Missouri father arrested at Cracker Barrel over Craigslist ad seeking rape of daughter

[Galraedia]

Source: Raw Story

A Missouri father was arrested last week after he showed up at a Cracker Barrel to meet an undercover officer who he had contacted on Craigslist about beating and raping his 11-year-old daughter.

At a press conference on Monday, St. Louis County Detective Mike Slaughter said that it took a lot to shock detectives who investigate Internet predators, but they just couldn’t believe it when 32-year-old Anthony Brinkman came to the restaurant with the young girl that he expected them to assault.

“It’s just a lot of talk for most of these guys, but this guy actually brought (the girl) to the scene to go ahead with the next step of enacting it,” Slaughter explained. “If we hadn’t gotten involved and someone bad had gotten in touch with him, something bad would have happened to that little girl.”

Slaughter said that the Missouri Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was called into action after someone reported a Craigslist ad Brinkman posted last week. He told an undercover officer posing as 27-year-old woman that he was looking for a girlfriend and someone who would help him assault the girl with sex toys, according to Slaughter.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/05/missouri-father-arrested-at-cracker-barrel-over-craiglists-ad-seeking-rape-of-daughter/

[Initech]

1. Holy shit!!!!

How do people that fucked up have kids? I don't get it.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. It doesn't take a genius to procreate just look at the tea party..

[shenmue]

3. I think I'm going to be sick

Now that's really evil.

[Chakab]

4. I don't think that I've ever read a pleasant news story about an incident that took place at a

Cracker Barrel.

[rurallib]

5. can't express what I am thinking

let us say - no sorry can't say.

[bullwinkle428]

31. Right with you, dude - I know exactly what you're thinking.

[bigworld]

6. Can we just delete some people?

I'm sorry, some people just do not deserve to live on this earth.

[AnneD]

51. Some people....

what a truly black heart.

[allan01]

7. re:Missouri father arrested at Cracker Barrel over Craigslist ad seeking rape of daughter

[BlueJazz]

8. Oh Me. Numb.

[olddad56]

9. I just wonder how much abuse this little girl has already been subjected to.

[niyad]

11. same thought, same time.

[freshwest]

15. Likely making video. Maybe a snuff video later. And expected a woman to help him.

I've known of worse cases, done for fun and profit. Too many 'gentlemen' like him are running loose.

[Xithras]

30. There's really no chance that she hasn't been abused already.

Someone doesn't just dive in to the deep end of the pedophile pool without first making sure they can swim. The fact that he did this means that he was fairly sure that she wouldn't talk, and that "regular" molestation wasn't doing it for him anymore. My guess (from experience, as a former child victim) is that he's been abusing her for years and was looking for a new "high".

Hopefully she can get the help she'll need to recover from this.

[niyad]

36. I know a lot of us already thought so, but to see your post makes it even more chillingly real.

I am so very sorry for what was done to you. interesting that the investigators say there is no evidence that brinkman ever assaulted the girl before.

[yardwork]

37. I'm sorry that that happened to you.

[niyad]

10. something bad has ALREADY happened to that little girl--her father. one has to wonder (well, maybe

not) what that child has already endured from this sick, perverted pos.

creatures like that "father" make me want to rethink my position on poppets.

[niyad]

12. may this perverted, twisted, sick piece of filth NEVER see the outside of a prison for the rest of h

unnatural life.

[Kablooie]

13. Luckily he's as stupid as he is evil.

This is one guy that belongs locked away from society forever.

The poor girl.
She certainly needs him out of her life but still, losing your only parent will be hard, even so.
What a mess.

[alp227]

14. Rape culture.

From Daniel Tosh saying "wouldn't it be funny if that girl were raped by five guys" to fathers who actually pimp out their daughters like this, to small towns that stand with high school football players who rape girls...fuck this country.

[niyad]

24. I read the comments on huffpo--was appalling (although not surprising) that the girl's mother was

being trashed, even though there was NOTHING in the report about her existence, or lack thereof. then I went to the news station's website, where it was reported that this vile, despicable piece of human filth, was there with "a relative". could not even bring themselves to say "daughter", his own daughter.

what is also disappointing is how little coverage this actually got. as far as I could tell, only that one station covered it. whatever more exposure there was seems to have come from raw story covering the news item.

[CanonRay]

26. Did you see the "rape club" in New Zealand?

It's not just this country, unfortunately.

[gopiscrap]

16. what a sick fucker!

[Ash_F]

17. Thank goodness it was quickly reported and taken seriously. /nt

[sir pball]

18. Jesus. I wouldn't dirty my bullets...y'all ever seen the movie Payback?

"I'll make this last three weeks...I'll give you a blood transfusion to keep you alive."

I'll donate a pint if it will make this trash scream longer.

[malthaussen]

20. Tell me again why the death penalty is a bad idea. n/t

[Bradical79]

21. racism + corrupt justice system

that favors the wealthy?

[In_The_Wind]

22. This man is too sick to be walking around where he can hurt innocent people.

[snooper2]

23. Here's Sick Fuck Anthony Brinkman's picture - Keep it spread around

Tell me again why this fuck shouldn't be shot in the face and dumped in the Mississippi for the catfish?

