Stripper raped in Gastonia NC
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
Patrol officers say they caught a Gastonia man raping an exotic dancer in the back of a car in Cleveland County. The incident happened Dec. 21 in a church parking lot, according to investigators.
James Edward Locust has been charged with first-degree rape. According to investigators, another man witnessed the incident and reported it to officers who were passing by.
Here's what detectives say happened: Locust was at Leather & Lace in Gastonia on Dec. 20, a Saturday. He knew one of the dancers and agreed to give her a ride home after midnight, early Sunday morning.
Locust was intoxicated so he called a friend to give him and the 31-year-old dancer a ride home.
Investigators said that the agreement was that both Locust and the woman would go to their own homes, hers in Bessemer City and his in Gastonia.
While Locust's friend was driving, the dancer passed out from using drugs and alcohol, according to a detective with the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office. Locust started touching the woman and tried to take off her pants, investigators said.
The driver reportedly encouraged Locust to stop assaulting the woman several times. The man became so distraught that he got lost and pulled into a church parking lot on Oak Grove Road in Cleveland County around 1 a.m., according to the detective.
Officers who had been conducting a license check nearby drove down Oak Grove Road and saw the man outside of his car.
The man was sobbing and told police that Locust was raping a woman in his car. Officers opened the car door and saw Locust raping the unconscious woman, the detective said. Locust was detained, and officers had to aggressively work to revive the woman.
A warrant for Locust's arrest was issued Dec. 23, and he was arrested in Gaston County over the weekend.
Locust, 43, of South Willow Street, has prior convictions in North Carolina but none for violent crimes, according to the N.C. Department of Correction website. He has been convicted three times for DWI. Two of those convictions were this year. The other was nearly a decade ago.
James Edward Locust has been charged with first-degree rape. According to investigators, another man witnessed the incident and reported it to officers who were passing by.
Here's what detectives say happened: Locust was at Leather & Lace in Gastonia on Dec. 20, a Saturday. He knew one of the dancers and agreed to give her a ride home after midnight, early Sunday morning.
Locust was intoxicated so he called a friend to give him and the 31-year-old dancer a ride home.
Investigators said that the agreement was that both Locust and the woman would go to their own homes, hers in Bessemer City and his in Gastonia.
While Locust's friend was driving, the dancer passed out from using drugs and alcohol, according to a detective with the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office. Locust started touching the woman and tried to take off her pants, investigators said.
The driver reportedly encouraged Locust to stop assaulting the woman several times. The man became so distraught that he got lost and pulled into a church parking lot on Oak Grove Road in Cleveland County around 1 a.m., according to the detective.
Officers who had been conducting a license check nearby drove down Oak Grove Road and saw the man outside of his car.
The man was sobbing and told police that Locust was raping a woman in his car. Officers opened the car door and saw Locust raping the unconscious woman, the detective said. Locust was detained, and officers had to aggressively work to revive the woman.
A warrant for Locust's arrest was issued Dec. 23, and he was arrested in Gaston County over the weekend.
Locust, 43, of South Willow Street, has prior convictions in North Carolina but none for violent crimes, according to the N.C. Department of Correction website. He has been convicted three times for DWI. Two of those convictions were this year. The other was nearly a decade ago.
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The lesson here is to not pass out around peope you don't trust. I'm not sure what someone would do if she stayed passed out and you were the driver. Take her home? Take her to the hospital if you don't know where she lives? I wouldn't want to be stuck with a hospital bill. Unless I knew her, I wouldn't want to deal with her when she woke up.
I do remember a situation where I had some friends drinking with me in my college dorm and one girl passed out on my carpet. Her friends didn't want to leave her passed out in my room so they carried her. I said that wasn't necessary. I heard when she woke up and found out her friends carried her out she was mad. I can imagine how someone might easily think maybe someone wanted something to happen.
Before you come back with this, I don't think conservatives are pro-rape either. You know who is pro-rape? Rapists
what, no holier than thou indignation at ilbbaicnl’s bigoted post (which skibum609 was obviously mocking):
@ilbbaicnl: “I would have expected cops in a backwater Southern town to think a woman was "asking for it" if she was a stripper and/or intoxicated and/or accepting rides with dirtbagsâ€
or is it simply that Southerners, rednecks, hillbillies, coon asses, and christians are fair game for haterade? that is one high horse you are riding around on.
If we're going to play PC games... Yes, ilbbaicnl was pretty obnoxious right there. To be fair, at least some cops in both the backwoods and in big cities all tend to view drugged out strippers as fair game.
But if we're going to critique humor, I would say that I didn't catch onto the humor. You see, mockery tends to work better if there is a connection to reality. The problem here is that police anywhere aren't really progressive and neither progressives nor conservatives are pro-rape.
OK...since you asked nicely, I'll make a correction to skibum's joke to yield that connection to reality:
Yeah ilbbaicnl...backwoods cops can be like that. But good thing she wasn't in NYC. The cops that assraped Michael Mineo with a nightstick probably would have joined i!
Still not funny though...maybe it is 'cos rape ain't funny.
