SALINE CO.—This post is going to piss off a certain segment of our readers, and for that I apologize.
But I can’t help it….because we’ve come across this before, and it gets more disturbing every time we hear it.
Maria Rector, doing the stupid "duck lips" thing in the bathroom mirror
While courthouse crawling today, we encountered the charges against one Maria Rector, 24, who is accused of having intercourse as well as several other sex acts with her own stepson, RAR, from November 2009 to April 2010. RAR’s date of birth is listed as 07.30.95. Charges don’t indicate where the alleged sexual acts took place.
But as soon as we read the material, we recognized the initials of the “victim” as well as the date of birth. These also belong to the “victim” in the case of Shannon Burton, convicted sex offender from Carrier Mills who entered a plea of guilty in August 2010 to a July 2009 incident of sex with RAR, d.o.b. 07.30.95. Burton, then in her late 30s, was caught having sex with RAR by a male friend, back when RAR was but 14 years old. And in fact, we know, through contact with the family, that this is the SAME RAR.
Burton mug
Tammi "Syrup Girl" Collins' 2010 ISP Sex Offender Registry photo
Now. What gives here? Is it that we have a 14-year-old boy who is just being victimized willy-nilly by older, horny women? Or do we have a 14-year-old boy who is oversexualized for his age—probably, judging by some of the company he kept when he visited Carrier Mills (which included another “victim” of another horny woman, the woman being Tammi “Syrup Girl” Collins, another convicted Saline County sex offender), just going along with the crowd—and is acting out with whomever would be willing? Is he sending out hints that he wants such activity? is he being overt and coming on to the ladies? Or, as charges seem to indicate, is he just the naive little waif who is put-upon by sex-starved women, now, one of them being his own daddy’s young wife?
Whatever the case, there’s been precedent set in southern Illinois.
Just a few years ago, we came across three sex offenders in Jasper County who, over a year’s time, had offended with the SAME 13-year-old girl. The first story was plausible: the girl was indeed victim of abuse at the hands of her mom’s boyfriend, an older gent who had been practicing his brand of perversion since he himself was a young kid, this per one of his childhood victims who sat down with us and told us the horror story about it. We thought that was going to be the end of it, when the dude was sent to prison. However, as the months unfolded, it turned out that yet another man, whose relationship with the girl was unclear (turned out he lived down the road from her and her family, but, he wasn’t Mom’s or anyone else’s bf), was arrested and charged with sexual activity with the girl…and then a third man, who also lived in the neighborhood, was arrested and charged within a couple of months after that. We got hold of the original source on the story and asked her to confirm that this was indeed the same girl in all three cases. She confirmed that it was, but would not confirm that there was something bizarre going on, like maybe the three dirty old guys were passing this 13-year-old kid around against her will.
And then, we learned the horrid truth: it turned out that the 13-year-old girl just liked dirty old guys…and when her mom found out each time, she’d march the girl off to the authorities, and the dirty old guys would go off to DOC.
Now, I’m not gonna pass judgment here. And I’m not going to take up for ANYONE who has sexual contact, or even ATTEMPTS to have sexual contact, with a child of any age. Contrary to what Arthur Knackmus believes, THAT is the definition of “pervert,” and a woman the age of any of these shown here should know that, regardless of how strong a hot little teenage boy comes on to them….they just need to have some backbone, tell the kid “get away from me,” and if he doesn’t, make sure THEY DO. It should be easy for people, men AND women, to “just say no” to that kind of thing. But unfortunately, so many don’t.
But what about these little kids (and make no mistake…we’ve seen the pics of RAR on his Facebook, and even though he’s lying about his age saying he’s two years older than he is, he still LOOKS LIKE and IS a LITTLE KID) is making them think that sex at that age, with people considerably older than they, is acceptable?
The short answer would be ‘society.’ A couple of years ago, every time we turned around, there were TV shows on innocuous stations like The Disney Channel glorifying sexualized CHILDREN, in sexual situations that they were nowhere near the ages they should be when engaging in such things. We began using parental controls on the TV to lock out certain stations every time we saw something objectionable. When it got to the point where all that was left were the news channels (and even then it was questionable), we just dumped satellite altogether and a few months later, TV as well. On TV, one of the most destructive forces ever to invade Western (or any) society, it’s everywhere: “16 & Pregnant” is probably the most repugnant thing I’ve ever heard of. I mean, why NOT “14 & Horny,” right? Because there are plenty of PERVERTS of both sexes very willing.
So. Sorry to RAR’s family. But someone needs to get control of that boy, because there’s obviously a problem there. Don’t be surprised if, like the kid in Jasper County, a third ”sex offender” pops up. And maybe a fourth. I’m not justifying them. But there are others involved in this, like RAR’s siblings…and his father, who’s in prison…and this may not be the end of the families being torn apart by something that’s obviously all too rampant in this part of our little corner of the world.