So now the thing that you were jumping up and down saying didn't happen is insignificant?
See, this is where your brain is like a not-brain. Kid rape and kid fucking and attempted coverups and unjust shunning aren't insignificant ever. EVER.
S'a bunch of bullshit that the perpetrators should be fucking ashamed of.
John- I was here for all of this. I will admit to only being peripherally involved, but I was one of the first people Summer called about this. I am telling you the girl's story changed from the onset. She said initially that no touching occurred that I would consider inappropriate. The couple in question appeared to have philosophical beliefs that I am certainly not in-line with, but thinking isn't a crime. Summer seemed to progressively get whipped into a fervor, the story got more dastardly from there, then she started to lash out. I frankly, am glad that all of them are gone.
What this says to me about the Keene activists:
1) Ian has his same weird ideas about young people being able to choose to have sex for themselves.
2) The Keene activists handled this relatively well. Some jumped to conclusions, some kept their heads. They talked with all parties. We generally came to the same conclusions.
3) JJ is a real gem of a guy.
No child has been molested here from what I can ascertain, therefore getting the cops involved is inappropriate.
Well I don't think she's ever claimed the sex happened between these people and a child. As a matter of fact she sez that the dude specifically claimed to have never actually gone through with the sexual act with a kid, apart from letting his kid play with his cock while they were taking a shower, which is as oogy as all fuck but I guess somewhat debatable without (Thankfully!) knowing the details.
On your points -
1. Yes.
2. I have a thing about disclosure. When I see what looks like people covering stuff up or twisting the story (On either side) I get really crabby. Once a scandal happens, I tend to believe the person who jumps up and starts screaming the whole story as loudly as possible. People who hesitate to tell their side make me dubious. Someone from the other side of this thing, rather than just repeating "She's a liar who called the police!" ( A statement that lacks any sort of weight.) should have written up the whole story from the opposing view. What it looks like at this point is that this woman had a negative experience, made it public in high detail, and was met with one or two sentence denials and accusations that she is "Crazy" and "A dirty statist" and so on, and depicting these people as perfectly normal, moral people who have an unusual but perfectly acceptable point of view.
If the girl was lying, someone should have come forward and detailed the entire scuttlebutt the same way she did, and provided multiple sources of conflicting viewpoints and rebutted her point by point. No one did this that I saw. What I saw, repeatedly, is
"She's a liar and a bad person who called the police (But apparently filed no report against anyone.) and she lies and lies and she's crazy." But that's what we got. A bunch of denials and closed mouths and the implication that this was "Keene business" and no one else's, which looks really bad. In general, if you're the "Good guy", this sort of shit needs to be addressed.
I know you, and I trust you as a source with feet on the ground over there, and what you've said certainly sways my opinion of the situation simply on the merit of you being a friend I can trust, but I gotta disagree with you about how this was handled.
3. Everything I've ever heard about JJ is that he's a cool dude. I was pretty surprised about all of this and was wondering if his arm was being twisted by someone who had the ability/power to hold some sort of incentive/disincentive over his head.
As for the police thing - As I understood it, she called the police to get a ride, and filed no report. She used them because she apparently had no one else to call and didn't want to go where JJ said he was taking her. (A stranger's place) This is not something I'd do, personally, but I'm not a twenty something single mom who just moved across the country with my baby and have no resources to get help if I need it, either.