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Daisy Coleman and her accused attacker Matthew Barnett
Eight things you need to know to get up to speed in the Maryville sexual assault case, based on interviews, law enforcement records and other documents gathered by
The Star in the last seven months:
1. About 1 a.m. on Jan. 8, 2012, two teenage girls sneak out of a slumber party and are picked up and driven to the home of a 17-year-old Maryville High School senior named Matt Barnett. Daisy Coleman, 14 at the time, alleges she blacked out after being given multiple drinks and was sexually assaulted by Barnett. Her 13-year-old friend says she was forced to have sex with a 15-year-old boy. Another 17-year-old, Jordan Zech, allegedly takes phone video of the encounter between Barnett and Daisy. Afterward, Daisy is carried out of the house, crying, driven back to her home and left outside in freezing temperatures, where she is discovered by her mother the next morning.
2. Barnett soon is charged with sexual assault, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. Zech is charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, a felony. Barnett, grandson of a former state representative, tells the sheriff's office that he'd been aware that Daisy had been drinking before having sex with her but says she was only "buzzed," not yet drunk, when the encounter took place. Zech admits to shooting a portion of the encounter between Barnett and Daisy. The 15-year-old admits to having sex with the 13-year-old girl even though she had said "no" multiple times. His case is handled in juvenile court. Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White, whose office investigated the case, later says he "absolutely" believed prosecutions would follow, adding, "I would defy the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department to do what we did and get it wrapped up as nicely as we did in that amount of time."
Comment: In America's psychopathic culture, where what is morally and humanely understood as reality is turned around by the psycho rulers into an inhumane caricature posed as the "law", we will find ourselves confused, fearful and divided within and without. But if we do away with the rules of this psycho-justice system, and just stare the facts in the face, our inner division will lift and we might be able to see finally the only division that actually exists in this world: between humans and conscienceless human looking predators.
So look at the facts. Look at the fact that it was a miracle that Daisy Coleman is alive today, left outside in subzero temperatures, after being poisoned and raped that night. Her rapist and his associates left her in conditions that have easily caused her death. And they don't seem to care a bit about this, or those who support them with "fancy psycho law" talk. And they are out there free, knowing they can do whatever they want because they can get away with it.