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Lesbians do not like men, or future
men for that matter.
Report for January 31,
2004
Homosexuals inflict far more hurt and abuse on
children, proportionally, than do non-homosexuals. This article details
the suffering of five little boys and one little girl at the hands of two
lesbians. As the court evidence proved, the boys were brutalized exactly
because they are boys.
Rowles, Jenkins get 30 years; son faces mom. `I hate you
both,' teen tells women.
No remorse shown for abuse of 5 boys, girl.
By Phil Trexler, January 13, 2004
Beacon Journal, http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/7703392.htm
The 15-year-old stood before almost every news camera in Northeast Ohio as
he eyed his mother for the first time since escaping from home last
spring.
Mary Rowles barely returned her son's look. Neither did her partner, Alice
Jenkins. In minutes, the two would learn how long they would be imprisoned
for abusing the teen, his four brothers and a sister.
``My entire life has been horrifying because of the abuse, neglect and
mistreatment that both of you have inflicted,'' Darrell Rowles began.
``You are both hurtful people and need to be put away for a long time so
that no other child has to go through what I went through,'' he said. ``I
hate you both for everything you put me through.''
The ``long time'' the teen wanted was translated into 30 years in prison
by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Patricia A. Cosgrove, who called the
women ``perhaps the coldest, most unfeeling, least empathetic criminals I
have ever seen.''
Before the teen walked into court Tuesday, Rowles and Jenkins sat at a
table for about 40 minutes, smiling, chuckling and whispering to each
other. The tears they shed at previous court hearings where absent.
``I hate you in the worst way, and it's not desirable to hate someone,''
Darrell told his mother and Jenkins when he stood to speak. ``I never want
to see either of you ever again. If you happen to get out of prison soon,
I don't want either of you to come near me.''
Time and a string of appeals will tell if the sentence or the women's
pleas to a 55-count indictment hold up.
They pleaded guilty in October to kidnapping, felonious assault, child
endangering, corrupting another with drugs, and marijuana possession.
In court, attorneys said the women will appeal last week's decision by
Cosgrove denying their request to withdraw their guilty pleas and take
their case to trial. An appeal on the length of the sentence is also
likely.
For now, the women must serve the entire sentence without a chance of
parole, prosecutors said.
They will probably be sent together to the Ohio Reformatory for Women in
Marysville, where 1,737 of the state's female prison inmates live.
A prison spokeswoman said the couple would likely be housed in separate
units inside the 250-acre compound northwest of Columbus.
During the sentencing hearing, prosecutors Gregory Peacock and Mary Ann
Kovach told the judge about the life the children lived inside their
Florida Avenue home, and about ``a household of chaos and deprivation.''
Before a mass of cameras, they told how Jenkins targeted the five boys
because of their gender, and one boy in particular because he is biracial.
They told the overflowing gallery filled with family, friends and
curiosity-seekers about the windowless, 3-foot-by-5-foot closet where the
boys were forced to sleep in their own urine-soaked blankets for days or
weeks at a time.
They told how the boys were forced to swallow human and animal feces, lick
toilet bowls as punishment for urinating on the toilet seat, and eat cat
food when Jenkins became angry.
Prosecutors showed pictures of the frail, waiflike boys, their ribs and
collarbones protruding throughtheir skin. They showed photos of the
family's refrigerator and pantry, overflowing with food.
Rowles looked at the photos but showed no emotion. Jenkins didn't look,
her eyes focused downward on a piece of paper.
Peacock described the night last April when Darrell and his two younger
brothers, 8 and 10, broke out of their upstairs closet, and how the
youngest, stuck on the roof, begged not to be left behind.
``They were not simply running away; they were escaping their home,''
Peacock said.
All the children are in foster homes. A juvenile judge last year refused
to give Rowles visitation.
One father walked out of court and passed reporters in tears without
commenting. It was unclear if the other children's fathers were there.
Darrell told the court that Christmas and birthday memories were of the
abuse he and his brothers endured in 2002 and parts of 2003.
``For example, on Christmas you beat us, then gave us gifts, but the next
day you grounded us and destroyed our gifts. I remember not even getting
gifts on Christmas. That really hurt,'' he said.
``I hate my birthday. I have no memories of a birthday. All I can remember
is Alice hitting me in the face with a shoe and saying, `This is for good
will.' ''
The bespectacled teen, dressed in a navy blue sweater and gold chains,
laughed and shook hands with his brother when he was done speaking.
Cosgrove commended the courage of the boys for escaping their home and
telling their story to authorities.
She also asked the women if they had anything to say prior to sentencing.
Rowles, 31, replied defiantly: ``Not a thing.''
Jenkins, 28, said simply, ``No, your honor.''
Defense attorneys Don Malarcik and Kirk Migdal, who previously asked
Cosgrove to appoint the women new attorneys to handle their appeal, said
the women could not express any remorse and make any statements while
their appeals were pending.
Last fall, Cosgrove rejected a plea offer prosecutors and defense
attorneys reached. The judge reportedly felt the 15-year sentence the
woman were prepared to accept was insufficient, and she wanted to retain
discretion in sentencing.
In October, the women pleaded guilty to the entire indictment. In
December, they tried to retract the pleas after an expert said four of the
boys suffered from rumination, an eating disorder that caused them to
regurgitate their food.
The expert refused to testify for the women, and after defense lawyers
could not find another expert during Christmas week, Cosgrove denied the
motion to withdraw the plea, saying the rumination defense was groundless
and that the case had been delayed too long.
Migdal and Malarcik said their clients hope a successful appeal and trial
will give them an arena to tell their side of the story.
``Alice has a lot to say. Today was not the forum. We hope the decision
will be overturned, and she's going to have an opportunity to get her side
of the story out, to get the facts out and have a jury decide this
matter,'' Malarcik said.
Homo-Fascism
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