And yes, I'll disagree on the southern hate. Wtf ilbbaicnl?!
Dam.
I feel real bad for the stripper's holiday. Hopefully this tough lesson will better arm her for next year.
Those of us who have have a lot of tolerance for both sinners (which we all are in varying degrees) and for honest debate on the issues. A number of mainline denominations have taken courageous stands on things like the rights of LGBTs and their place in the Church. Stands that have cost us members! We took those stands because we believed them to be right.
I also will support your right to disagree with me. However, I would hope that you would not tar us all with the same brush.
wow! when i read skibum609’s post i see mockery used as an insult. you however assume it is used as humor. that is really fucked up. try this one:
if you progressives ever manage to take over again are you going to put the jews and the christians in the same railroad cars together or will you be segregating them into separate cars?
I understand well the word, cajun. Cajun is a corruption of the French word, Acadien. An 'Acadien' is a resident of L'Acadie, the French speaking areas of Canada's Maritime provinces (primarily New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). Les Acadiens who were expelled from Canada after the British defeat of the French on the Plains of Abraham refused to swear allegiance to the crown. The expulsion was a handy way for the Brits to rid themselves of disaffected new subjects. The expulsion also freed up much land for the Brits to grant to loyalists as a reward for their loyalty.
I've never heard of the term "coonass"'either. I did not know it referred to Cajuns.
Reading the etymology of the word was interesting. The origins are obscure, but several ideas are proposed.
Although that is my general feeling that most groups are pretty diverse, it is interesting to see a particular strain of American conservative emerge in some recent posts. There seems to be a lot of paranoia in this group. Unless they're joking, these conservatives don't just feel that modern progressives (which have essentially no power in modern American politics) aren't just wrong on policy issues but that they are EVIL.
Yep...progressives are actually Nazis who are out to kill good conservatives, enslave puppies, and force good conservative men to eat apple pies that have been defiled in a manner akin to the movie "American Pie". DoctorPhil's world must be a very scary place...fortunately he KNOWS who is out to get him. I just hope that whackjob isn't going to lose it and go all postal on a Progressive insurance agent someday. SMH
And please don't forget the Muslim Arabs and their own black brothers who sold those people to the white, Christian traders in the first place.
Esta, the point of all of this is to eliminate the hate and recognize the parts that all of our ancestors played, both good and bad. From here on, it's up to us to do better, whatever our faith or lack of it.
I hardly hear from most Caucasians an open and honest discussion about slavery. Instead of holding the accountable groups accountable, they throw in the blacks sold their own people into slavery.
Nobody talks about the fact that American slavery WAS race based and inherited at birth. African slavery was not great by any means but was temporary, like indentured servitude.
@Atacdawg-I appreciate the fact that you have honest facts about real, historical people.
More than 40% of all slaves brought to the western hemisphere from Africa went to Brazil. Brazil did not abolish slavery until 1888. The slave labour was used on the massive coffee plantations in Brazil. At the end of the Civil War some 10,000 southerners moved to Brazil to continue the lifestyle of slave ownership.
One interesting note on the difference between Northern and Southern European attitudes toward race was race mixing. The Mediterranean people mixed it up while the Northern folk did not. Maybe it's due to the history of the Mediterranean and different peoples who populated the area.
@farmerart “Slavery existed in Europe before the European colonization of North America. The Portuguese started importing slaves from Africa in the mid-1400s.â€
and more European slaves moved towards Africa via the Moors than African slaves ever moved towards Europe. there were Irish and Cornish pirates who specialised in providing English and European slaves to the Moorish markets well into the 1600s (later to become a musical "The Pirates of Penzance").
However, I would like to help you. With most people you'll want to be circumspect about admitting your coprophilia. Try substituting something that most of society finds pleasant.
For example, when talking to your buddies you might say "I was up all night last evening...I went out and paid a streetwalker to take a big...uh...plant a big flower on my face. Ain't nothing i dig more than a good Hot Kar...uh...hot petunia!".
That way nobody will catch onto your obsession with feces!
P.S. do stay away from me though. I won't judge you but I don't want to shake your hand after you've been putting 'em in shit.
The cognitive dissonance necessary to maintain his world view is probably the thing that drove him to his coprophilia. I feel sorry for him...
USA slave traders continued the slave trade in defiance of USA laws and in defiance of the Royal Navy which had been tasked by the British government with interdicting the Africa-North/South America slave trade. A robust adult bought for $25 in Africa could be sold by a slave trader for $500 in Brazil or for even more at an illegal auction in USA.
Some great American fortunes were made in this trade of human beings.
i don’t think that Moorish slaver trader blood flowing through your body is getting to your brain. farmerart’s point was that Europe imported African slaves to Europe before they began the trade to the Americas.
“The Portuguese started importing slaves from Africa in the mid-1400s.â€
ever hear that Columbus sailed to the Americas in 1492 which coincidentally came after the mid-1400s? dumbass. i didn’t switch anything but commented specifically about his point. dumbass.
