4—The Daily Collegian Thursday, April 5, 1984 Jury acquits two policemen, tavern owner in rape case By The Associated Press NEWBURYPORT, Mass. A jury yester dl4Y found two policemen innocent of raping a 21;year-old woman in an empty bar, and the tavern's owner also was acquitted on a charge he aided the attack. The Essex Superior Court jury also found Lynn Police Officers Unree Poellnitz and Edward Jackson innocent of drugging a per son for sexual intercourse. Jackson, 31, and Poellnitz, 34, showed no emotion .as the verdict was read. Stephen 114rden, owner of Ye Olde Ox Bar in Lynn, lowered his head and wept. Jackson's mother arid wife sobbed in the courtroom. ' During the trial, the woman testified the officers raped her after getting her so drunk she passed out. The defense argued the wom- Leg tumor on preacher's child shrinks after ordered treatment By The Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. The tumor The girl's cancer tumor was discov on7 the leg of a girl whose preacher- ered last July, and state social work father once fought her court-ordered ers took her family to court in August treatment because of his religion has when they didn't seek treatment. shrunk to one-third of its size and now Pamela's father, Larry Hamilton, contains little of the life-threatening is a fundamentalist pastor of the ,cancer, officidis said yesterday. Church of God of the Union Assembly .Pamela Hamilton, 13, is back in in LaFollette. The church believes in East Tennessee Children's Hospital faith healing and forbids its members for tests and eight days of chemothe- to take any medicine. rapy, spokeswoman Pat Kelly said. A juvenile court judge. ordered 'Dr. Frank Haraf, a cancer special- treatment, and chemotherapy began ist, will conduct tests today and to- last September after the state Court Morrow to try to determine whether of Appeals rejected Hamilton's ap the cancer from the lump on her peal. The state Supreme Court re upper left leg has spread to other fused to hear the case. parts of the girl's body, Kelly said. Doctors said last September that s "We have no reason to think she Pamela would have likely died by has had any (spread)," she said. Christmas without the cancer-killing : Haraf believes that the tumor, chemotherapy drugs. which last September grew to the size o a football, is now mostly "a calci- In January, Hamilton dropped his fied area of scar tissue," Kelly said. court fight against treatment because "Whether or not this lump also his lawyer said it would be a "corn ctntains dormant cancer tumor can- plete exercise in futility from a legal not be determined," she said. standpoint." :What's going to determine that is But last Friday, Hamilton sued titne." Children's Hospital for $15,000 be 'Hamilton entered the hospital Mon- cause Pamela slipped •on her ay for eight , days of chemotherapy crutches, fell and Broke her cancer treatments, Kelly said, and the treat- weakened leg in November. The bro 'tient cycle would be repeated every ken leg healed. an "was the aggressor" and invited sex with the men after an evening of barroom drinking and flirting. The jury of seven men and five women deliberated for two days. Midway through yesterday's deliberations, the jury returned to the courtroom to ask Judge Francis Lappin to explain the differ ence between the charges of aggravated rape and simple rape. The men were accused of aggravated rape. Lappin answered that, "Whoever has sex ual intercourse or unnatural sexual inter course with a person and compels such person to submit l by force or against that person's will" is guilty of rape. A person is guilty of aggravated rape when he participates in the crime with the cooper ation of one or more persons. Aggravated three or four weeks through Septem ber. rape is essentially gang rape. , In explaining the drugging charge to the jury, Lappin said jurors must determine whether the victim suffered "a level of intoxi cation that deprived her of her freedom to exercise her will ... and the defendants knew she was incapable of giving consent." He said the only possible verdicts for the bar owner were guilty or innocent. The verdict concluded the fifth highly publi cized gang rape trial. in Massachusetts in the past 3 years. • • Two weeks ago„two juries in Fall River convicted four men and acquitted two others in the aggravated rape a woman on a bar room pool table. • In early March, three men, associated with the disbanded rock group Grand Slamm were convicted in the gang rape of a 19-year Portland, Ore. puts boots on guerrillas Afghan soldiers receive 2,000 pairs of new commando boots By RICHARD GREEN Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. Guerrillas fighting Soviet soldiers in Afghani stan have 2,000 pairs of new com mando boots and other gear donated by a Portland-based orga nization, the group's director said Monday. Don Weidenweber, director of American Aid for Afghans, said he used $48,000 donated by 1,700 Ameri cans to buy the equipment in Paki stan and give it to guerrilla representatives, including Moha mad Yahya Masaud, brother of guerilla leader Ahmad S. Masaud. In