Reply #53: RESEARCH RESULTS [View All]

[alcibiades_mystery]

Question: Did the following event happen:

A 60-year old man and woman had custody of their 2-year old granddaughter.
He was addicted to drugs, so, he sold drug dealers "turns" at his granddaughter. The caseworker relayed the story that several would molest this child at a time. It took months to catch them and they held their breath through the trial, because she said if ONE thing wasn't followed to the tee...this man could regain custody of this poor child. Apparently the man took care of this himself.
He told the judge that he shouldn't be on trial, because this 2-year old girl WANTED the sex as much as he did. She said that when this man got shanked in prison after becoming an object of many affections...that she got a sense of satisfaction from it.

METHOD: I searched the following databases, using information provided my in a PM by the OP (location and timeframe):

Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe (Nationwide newspapers)
Newsbank - Americas Newspapers. Without revealing too much information from the OP, this databse allowed me to search 17 local newspapers from the OP's state, though only 14 were available for the relevant time period.
ProQuest Direct (Newspapers)

I used the following search terms, together and in various combinations, searching the full-text: grandfather, granddaughter, drug dealers, prison, (OP's home town), (OP's home county), custody, rape, molested, molest.

RESULTS: Zero news articles turn up in any searches using these terms.

DISCUSSION: The results suggest that my hypothesis was correct: this never happened. Of course, it may have happened and not made the news, or my databases may not have included the newspapers in which the story did appear (they do not include the local newspaper of the town indicated by the OP, for instance). At this point, however, there is no independent verification for this story.

I will donate $20 to DU if anybody can prove me wrong. All you have to do is produce the evidence that anything like this happened as the OP describes in the place and time he described. PM me for details.

Cheers!