@zipman68
oh my. more derision from comicbookguy. i’m so......so.....so ROTFLMFAO
facts do not cease to exist because you want to ignore them.
you're nothing but a cunt zipman, always were, always will be, but a dumb cunt is good fun, and i'm just ragging on a you because you’ve been behaving like a jumped up little internet prick with no sense of humour and in desperate need of some KFC shoved up your bunghole to sort yourself out. but seriously comicbookguy, besides yourself there are maybe 15 other people who even bother to read the shit you post, so why do you invest so much time and energy trying to change the thinking of people who are mostly:
a) better educated than you?
b) more experienced in the world than you?
c) smarter than you?
d) more discerning than you?
e) infinitely more interesting than you?
now i’m sure you have a star trek party to get ready for (is anyone else coming btw?) so i’ll let you go work on your costume now. dumbass
The fact that these things exist in OUR time and in OUR countries is our shame and our responsibility. The rat bastards who run these pieces of hell need to be run to ground and put away for a very long time.
"How come when the topic of slavery comes up, it's always that the blacks sold their own people into slavery...
I hardly hear from most Caucasians an open and honest discussion about slavery. Instead of holding the accountable groups accountable, they throw in the blacks sold their own people into slavery.
Nobody talks about the fact that American slavery WAS race based and inherited at birth."
Hit the nail on the head here.
I'm going to be truthful with you regarding my motives because:
1. You may actually be a touch introspective and see an alternative point of view.
2. You may respond in a manner that gives me the lulz.
Who am I kidding...I'd bet a pretty penny on #2. You've given no indication that you can respond with anything other than anger and obfuscation.
So why do I "argue" with some of the posters (i.e., those you allege to be my superiors). Simple, I'm interested in their perspective. Just because I disagree with with a perspective and may even (in some cases) consider it fundamentally illogical doesn't mean I'm not intrigued by said perspective. If you think I'm trying to convert people you're mistaken.
However, since my prediction is that you'll respond in a manner that will give me some lulz I'll share a few observations:
1. You excoriated me for being a nerd with no social life by posting fairly late on a night when many people with actual social lives are out socializing. What's up with that?
2. You state that only 15 TUSCL posters read my posts. How many regular posters do you think there are? For the sake of this argument, count Juice (bless his crazy lil' pervo heart) as one person. You seem to be saying that a high proportion of regular posters read my stuff. Thanks for the compliment!
3. You seem obsessed with pointing out that, in your opinion, many posters are superior to me in a variety of attributes. Why did you feel compelled to do so?
The last of those points would appear to reflect either a clumsy attempt to goad me into responding with some description of my credentials (which you would then dismiss) or an expression of your own desperate need to feel superior. If the latter I suspect it reflects the fact that you actually feel insecure. Perhaps you have not accomplished as much in life as you thought you would when you were young.
So I'll share some helpful advice. True validation is internal. Just focus on the things that make you happy when ever you feel blue.
But do dial back the haterade...rage isn't good for the soul.
I would also say that the South (again, taken as a whole!) got over the segregation/prejudice thing a lot faster than the North did - they were able to admit there was a problem in the first place.
I remember several housing related incidents on Long Island in the early 70s when I was going to college.
Can anybody guess what the most segregated hour of the week is today? The hour we spend in church. Is that a formal thing. No, our Presbyterian congregation has a few black members, a couple of mixed families, and newcomers are always welcomed. Brian Blunt is an African-American (there it is, creeping in again - he is an American!) man who is the president of Union Seminary in Richmond and one of the best preachers I have ever heard. Still, there are basically white churches, black churches, Hispanic churches, Korean churches, etc within our denomination; it's much the same in the Methodist and Baptist churches, but not in the Catholic church, probably because people are "assigned" to a congregation in their area.
The whole thing makes me pretty sad.
"@Atacdawg-You brought up the truth. We have more slavery now than ever yet it's a moot point for most folks. We've talked about human trafficking before. I've even called ICE on a sweatshop in downtown LA."
I knew you were one of the good guys.
A few points:
1. Slavery in USA was based on race. This was not true for other societies. The ancient Romans, for example, enslaved a lot of people, mostly whites like themselves.
2. Quaker Christians in Pennsylvania were the first group I know of that condemned slavery as an institution and worked to abolish it.
3. The British outlawed the slave trade (and enforced it through their navy) in response to political pressures by mainly Christian opponents of slavery.
4. Some of American's founding fathers opposed slavery. Ben Franklin became an opponent, and Alexander Hamilton (a conservative) joined anti-slavery efforts. Jefferson was against slavery on an intellectual level, but disappointingly he owned slaves his whole life.
5. The American abolitionists were overwhelmingly Christian. Read the words to The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
6. After the Civil War, America did not live up to its obligations to the freed slaves. Blacks were subjected to discriminatory laws and prejudices that prevented them from realizing the American dream.
You'll not see the south looking the other way when 30 black churches are firebombed anymore. History is what it is, but we can all change.
I will echo this sentiment to some extent. I grew up in the northeast, and I never realized just exactly how racist my family and friends were until I moved south. There may be more *virulent* racists in the south, but northern racism is more widespread, if not as open and violent.