Kourtney Joy Babcock is a 19-year-old drug addled pervert I never got around to blogging about although other crime blogs like Shadowscope and Dead Kids of MySpace did if you’re unfamiliar with the story. Here’s a story quick summary of the case from the Newton Daily News:

(MCT) — The Yarmouth, Ill., woman accused of having sex with two Mediapolis boys reportedly told detectives she did not remember what happened during the alleged encounters because she had taken drugs and alcohol.

Kourtney Joy Babcock, 19, formally was charged Wednesday with three counts of third-degree sexual abuse. Each carries a potential penalty of 10 years in prison upon conviction along with other special sentencing guidelines such as lifetime supervision and sex offender registry requirements.

According to a July 16 interview with Des Moines County Sheriff’s detectives, Babcock said she was under the influence of Oxycodone and Oxycontin and alcohol during the visits with the boys earlier that same month.

She could not say “if they did or did not happen,” but recalled she kissed and made out with the 13-year-old, authorities said.

The investigation involving inappropriate sexual contact the woman allegedly had with the boys started when the mother of the 12-year-old reported her suspicions to authorities.

On July 6, the mother came to the sheriff’s office with her 12-year-old son, who said that four days earlier, he along with his 13-year-old brother and some friends were at his Mediapolis home watching television in the basement.

Babcock, who also was present in the basement, went to a room with the 12-year-old and began taking off her clothes.

The boy alleges Babcock talked him into having sex, which they did. He told detectives it was his first time.

Another 13-year-old — not the 12-year-old’s brother — also spoke with detectives and said he, too, has had sex with the woman.

Allegedly at midnight on July 1, Babcock went to the Mediapolis home where the 13-year-old was spending the night, authorities said.

And, much like the 12-year-old’s contention, the other boy reportedly told authorities Babcock talked him into having sex. He, too, said it was his first time.

During a separate interview with detectives, Babcock reportedly admitted to being in the Mediapolis home, but that it was the 13-year-old who started making sexual remarks toward her.

She insisted she told the boy having sex with him was not a good idea because she could get in trouble for it. She, however, told detectives the drugs and alcohol “had a massive effect on her and (may have) caused her to do things without thinking.”

Babcock, court papers indicate, said she and the 13-year-old went to a fireworks show July 3 in Sperry where they allegedly held hands and kissed.

Intriguing. When this story first broke I actually did a short interview (via Facebook) with Babcock in which she made the same sorts of statements, but actually was leaning more toward claiming the boys took advantage of her. When I asked for clarification as to why she was drunk and high with children in the first place she responded, and I’m paraphrasing here, with “shut up, that’s why.”

I point that little exchange out mainly to show the many backseat bloggers out there who constantly carp about me only caring about “the cop’s side” of the story that contacting some pervert to get her side of the story rarely leads anywhere. Of course, this exchange was ultimately worthless since I decided not to bother with what I thought was more up other bloggers’ respective alleys and waited for her sentencing so I could bang out a quick Victimless Crime File and be on my merry way. Being that our communication was via Facebook, I never “un-friended” her since even child raping Obamunists should be updated when I post something on Red Alerts.

If only for my advertisers’ sake.

Long story short, my sister-in-law complained to me the other day that one of our mutual “friends” tends to post risque photos of herself. I said that was nonsense, but frankly I wouldn’t know since I don’t really look at the photos people post on their profiles if they aren’t in some way involved in promoting my websites. I hate to break the illusion, but I don’t actually socially network on social networks, so I just got around to checking in on the photos all those “friends” of mine have been uploading and, the gods being humorous sorts, I found the contrite and victimized Babcock (who of course is not some child molesting pervert) uploading photos of her being pawed by some douche while a toddler watches.

Here’s another pic of her and her new beau feeling frisky without concern for the toddler in the shot:

She has worse. Sans her history, these photos would be nothing more than a new entry on Fail Blog. But remember, Kourtney Joy Bacock is, as far as I know, still out on bond for raping at least two children.

Who is letting a woman who is likely on her way to jail for molesting children babysit with her new boyfriend and a digital camera? Does this sound like a great idea?

Update: D.K.O.M. has uncovered video of Babcock with her friends where she laughs about molesting her victim! Skip to 3:11

The person who uploaded the video is a young girl who also likes to upload videos of herself getting high and informational videos about her breast augmentation. I wonder how she paid for them.

As disgusting as Babcock’s insouciance for child molestation is what’s worse is that she’s surrounded by people who think what she did is funny and continue to enable her sexual dysfunction and drug abuse.

Who could have seen that coming? Not the judges presiding over the case against Joseph H. Gardner. Prosecutors wanted Gardner’s bail to be set at $200,000 but Plymouth District Court Judge Thomas F. Brownell decided to set bail at a measly $10,000. Gardner’s bail was apparently not even revoked when he got caught driving drunk.

