A Boynton Beach police officer was just found not guilty
after he offered a stranded 20-year-old girl a ride home and was accused of
bringing her to an empty field and brutally raping her at gunpoint.
Officer Stephen Maiorino, 35, was charged with armed sexual
battery, armed kidnapping and unlawful compensation or reward for official
behavior last year after police discovered his disgusting actions on the night
of October 15.
The victim, a 20-year-old woman, was left stranded downtown
after a friend she was riding with was arrested on DUI charges. According to
the police report, Maiorino offered the young woman a ride to the station so
she could wait for someone to pick her up.
At this point, a waking nightmare began for the young woman
in Maiorino’s car. Maiorino did drive her to the police station, but when she
tried to get out of the car, he grabbed her and told her that if she didn’t
perform oral sex on him, he would arrest her, according to the police report.
Obviously fearful of this psycho cop, she agreed, and the
officer drove off 20 blocks north of the department, which is located near the
intersection of Seacrest and Boynton Beach boulevards, to an abandoned field.
Maiorino then held the young woman at gunpoint and forced
her to strip naked. He then forced her to the hood of his car and raped her,
according to the report. She said she was facedown, held in place on the hood
with his right hand. During the assault, she told police, she looked back at
her attacker and saw the gun in his left hand.
Investigators found the condom Maiorino used to allegedly
rape the woman in the field the next day.
According to the report, when Maiorino was finished raping
the woman, he told her that if she told anyone, he would kill her and her
family.
On Tuesday, the cries of the alleged victim, his 21-year-old
accuser, filled the courtroom as the words “not guilty” were read out loud.
According to the Sun-Sentinel, she wailed, “No! No!” before
her dad held her as she stumbled out the door. She screamed and cried out,
“Why?” before being helped onto an elevator.
The defense’s case was that this hero veteran police officer
messed up and had consensual sex while on duty last October.
Maiorino never had to take the stand.
His entire case was based on building him up while breaking
down and discrediting the young woman. The defense claimed that the woman only
fabricated this story as to later attempt to get money from the department.
Unlike Maiorino, the woman did take the stand. “That would
make me the most evil human being in the whole world,” she said, calling the
allegations a fabrication “a disgusting thing to do to ruin someone’s whole
life.”
The defense went on to say that the young woman craved sex
on the patrol car “perhaps to be cool.”
They used a photo of her in high school posing on the hood
of a car in a “strikingly similar position” as proof that she was lying about
the rape.
Despite their entire case relying on defaming a young woman,
the jury sided with the cop — likely for obvious reasons.
That’s incredible. Photo of a girl posing on the hood of a car can justify a rapist in future. Girl’s words meant less for trial than Maiorino’s silence (he haven’t to take the stand). This is police officer’s privilege – the uniform makes him look safe or at least he can order you to anything because you have to cooperate with police – there were many cases when cops were justified even after murders when the victim didn’t listen for cop’s orders. So police can afford all kinds of bad crimes legally. That’s unbelievable.
So much for you pretense of being reasonable. I can’t believe you have the nerve to lecture me about ‘rudeness‘ but encourage murder.
Yeah, I told a future infantryman something that he’ll hear a thousand times in Basic Training.
I’m certainly not encouraging murder, but rather destroying an enemy that is threshing your life and the life of your team.
Go take your radfem tears somewhere else, friend.
I know he’s joining the army and it’s still murder.
Also how is me telling ernie he looks like a muppet worse than what men do in the military?
I’m not the one crying over muppet references.
Men and women, don’t forget there are women who also defend this country…..
How about you just scoot along child and go play in the sand somewhere else
Yeah and male soliders treat their female colleagues so terribly. Males soliders are really disrespectful of women no matter where they are from.
Besides the original post was about Ernie posing with guns and threatening women online. Stay on topic.
Am I supposed to ignore his behaviour because he defended ‘this country‘ which isn’t even my country.
I fail to see how threatening women online and believing himself to be a woman and pushing himself into feminism is relevant to defending any country but ok if you buy into the military propaganda.
PS. American soldiers have come to my country and raped the local women (like they do everywhere) so I don’t see the military as ‘defenders of freedom’.
When johns pay to have access to women who don’t actually want anything to do with them and need money to survive and feed their families. They are basically pulling a real life scarpia ultimatum. When johns do the real life equivalent to what rapey villians do they don’t have much of a defence for their actions.
the more mra’s try to tell us what is and isn’t “real rape,” the more convinced I become that they’re arguing from a guilty conscience
Probably not so much “guilty” as “not wanting to suffer any kind of consequences or even have a reason to question their behavior so they can proceed without caution”, but yes.
Here’s a thought: if your personal issues or selfishness gets in the way of calling out rapists in your own community, you should not be in charge of running an anti-rape rally.
This should go without saying, and yet not one but TWO of the organizers of my local Slutwalk have issues with this and that’s fucking inexcusable. If you actively hurt rape survivors and protect rapists, you don’t get to call yourself an anti-rape activist.
