why four kidnapping charges? The three women are obvious, but I’m surprised that there is a kidnapping charge for the kid. > > I mean, I know it’s sick, but the child never lived anywhere else - how could it be kidnapped? I think “criminal confinement” is a better way to define what happened here than “kidnapping,” but there may not be such a law on the books in Ohio. I believe criminal confinement is a subset of kidnapping. IANAL ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-three-counts-of-rape/658168/26 "2013-05-14T20:25:08Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > In addition? That’d teach the fucker a lesson. Indeed. I think they should execute him as many times as he raped these women. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-only-three-counts-of-rape/658168.md?page=1)