Family Of Suspect Claims Young Babysitters Sexually Assaulted 27 Year Old Man

This story from KTVZ shows that a family of a rape defendant will not only victim blame, they will try for a complete role reversal:

Redmond [Oregon] police raided the home of Johnny Burns late Thursday night, but his family went on camera Friday with NewsChannel 21, defending him. [...]

Burns, 27, was arrested Thursday night on rape, sodomy and sex abuse charges, not to mention three counts of giving alcohol to a minor. [...] Detectives say over the course of three weeks, Burns got his 12- and 14-year-old babysitters drunk, then sexually abused them. But family members say these allegations aren't true. In fact, they say it's the other way around.

"Underage girls that were his babysitters got into his liquor cabinet when he was passed out and came into his room and started touching him," said Dewitt. "He woke up and told them to get out."

That's his story and they're sticking to it.

This role-reversal defense unintentionally but directly supports the charges against Burns. It tells everyone that :

1) The girls arrived sober, but were given alcohol either directly or through negligence.
2) The defendant also consumed alcohol on the same date or dates that the alleged victims consumed alcohol and he did so in the same house.
3) There was sexual contact between Burns and both alleged victims.

Any legal defense which attempts to deny that the girls consumed alcohol in the house or which attempts to deny sexual contact has been made non-credible by this public defense by Burns' family. If a full denial defense works in court because the jury isn't informed of this explanation, that acquittal will be forever tainted.

According to some neighbors they were concerned about criminal activity at this man's house, but they suspected drugs not rape. Yeah, sounds like this man was a model citizen who is the hapless victim of conspiring girls age 12 and 14.

As the rape denialists love to say, "Hey, it could have happened that way so he must be found not guilty."

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