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Couple charged with having sex in front of child
By Associated Press
Saturday, February 10, 2007 - Updated: 12:58 PM EST
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Woonsocket mother and her boyfriend are headed to trial on charges they had intercourse in front of the woman’s 9-year-old daughter as a way to teach the girl about sex.
Rebecca Arnold, of Woonsocket, and her boyfriend, David Prata, have pleaded not guilty to felony child-neglect charges. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for next month.
When questioned by an investigator from the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, Prata, 33, said he and Arnold, 36, had sex ”all the time” in front of the child and that ”we don’t believe in hiding anything.”
He said the girl would often be on the bed watching as the couple had sex. Though they did not ask her to leave, they also did not force her to remain on the bed, Prata said.
Asked why he thought a child that age should know about sexual acts, Prata replied, ”We wanted to prepare her so she would know how,” according to a report from the investigator, Vanessa E. Cisela.
The girl, who is now 11, went to live with her biological father in North Adams, Mass., after spending the summer with her mother in Woonsocket.
Her teacher called the Child Abuse Hotline in December 2004 to report that the girl said her mother and her boyfriend had sex in front of her.
The child told a Massachusetts social services investigator that her mother and Prata never touched her or tried to include her in the sex.
Woonsocket police arrested Prata and Arnold in February 2005. The couple is accused of ”providing an environment that is lewd and depraved in a manner that makes their home unfit for the child to live in,” according to court records.
Prata and Arnold are free on bail pending a March 19 pretrial conference in Family Court. They each face one to three years in prison or a maximum $1,000 fine, or both.
Their lawyers did not return phone calls from The Providence Journal.
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By Associated Press
Saturday, February 10, 2007 - Updated: 12:58 PM EST
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Woonsocket mother and her boyfriend are headed to trial on charges they had intercourse in front of the woman’s 9-year-old daughter as a way to teach the girl about sex.
Rebecca Arnold, of Woonsocket, and her boyfriend, David Prata, have pleaded not guilty to felony child-neglect charges. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for next month.
When questioned by an investigator from the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, Prata, 33, said he and Arnold, 36, had sex ”all the time” in front of the child and that ”we don’t believe in hiding anything.”
He said the girl would often be on the bed watching as the couple had sex. Though they did not ask her to leave, they also did not force her to remain on the bed, Prata said.
Asked why he thought a child that age should know about sexual acts, Prata replied, ”We wanted to prepare her so she would know how,” according to a report from the investigator, Vanessa E. Cisela.
The girl, who is now 11, went to live with her biological father in North Adams, Mass., after spending the summer with her mother in Woonsocket.
Her teacher called the Child Abuse Hotline in December 2004 to report that the girl said her mother and her boyfriend had sex in front of her.
The child told a Massachusetts social services investigator that her mother and Prata never touched her or tried to include her in the sex.
Woonsocket police arrested Prata and Arnold in February 2005. The couple is accused of ”providing an environment that is lewd and depraved in a manner that makes their home unfit for the child to live in,” according to court records.
Prata and Arnold are free on bail pending a March 19 pretrial conference in Family Court. They each face one to three years in prison or a maximum $1,000 fine, or both.
Their lawyers did not return phone calls from The Providence Journal.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRe...ticleid=182201
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i dont know what to think about this one... i mean obviously i would never do that to my child. but if they did not hurst the child, didnt touch her, didnt include her, didnt force her to watch... Can't parent raise there child wihtout the government interfering?
On the other tis is morally uneccpetable... and just plain not normal. but can you jail someone cause there arent "normal"
i wonder what will come out of this, and also if this were to happen say in Europ were they are more liberal on the matter what would happen
On the other tis is morally uneccpetable... and just plain not normal. but can you jail someone cause there arent "normal"
i wonder what will come out of this, and also if this were to happen say in Europ were they are more liberal on the matter what would happen
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Yeah - sex ed is in school... not for those aged 9! 1-3 years in prison isn't enough for that type of mental trauma. She'll be relating sex to her f*cked up mother doing a random guy within arms reach - real sexy. Kids should be watching cartoons, not smelling sweaty man ass.
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you find a need to crap on everything ive said in the last few days.
everytime you post i dont say something gay or retarded about your comment. i have yet to "crap" on your posts.
this isnt something id personaly do with my kids but if these parents feel this is the best way to teach their child then fine...let them.