More serious than this blog is meant to be, but my Portland girls need to know what is going on.
wait i live in portland,whats goin on?????
Serious allegations from initially one woman, and now several have come out against a well known male member of our PDX stripping community. These women have attempted to talk about this with another woman of our community, only to seemingly have it fall on deaf ears as she has continued an associated and friendship with this man, indeed having him volunteer at last years Slutwalk, a movement aimed specifically against rape culture and sexual violence against women. With this information coming out more and more women have come out saying they were met with the same indifference, from the same woman, about the same man, and about other men in our community, including one I have had personal experience and know that the allegations against him are true.
I do not know the other woman personally, but I am told she has also been confided in and reacted in a similar manner.
I fully understand the emotional difficulties that come with serious stories from women you don’t know well, and even from women you do know well, but this is why I have not built myself a public platform like these women have.
I do not go on stage giving heartfelt speeches about why women should not be afraid or ashamed of what has happened to them, I do not make women through out the city feel like I am someone who will understand and listen. I will of course always listen to my dear friends, but I understand and accept that can not emotionally deal with these stories day in and day out. This matters because this is the exact reason this woman gave for not being supportive, for not speaking out, for not giving someone she called “dear to her” courage, and for not warning against this man.To refuse to speak out is to continue to put the women you call friends in danger.
I call on these women to use their platforms to open discussion about this, not to hide behind apologies or excuses. You have created your public platform, it is your moral obligation to speak out or step down.
I myself have NOT built a public platform because I know that I am not emotionally capable. If I were to build a public platform, I would not use my own emotional issues as an excuse not to use it when other women are in need. All I have is a somewhat popular humor blog and I am using it to make sure other girls in my community have some sense of what is being discussed currently only on private pages and behind the scenes.
I personally, am too afraid of backlash to come forth publicly. I know this, and again it is why I have not built myself a platform. The man I had experience with, like many abusers and users in my community, hides behind friends who will defend them no matter what others say, much like how people will defend Bill Cosby despite a dozen women having the courage to speak out. I do not know how to open this discussion myself, I do not know what to say. All I have are the facts, and I am hurt, angered, confused, and sickened by them. And I am afraid for other women in my community, my friends, my coworkers, and the many I may never meet.
This is such bullshit and it is not okay.
Slutwalk as a “movement” has its issues with racism and lack of diversity but Portland’s slutwalks, the last two having been organised by two rape apologist sex workers who actively undermine other women they work with, defend rapists, and refuse to accept any criticism of their actions to the point where they deliberately threaten other women to silence them–
Portland Slutwalk is little more than a self-aggrandizing movement to make these women feel like “feminist activists” at the expense of ACTUAL community, solidarity, and the safety of other women and sex workers.
PLEASE spread this around: this is not okay. It’s TOTALLY unacceptable, in fact.
Not shocked at all. This is why I am a radical feminist.
“The Safe Campus Act, originally sponsored by Republican Reps. Matt Salmon of Arizona, and Pete Sessions and Kay Granger of Texas, would prohibit colleges and universities from punishing a student accused of sexual assault and battery unless the reporting victim also goes to police with the complaint…
Under the Safe Campus Act, colleges would still be allowed to punish a student for illegal acts like selling drugs, stealing or physical assault regardless of police involvement, but sexual assault and battery would be off limits unless the reporting victim goes to cops in addition to school administrators.”
Sponsored by Republicans. Of course it is.
They want to silence victims. They know most are afraid to go to the police because the police are hostile and don’t want to help. It’s not a safe campus, not for women, it’s only making it safe for rapists. This is terrifying.
“The Safe Campus Act, originally sponsored by Republican Reps. Matt Salmon of Arizona, and Pete Sessions and Kay Granger of Texas, would prohibit colleges and universities from punishing a student accused of sexual assault and battery unless the reporting victim also goes to police with the complaint…
Under the Safe Campus Act, colleges would still be allowed to punish a student for illegal acts like selling drugs, stealing or physical assault regardless of police involvement, but sexual assault and battery would be off limits unless the reporting victim goes to cops in addition to school administrators.”
I wonder how these radfems are going to react to a rape victim telling them to stop.
I try to stay sooo far away from grossness like this but I can’t right now because this is vile.
First off, do you think there are no radfem rape victims? Many, if not most of the radfems I know are rape victims and it’s absurd that you’re brining something like that up as a trump card.
Secondly, how is that relevant? If your disagreement was about rape then sure, only rape survivors should comment, but even then I don’t see how it connects to radical feminism?
I mean this is a reach, I actually can’t believe that you’re using rape as a way to silence people who you disagree with. Like do you really care about “winning” this much? I am disgusted.
Hey decembercat I’m a radfem and also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. From one survivor to another don’t pull this kind of shit it’s low. If you have an issue then state what your you take issue with don’t make these kinds of posts.
Celtyradfem 