I suppose this could happen anywhere, but things like this seem to occur with regularity and particularly flagrant stupidity near my home town.
\nThe front page article in this weekend’s Paducah Sun concerned the trial of a local County Attorney and his wife, who were charged with a variety of misdeeds, including providing alcohol to minors, attempting to conceal evidence from this police, attempting to use influence to prevent a police investigation, and most lurid of all, an “unlawful pelvic exam”.
\nTheir teenage son was quite unpopular, so they decided to throw a huge keg party following homecoming to boost his social standing (country logic right there). When the party of 80+ teens got out of control (surprise, surprise) and word spread that one intoxicated girl had been raped, the mother (a registered nurse) inspected the girl’s nether regions without her consent, thus eliminating any possibility of a rape kit being performed. Then they concealed the entire incident (including from the parents of the possible sexual assault victim), and the husband tried to use his connections to stall a police investigation.
\nOn the stand, the mother said something to the effect that she was doing what a “good parent” would.
\nThey got off on all counts, except for those related to buying the keg. Good parents, y’all. <\/p>\n