SC - William Ronca for raping, impregnating 9yo girl, Abbeville, 2006

[SewingDeb]

I think he should have been sentenced for each time he raped this girl and, by his own admission, it was once or twice each week for two years. He would never see daylight outside of prison again.

In essence, he was charged and sentenced for one rape and given 5 years off for showing remorse.

 

[IrishMist]

The mother of this precious child obviously lacked communication w/ her daughter and let this perverted piece of scum take control. Single moms need to wise up and keep their guard up against this happening to their own child. Keep priorities straight and put dating/remarrying on hold and put your child first. I question just where this mother was all this time her dd was being raped, yes raped by this so called step father? How could she not know her dd was not gaining weight? I have an 11 yr old dd who means the world to me and under no circumstances would I not notice a baby growing inside of her. No child deserves to be robbed of her childhood. Just thinking about this makes me sick to my stomach!

What about the child's father? It's so easy to blame the mother, yet I rarely hear a complaint about fathers that just disappear from a child's life, leaving the mother to take care of everything. And who gets judged? The mom. :doh:

And you are forgetting about all the dating and remarriages that do work. It's not like every single time a mom dates/marries, this kind of sick thing happens.

I also think it's easy for you to look at this with 20/20 hindsight and see the weight gain as something wrong. If my 11 year old hadn't started her period yet, I don't think my first thought upon seeing weight gain would be pregnancy.

 

[tennessee]

What about the child's father? It's so easy to blame the mother, yet I rarely hear a complaint about fathers that just disappear from a child's life, leaving the mother to take care of everything. And who gets judged? The mom. :doh:

And you are forgetting about all the dating and remarriages that do work. It's not like every single time a mom dates/marries, this kind of sick thing happens.

I also think it's easy for you to look at this with 20/20 hindsight and see the weight gain as something wrong. If my 11 year old hadn't started her period yet, I don't think my first thought upon seeing weight gain would be pregnancy.

Thanks, Irish. I was a single mom for 6 years. It isn't that the moms choose to date again. It is whom they choose to date.

My daughter was around my husband from our first date. However, I got to know him for 6+ months before we ever went out.

Any other person I dated, I rarely had near my daughter. I wouldn't leave her alone with any of them. Not that I believed they were molesters or rapists. I just didn't want to take a chance. I would see them on weekends she was with her dad.

Lots of people are molested/raped by their biological parents too. Blaming a single mom isn't the only choice.

 

[IrishMist]

I was a single mom, too, Tennessee. Plus, I know a lot of single moms. I get so tired of the knee-jerk reaction of blaming the mother and never hearing one thing about so many of the fathers that abandon their kids. IMO, that has a huge impact on a child and their life.

While there are exceptions to every rule, I believe most single moms are doing the very best they can to handle a difficult role.

 

[White Rain]

I was also a single mom for 5 years....hardest job in the world I swear...I also didn't take guys I dated around my kids. Better to be safe than sorry.