addition to the boots, the gear included 7,550 pairs of rubber boots, Official disputes claim that Zambia By The Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe A government security official says there is "no evidence" that six kidnap ped tourists including two Americans are still alive in neighboring Zambia. Emmerson Munangagwa, Zimbabwe's minister `lncredible as it seems, in a war waged against some of the most sophisticated weaponry in the world, Afghan guerrillas are battling the Soviets with little ordnance, less money, and in their bareNfeet.' —Don Weidenweber, director of American Aid for Afghans 435 overcoats, 577 jungle jumper suits; 2,000 Awami suits (shirt and pants), 3,500 jackets, 2011 , trousers and a radio amplifier with spare parts. "Incredible. as it seems, in a war of state for security, disputed a claim by a rebel commander that the tourists kidnapped 20 months ago were alive and still being held. "Zambia was consulted on the matter and the results were negative," he was quoted as saying in an interview published today by the Harare Herald. The missing tourists are Brett Baldwin of old Fort Devens Army private. A fourth man was acquitted. • Last June, five young , men were found innocent of raping and beating a former beauty queen near Holbrook, south of Boston, in 1980. The defense in that case conceded that sex took place, but said the woman was a "happy drunk" who willingly participated. • In 1981, three Boston-area , doctors were convicted of raping a nurse in Rockport in 1980. Prosecutor Howard Whitehead said in his summation Monday that the officers took the woman to the bar and "formed a plan to reel her in like a fish on a line." The woman testified she and a 16-year-old girlfriend were handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser and taken -to the bar by the officers on Nov. 22. The teen-ager was allow- waged against some of the most sophisticated weaponry in the world, Afghan guerrillas are bat tlihg the Soviets with little ord nance, less money, and in their bare feet," Weidenweber said. ed to leave, but the victim remained and was raped, she said. Whitehead, an assistant Essex district at torney, said the policemen "knew she was vulnerable." The woman has testified that she suffers a learning .disability and reads at a third grade level. However, Lappin instructed jurors that the defendants' position as police officers should not affect judgments of guilt or innocence. Jackson's attorney, Ed Reardon, didn't dispute that the men had sex with the woman, but he argued, "She was the aggressor. She brought it on herself. She knew exactly what she was doing." Frank Mondano, Harden's lawyer, called the woman "somewhere between a vicious liar and severely emotionally unstable." American Aid for Afghans, a non profit corporation, was formed af ter the Soviets invaded Afghanistan on Dec. 27, 1979. While many 'groups are helping Afghan refugees, his organization is one of the few in the world and the only one in the United States provid ing aid to Afghan guerrillas, . The commando boots are being used by Masaud's men, while half of the rubber boots and clothing is being distributed by Masaud in the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan. he said. The rest of the rubber boots and clothing are being distributed by the Islamic Unity of Afghan Mujahe deen into Kunar, Bamian and Logar provinces, he said. tourists are alive Seattle; Kevin Ellis of Bellevue, Wash.; Austra lians Tony Bajzelj and William Butler; and Britons James Greenwell and Martyn Hodgson. Ellis' father was cautious about the rebel com mander's claims. "We have never lost hope as far as returning our son to his rightful home," William Ellis said in Atlanta. police log • The State College Police Depart- ' vehicle driven by Richard Barrick ment on Tuesday reported' a three- man, 32, 1232 N. Inverary Place, who car accident at the , intersection of was stopped at the intersection. South Pugh Street and Easterly Park way. Tawni Lee Myers, 31, of Spring mated at $5,800, police said Mills, was traveling north on South Pugh. Street when she failed to stop at • Elizabeth Noll (senior-adminis the stop sign at the Easterly Parkway tration of justice), 215 W. Fairmount intersection. Her car collided with an St., told State College police Tuesday automobile driven by. John Mulfing- a $5OO string of pearls was missing er, 66, of, Pleasant Gap, who was from her purse while it was in the traveling east on Easterly Parkway. 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The incident began about noon • Police said "it is a reasonable when the victim was driving on the assumption" that the victim was a 700 block of South Allen Street. University student, but would not When the two reached North Caro- comment any further on his identi lina, the driver was knocked ty. They received the report April unconscious and his vehicle stolen, 3 and the investigation is continu police said. The vehicle was later ing. recovered in North Carolina. —by Leslie Thomas The Daily Collegian Thursday, April 5, 19
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