Sounds as if he has wasted a lot of money on defense attornys all he needed was this judge.

This story reflects how ingrained “whooping” is in Alabama’s culture. What other state not only shields schools from lawsuits over paddling injuries but also exempts teachers from child abuse statutes (as long as it’s not their own child they’ve beaten)?

If Thomas were a school principal, he could spank young men on a regular basis—legally and with the community’s support. Making them drop trou for the punishment might cross an unspoken line, but I defy anyone to cite a law or policy that it categorically violates. Besides, predators can tell which kids’ll be too intimidated to refuse such an order, or easily manipulated into going along with it, or even conditioned to accept it because they get the same treatment at home.

Victims would likely be too humiliated and self-blaming to tell anyone before until considerable time has passed, accusations would seem belated, and it seems easiest to just try to move on. And if a teacher was found out giving some bare-butt paddlings, the district would typically circle the wagons to defend him (absent less ambiguous forms of sexual abuse—to which spanking is sometimes a gateway).

Subverting discipline is easy when most parents are clueless about sexually abusive spanking and don’t warn kids about adults who may have bad reasons for wanting to spank them. I recall an elementary teacher in Brewton, AL was part of a child spanking pornography ring busted in 2002. Lucky he wasn’t a paddler at that school. (ref: http://www.nospank.net/101.htm)

If he is so innocent.. why not take the stand and say so. explain this stuff…?????

CAuse he is guilty as sin

Hmmmmm.  Ok, so I can believe either:

(a). A judge who liked to wear a bowtie, drove a pink Lexus, and liked to spank grown men had a creepy sex fetish and manipulated and abused the system in order to act on it – OR-

(b). Several grown black men conspired to bring public attention to the fact that they bent over for a man to spank their bare butts while he was erect, subjecting themselves to public mockery and embarrassment, all to get even with the system- not by conspiring against the white DA who prosecuted them or the cops who arrested them- but the black judge who repeatedly pulled strings to reduce their sentences and tried to help straighten them out. 

Yeah, I’m gonna go with (a).

And they got out of their jail cells,without supervision,to go anonymously “deposit fluids,” HOW? Pretty far-fetched there….but then I don’t have a criminally disenfranchised mind either.

Don’t let the DNA in the room fool you. It is more likely that the gentelemen involved placed the DNA in the room, with nobody else present, and as an act of rebellion and defiance against the system. It plays out better than than a middle finger towards the system. Think of the glory of being the one that deposited fluids in that fashion, in that location, and what an act of defiance and achievement it was. If you don’t have the mind set of a disinfranshised criminal, it will not make sense. If you look at it from their perspective, it was a real great accomplishment. Can you just hear them bragging- Let me tell you what I did and where I DID IT.

I think if the prosecution pulls out a paddle,gets a young convict before Hermie, and then the presiding judge orders “all rise,” that will tell the whole story.lol Just a thought….

Don’t know this many or any of his accussers but I can tell you that the way this case of falling apart doesn’t look good for the prosecution.

Dismiss all charges, one by one. Let the truth come out that they are just here to ruin the man’s reputation.

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