From Boston.com:

PLYMOUTH – A man arraigned yesterday on charges that he sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl in Kingston on Friday had been charged this summer with raping another child but was free on bail.

Joseph H. Gardner, 26, of Kingston, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Plymouth District Court to a charge that he raped the daughter of a woman he was dating.

In the earlier alleged rape, the self-described construction worker was freed on $10,000 cash bail – far less than Plymouth prosecutors sought – on Sept. 15. He had been charged with breaking into the Kingston house of a distant relative and raping a 6-year-old girl.

“I always wonder why we let people out who are charged with such crimes,’’ Kingston Police Chief Joseph Rebello said angrily to reporters outside the courtroom. “Obviously, someone who has this type of background is no one that can be rehabilitated, and letting him loose in society only means we are going to have further victims.’’

The mother of the first alleged victim attended the arraignment and also assailed the decision to release Gardner.

“I don’t understand why he is still out,’’ she said, referring to the bail granted after the first arrest. “I think the courts should make sure he goes away and is not allowed to be around kids.’’

I don’t understand why he was out either. Judges in Massachusetts are supposed to take into account the dangerousness of the indivdual in bail hearings, and Gardner is clearly dangerous. But this process fell apart as usual when Liberal judges promoted hug-a-thug justice over public safety:

Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said Gardner faced “heinous allegations’’ in the first arrest and that prosecutors were disappointed that Plymouth District Court Judge Thomas F. Brownell set bail at $10,000 instead of the $200,000 they originally sought.

After Gardner’s indictment, the first rape case was transferred to Superior Court, where prosecutors again requested high bail – $150,000. But Judge Joseph M. Walker III kept bail at $10,000, and Gardner remained free.

Depending on the circumstances, Cruz said, judges typically impose a range of bail amounts in sexual assault cases. In some instances, he said, judges have released rape suspects on their own recognizance.

Judges are typically barred from speaking about pending cases.

Jack M. Atwood, a Plymouth lawyer whom McColloch works for and who represented Gardner on the first rape charges, did not return phone calls.

John G. Swomley, a Boston defense lawyer who has represented many individuals accused of sex offenses, said the $10,000 bail struck him as low.

“If the allegations are credible and there doesn’t appear to be something that wouldn’t be suggestive of fabrication, it would normally be a much higher bail,’’ said Swomley, who is not involved in Gardner’s cases.

Still, he said, the judges might have considered that Gardner had never been accused of a sex offense before August, according to public records.

Oh. So it was his first time raping a child. That explains everything. It’s not like the man traumatized a six-year-old in front of another child who testified about the assault:

In the first case, Gardner allegedly broke into a Kingston home through a bathroom window, according to the mother of the alleged victim, whose name the Globe is withholding because it would indirectly identify her daughter, the victim of a sexual assault. The Globe does not identify sexual assault victims.

Investigators gathered fingerprints and other forensic evidence that tied Gardner to the crime, she said.

According to a Kingston police report filed in court, the first alleged victim was staying at a woman relative’s house with another female relative, age 10, on Aug. 22. Between 4 and 6 a.m., the woman heard the 6-year-old crying and the 10-year-old girl yelling but dismissed it as a routine disturbance.

But around 6 a.m., the woman got up and was told by the 6-year-old that “a man was in her room . . . and was hurting her,’’ said the police report. A container of baby powder was on the floor and the powder was on the bed.

The woman discovered Gardner – to whom she was related by a former spouse – just steps away from the girls’ bedroom. Gardner said he was there to pick up garbage and take it to the dump, but the woman told police Gardner did not come through the front door and was not supposed to be in her home.

Gardner, who had baby powder on him, was ordered to leave but returned later with his father, David Gardner, according to the police report. Joseph Gardner “was very upset’’ and tearfully denied harming the 6-year-old girl, according to the report.

Yeah. Sounds like he deserved a higher bail. The victim was claimed to have “recanted” by a nurse but in reality the kid just wanted to get out of the hospital and the testimony of the ten-year-old and the forensics pretty much nailed Gardner. The ten-year-old is said to have given a “graphic” account of the crime.

And of course he has an excuse for the second assault. He was dating some tramp who tried to shake him down. Mother of the year slept over Gardner’s home, where the Massachusetts authorities have allowed him to keep custody of his four-year-old, sans kids the night before the assault then showed up the next day with her kids. I’m betting it was a set up, but Gardner isn’t innocent.

The events leading up to the second alleged rape began when Gardner started dating a woman with whom he had gone to high school, prosecutors said. The woman brought her two children, a 3-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy, to spend the night at Gardner’s home on Friday, prosecutors said.

Gardner lives on Summer Street with his 4-year-old son. The woman had slept there without her children the night before, court records show.

The woman told investigators that she heard her 3-year-old crying in the middle of the night but dismissed it because the girl often got upset while sleeping.

