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Consenting Adults Saved By The Videotape
A woman cries rape -- a charge that could have put a number of men in jail -- but for the videotape. From a story by R. Scott Moxley in the OC Weekly:

You’ll never convince six lucky Orange County guys that porn is bad: a single raunchy sex video is keeping them out of prison. Of course, these 20-year-olds couldn’t have foreseen this fate when they filmed their wild gangbang after a night of drinking at a Fullerton bar.

This tale begins in the wee hours of June 6, 2004, when a distraught Tamara Anne Moonier entered a Fullerton police station. She said she’d been kidnapped a few hours earlier from a parking lot at Heroes Bar & Grill, hooded and driven to an unknown residence. Moonier, then 28, told police that a group of men brutally raped her at gunpoint for more than an hour, forced her to perform numerous degrading sex acts on film, demanded her silence and then released her.

“She said she feared for her safety,” a law-enforcement officer told the Weekly.

With money from a victims’ assistance program, Moonier immediately moved from her Fullerton apartment to Dana Point. Meanwhile, alarmed police detectives used her descriptions to launch a manhunt. Within about a week of the alleged crime, Moonier had picked one of the suspects out of a photographic lineup. Eventually all of the men were identified.

But Fullerton police refused to file charges. The suspects had voluntarily turned over the sex video Moonier had described. It showed no gun, no threats of violence and no force.

In fact, the woman not only directed action at times but complimented penis sizes, complained about the lighting, nonchalantly took a cell phone call during the gangbang, yelled, “Get it up!” when some of the men lost their erections, called herself a slut and demanded ejaculations—in her mouth.

She also laughed at least 27 times during the sex, moaned intensely when she wasn’t laughing and cheered the men to sexual heroics with, “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!”

“I just like sex,” Moonier said at one point on the tape. “I can’t help it.”

Deputy District Attorney Paul J. Chrisopoulos will use the homemade video as Exhibit 1 in his case against Moonier. Last summer, the Orange County grand jury, mostly retired folks, had the thrill (if you want to call it that) of watching the exploits of this petite mother of two children, then toddlers. They indicted her for filing false police reports, committing perjury and stealing funds from a taxpayer-funded victims’ program.

Posted by aalkon at February 21, 2006 9:27 AM

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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld

While bearing that in mind...

There's got to be something more from this story than just saying "So be sure to videotape your gangbangs, kiddies!"

A 28yo mother of two is hardly a child, but it's still safe to wager that this woman doesn't herself come from a safe and loving home. Her decision to press charges --whether groundless or or not-- suggests that these people's heads were not where they'd need to be for a mutually rewarding session of clustered horseplay.

The problem is isn't vulgar, group sex per se. The legal system worked, but whose greater interests were protected?

Posted by: Crid at February 21, 2006 10:44 AM

the legal system worked?

no it didnt, the only reason they're not in prison is cause the were lucky enough to tape it

that is not the leagal system 'working' that was just dumb luck

they aught to take the womans children away and give her the eaquivilent jail time of six agrivated rape and kidnapping convictions

that would be the leagal system working

Posted by: john at February 21, 2006 11:17 AM

Wow.

Remind me to be ashamed of conservatism, whydoncha.

Posted by: Crid at February 21, 2006 11:19 AM

no it didnt, the only reason they're not in prison is cause the were lucky enough to tape it

that is not the leagal system 'working' that was just dumb luck

they aught to take the womans children away and give her the eaquivilent jail time of six agrivated rape and kidnapping convictions

that would be the leagal system working

Posted by: john at February 21, 2006 11:17 AM

I think he mispelled all those words on purpose.

Crid, you are a thinking person, not a conservative. Thinking people are not Liberal or Conservative, they just are.

Posted by: John O at February 21, 2006 12:40 PM

I consider it nonthink to say you're on a particular side, unless you fall lockstep with that side on every single issue - unlikely, for most people. Many people, however, prefer to side with "the team" rather than do the hard work of getting their brains into gear.

Posted by: Amy Alkon at February 21, 2006 3:45 PM

i agree, the system did not really work on this one, let's face it, due to some bad history the legal system has "over" powered women when it comes to certain crimes. These guys WERE lucky, they should play the lotto. Had they not recorded the session, they would be in prison being the center of attention themselves in their own gang-bang, no pun intended. This woman SHOULD get the eqivelant of jail time that the 6 guys were looking at, 4 yr's is a slap on the hand for what she was willing to put the guys through. Whatever happened to the whole "woman equality" issue? She SHOULD be made an example to all (women & men) of the harshness of filing fraudulent police reports.

Posted by: jc at March 31, 2006 11:27 AM

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