[niyad]

25. trying to think of one good reason. . . he tried an "aw shucks, guess I was being kinda stupid"

routine, as though that would excuse his disgusting behaviour. "oh, and I MIGHT have some child porn on my computer".

my guess is that when they really start investigating, they are going to find all kinds of horrors.

[PasadenaTrudy]

27. There truly are

monsters among us

[leftyladyfrommo]

28. Wow!

4% of the population are sociopaths.

You can't tell these sickos by just looking at them. They look normal. They are just empty inside.

[niyad]

29. was thinking of the old testament story of lot, who offered his daughters to be gang-raped, so he

could be left alone.

[winter is coming]

33. Actually, Lot offered his daughters so his *guests* could be left alone.

The story's supposed to be about how important hospitality was in that culture, i.e., you'd sacrifice your own children to keep a guest under your roof from harm. There's a school of thought that the "sin" of Sodom was disregarding hospitality customs, not homosexuality. Still pretty fucking disturbing.

[niyad]

34. you are correct, it is pretty disturbing. what kind of sick, twisted culture says it is of less

consequence for your DAUGHTERS to be raped than for a guest to be inconvenienced?? a sick, twisted, patriarchal culture (because I do not seem to recall those guests being female).

[winter is coming]

38. When the daughters are raped, it's rape, but when the male guests are raped,

it's an "inconvenience"? That's an interesting perspective.

[winter is coming]

40. This is what I'm talking about...

Before they went to bed, the townsmen of Sodom, both young and old—all the people to the last man—surrounded the house.

They called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to your house tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have sexual relations with them.”

[niyad]

41. I don't remember those words, but then, the last time I read the story was many decades ago.

rape is rape. the old testament is full of a lot of really disgusting, ugly stuff.

[bitchkitty]

43. Have sexual relations with them?

What version of the bible is that? The original King James says "that we may know them."

Interesting how these versions evolve. For all we know, they might have said (if it really did happen), "bring them out so we may have a beer with them."

Lot was also the one who said that he had sex with his daughters because he was drunk and they took advantage. "Bitch set me up." Now THAT'S an age-old story.

[antigone382]

44. to "know" in the biblical sense is "to have sex with."

It was very clear that the intention was to rape the guests.

[bitchkitty]

45. Yes, I realize that.

My point is that as something is interpreted and reinterpreted, the meaning can change, and that we don't really know what happened, or IF it happened.

Myths and fairy tales...

[antigone382]

47. Granted, to a degree.

But increasingly, scholars of religious texts are able to understand the historical context and the not necessarily intuitive connotations of different phrases. So there is very little doubt that the story is intended to convey that Lot's guests were being threatened with rape.

That doesn't imply that I think the story is true or false. I'm more or less an atheist who calls myself a Quaker by the thinnest of margins because it makes people think I'm almost Amish and stops them from proselytizing me.

[winter is coming]

49. Well, if you're looking for accuracy, the King James version would not be the place to go.

It was written for political reasons, in a variant of English that was never actually spoken, and given the choice between sounding "majestic" and poetic or being accurate, accuracy suffers. I found this an interesting read on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Secretaries-P-S-Adam-Nicolson-ebook/dp/B000FC11ZG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383868787&sr=8-1&keywords=%22god%27s+secretaries%22

Modern translators go back to the oldest Greek and Aramaic sources they can find. A huge problem is that our culture is so different is that there are cultural references and mores the original audience would have immediately "gotten" that we don't pick up on. So even if a word is translated "correctly", we miss allusions that didn't need explaining to the original audience.

[winter is coming]

46. Don't recall, as I looked the verses up online at biblegateway,

but "know" was a euphemism for carnal knowledge, hence the phrase, "to know someone in the Biblical sense". And yes, there's a lot of fucked up shit in the Old Testament. My personal unfavorite is Jephthah, the general who promised God he'd sacrifice the first living thing he saw as soon as he got home if God would give them victory over the Ammonites. The first thing he sees is his daughter, who obediently agrees to be killed, provided she can spend some time (a month??) in the mountains with her friends, mourning the fact that she'll never be a mother. And her name is never given. If this were a Greek mythology story, the moral would be that the gods are capricious and powerful and you should be careful what you ask for, but the only overtones here are respect for Jephthah and his nameless daughter for their unwavering faith.

[bitchkitty]

48. I highly recommend the book "The Red Tent".

Based on Dinah, the only daughter of Jacob. It's a very good read.

[winter is coming]

50. Thanks, I'll check it out. n/t

[Myrina]

32. This. Is. Just. Sick.

OMG. That poor girl. So glad he was caught beforehand.

[niyad]

35. as has been pointed out upthread, in all likelihood this is only the latest in a long saga of this

sick, twisted piece of filth abusing that poor child.

[niyad]

42. have a couple of questions: has ANYBODY seen any article that indicates whether there is a mother

in the picture? one article said that the girl was placed with relatives, but not one indicates whether there is a mother, whether alive or dead.

so much missing from these stories.

[Arkana]

52. What a fucking creep.

I hope he spends the rest of his life in a deep, dark hole.