To Ann and the rest of feminisiting, thank you, for your incredible reporting and great links. I share when I can to my not so in tune females who think the world according to women is perfect. Gee, to think a girl could be molested and put in prison for it. I have two sons. The power is where women wake up and raise their sons appropriatly in a sophistocated manner. As if their hormones and ours are REALLY that different!

That poor girl. I can't imagine her recovery will go well given her mother's idea of support.

This reminds me of a friend on mine and my sister's. She had had family problems worse than us and we lost touch with her, but then my sister ran into her years later. Anyway she was talking to my mom and mentioned how she had fought with her abusive step-father so she ran away and stayed with some guy friends (she was like 12). They, or some of them, ended up raping her.

She told her mom about it, and her mom replied, "so what do you want me to do about it?". As if being vindictive for her running away.

My ex-girlfriend did a fair amount of research on material witness statutes about a year ago. They're really bad news. I had no idea they could be used for something like this, though. That's horrible.

material witness warrants are valid law enforcement techniques to force noncompliant witnesses/victims to testify.

they are rarely used. the above type of case is an example where they would be

nobody has the 'right' not to testify in court, or to avoid a subpoena. nobody. a suspect has the right not to incriminate himself, but other than that, no MATERIAL WITNESS has that right

it sux she got arrested, but the state has a compelling interest in prosecuting violent sex offenders.

i can't understand why people think material witness warrants are 'bad news'.

Is nobody here questioning why the girl ran away? I know she is young, and that is not right to put her in prison - but there was a valid reason for this.

The girl should have testified rather than flaked, it would have been in her best interests and the interests of her community to have done so.

It probably wasn't the best experience but the girl didn't sound that traumatized, and even went as far to say she was 'well treated' in prison.

I think it is unfair to criticize her mother for saying what she said - it is clear she loves her daughter, but if the 14-year-old is off the rails, obviously she wants something to give her a shock - we cannot molly coddle children - they need to accept responsibility for their actions.

In this context she ran away from testifying and ended up in prison - a good lesson to learn.

I'm rather confused by the comments from E, the girl was molested and obviously ran away because she didn't want to have to recount her ordeal, that seems pretty clear to me so throwing her in jail rather than providing support and counselling is not a good lesson to learn - in fact i can see it preventing girls reporting these crimes in the future. How are you supposed to sound traumatized? Not everyone curls into a quivering ball of emotions.

there needs to be consistency in rule of law. there is a very compelling public interest in prosecuting child molestors. if and when the state becomes aware that such a criminal act occurs, and that the victim is material witness to this crime, the interest of society in prosecuting this interest trump the desires of the victim not to testify . period

And in believing that you seem to be completely overlooking the fact that the witness is a child that needs be protected.

I am not sure if anyone here has been raped and understand what it does to a person both mentally and physically.

It is obvious that the girl ran away because she did not want to relive the ordeal. She is, afterall, a frightened 14 year old who has been through something traumatic.

This is something the courts should have taken into consideration. Putting a 14yr old girl into an ADULT prison is punishing the victim. It does not help anyone.

I don't believe this girl merely "flaked" on her responsibility or was trying to cause trouble. She was doing what many young girls do in this kind of situation.

But, the fact of the matter is is that running away is not an appropriate response and accomplishes nothing for her or society at large.

Perhaps there could have been a better solution in this instance, would you have preferred that she was referred to in patient psychiatric care? While she may have had more freedoms and better decor than in Adult prison, there is the possibility of unnecessary medication. Regardless, it is in the victims best interest that she does psychologically recover from this incident, and part of the recovery process involves coming to terms with what happened. Running away isn't the best solution, neither is avoiding "reliving" the attack. It is through revisiting the attack in her mind, that she will in fact come to terms with it...and I think that the jail time possibly aided in her recovery. If she is a resilient and sane woman, she will realise that it isn't punishment, but it is in fact an opportunity to grow.

while the de facto reality is that they may seem to "punish" the victims, material witness warrants are not executed to punish anybody.

they are executed to further the cause of justice by ensuring that hostile witnesses/victims do not renege on their legal responsibility to testify

yes, it sucks that she was 14. yes, the warrant SEEMS harsh. it sux. but it is the only valid tool that law enforcement has in circumstances like this.

the child was protected. there are very strict laws that require segregation of children from adult prisoner populations.

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