The next morning the woman noticed that her daughter was no longer wearing a pull-up diaper and she asked her about it. The girl then allegedly told her mother that Gardner sexually assaulted her and told the girl he would kill her father if she told anyone, according to police. The woman took her daughter to Jordan Hospital, which notified police.

When police arrested Gardner at home on Sunday morning, he said the woman’s allegations were untrue. “She accused me of this yesterday and wanted money so I gave it to her,’’ Gardner told police, according to court records. “She must have heard about my other case.’’

Disgusting. A man bails out of jail for child rape and she shows up with new victims. Someone needs to help the children of Massachusetts because it seems like no adult there is willing to keep them safe.

WCVB has more and a video report.

h/t Dreamin’ Demon

In a sane world Maurice Clemmons would have never left the Arkansas prison system. A violent felon with a history of assaults Clemmons’ first serious run in with the law was at the age of 17 when he was caught robbing people on school grounds with a handgun. In 1990 he got hit with a 60 year bid for burglary and theft. That was on top of 48 years he had already gotten for other crimes.

Sound like he got a raw deal? Not exactly. Clemmons’ dangerous court house antics made an impression on authorities that made it unlikely he’d ever see the light of day if they had anything to say about it:

In 1990, Clemmons, then 18, was sentenced in Arkansas to 60 years in prison for burglary and theft of property, according to a news account in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Newspaper stories describe a series of disturbing incidents involving Clemmons while he was being tried in Arkansas on various charges.

During one trial, Clemmons was shackled in leg irons and seated next to a uniformed officer. The presiding judge ordered the extra security because he felt Clemmons had threatened him, court records show.

Another time, Clemmons hid a hinge in his sock, and was accused of intending to use it as a weapon. Yet another time, Clemmons took a lock from a holding cell, and threw it toward the bailiff. He missed and instead hit Clemmons’ mother, who had come to bring him street clothes, according to records and published reports.

On another occasion, Clemmons had reached for a guard’s pistol during transport to the courtroom.

Sound dangerous? Maybe to you and me. But “conservative” politician/preacher Mike Huckabee thought Clemmons deserved a second chance because he was so young when he ended up in prison. So Huckabee granted this thug clemency despite how obviously dangerous he was. Clemmons went on with his criminal ways.

In March 2001 Clemmons was charged with more strong arm robberies. More recently he was involved in an assault on a police officer and child rape. From SeattlePI:

Recently he was charged in Pierce County for third-degree assault on a police officer and rape of a child. Clemmons’ aunt, in Little Rock, Ark., declined to comment or even give her name. She said her mother — who is Clemmons’ grandmother — had numerous calls from reporters on Sunday “and it was very upsetting to her.”

According to court records, Clemmons was released from custody Nov. 12 after a Pierce County judge ordered he undergo a second psychiatric evaluation at Western State Hospital.

Pierce County records show Clemmons is currently facing child rape charges in a May 10 incident, the details of which were not available Sunday. In a separate case, Clemmons and two other men have been charged with two counts of third-degree assault and multiple counts of malicious mischief, or destruction of property.

Court records show Clemmons spent much of 2009 as a fugitive, avoiding jail until an arrest in July. Though bail was initially set at $150,000 in the child rape case, that order appears to have been revoked on Nov. 12 when he was ordered evaluated at Western State Hospital.

In the child rape case, filed in early July, prosecutors appear to have filed to have Clemmons confined if convicted under the state’s persistent offender statute.

While many would lay this at Huckabee’s feet exclusively, there’s plenty of blame to go around. Why was a man with a criminal record this long and who had been a fugitive a year ago granted bail in the first place? Left leaning journalists are gleefully reporting on “the Huckabee connection” while studiously ignoring the hug-a-thug policies they usually support wholeheartedly. They certainly are shy about putting forward the fact that this is the second police ambush in Washington this month. I think there might be some blame for Washington’s anti-police political environment in both these cases.

But in the Clemmons case, it is clear that what drove Huckabee and the liberal judges who later came into contact with him was the belief that all criminals could be rehabilitated, that there is reason to give people like Maurice Clemmons a second chance. But in that world view, one of universal redemption that characterizes both the Christian ethics of Huckabee and the liberalism of Washington state, there is no room for the truth. Maurice Clemmons could never be rehabilitated because he simply didn’t want to be.

As usual, people will claim that he was mentally unstable, but Clemmons was recently held competent to stand trial. No matter how odd he was, he knew right from wrong and chose murder, rape and brutality every time he had a chance. Had Huckabee not pardoned this fiend his family wouldn’t have been abused (it’s being reported that Clemmons made his wife and children strip in front of him for entertainment) and a child’s innocence wouldn’t have been stolen. If a judge hadn’t given this predator bail those four police officers he gunned down would be alive. If our system recognized that some people simply cannot be rehabilitated, Clemmons’ trail of victims would have never been as long and as tragic as it is now.

Clemmons can distinguish between right and wrong. Why can’t we?

Fox has more.