Man Sentenced to Life Sentence After Impregnating 13-year-old, Should More Pedophiles Face Tougher Sentences?
A 34-year-old Georgia man was sentenced to life in prison plus two years after being convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
Stephen Troy Kendrick was found guilty by a Fulton County jury last week of statutory rape, aggravated child molestation, child molestation, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and criminal trespassing stemming from his “relationship” with a 13-year-old girl.
According to reports, Kendrick met the girl when he was a boarder in her parents’ home. After they became uncomfortable with how close the man had gotten to their daughter, they asked Kendrick to leave. Apparently, that didn’t end the sexual relationship and the girl later ran away with Kendrick.
After reporting their daughter missing, the pair were found sleeping together in a vacant apartment building two-months later. Initially Kendrick told police the girl was his 18-year-old cousin, but they later determined she was the missing 13-year-old girl.
While some may scoff at the life sentence handed down by the judge, it’s clear he was trying to send a strong message.
Should more pedophiles face similarly harsh penalties?
What do you think?
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QON/GINA:
Stop! Just stop!
I never implied that boys cannot be raped. You are so f(u)cking full of it.
“Im positively disgusted by what LaDreaming was saying. Its just sheer hatred of boys and men emanating from her dried up carcass.” – Gosh, and now you are trying to start something with me so that you can rant. I bet you are itching to derail on this article and turn this into your personal haven and talk about how much Black boys/men can do no wrong and everything that is wrong with them is because of Black women.
Again STOP! JUST STOP!
@LaDreaming86
No. Not at all. But there are a lot of young male victims of sexual abuse who never reveal the crimes committed againts them because of bigots like you.
Oh, soooooo, now I am the reason male sexual abuse victims remain silenced?
REALLY?
QON, JUST SHUT THE F(UCK) UP!
@LaDreaming86
Girl. Can you read? I said because of “bigots like you” contributing to a culture where boys are meant to like sex so if they are abused its because somehting is wrong with them. As boys they are supposed to want it from any and everyone. Their erections, according to you, are confirmation.
Yeah, shut the FUKK UP, QUEEN MAMMY BOY!
I don’t think the sentence was too harsh. However, I do think that the young girl should be held accountable for her actions as well. I don’t think she should go to jail, but I do believe there needs to be some form of communication or action taken in order for her to learn her role in this. 3 is not the same as it was 20 or even 30 years ago. Like it or not, this is life and the things we do have consequences..some good..some bad. No matter how old you are. This is just sad all around for the girl and now a child having a child, just terrible.
*13*
Wow!!!
A 13 year old cannot legally consent to sex. An adult cannot legally have sex with an individual under 16. There *is* no responsibility for her. She was raped.
HER PUNISHMENT IS BEING PREGNANT AT 13
They both should be held accountable…… There are some girls out there that dont look their age and definitely dont act their age….. For the most part she was in aggreement….. There should be some accountability.. That should be the lesson for both parties
Janet you are a sick B#tch
She is a 13 year old little girl, she can not be held accountable for her actions when it comes to interactions with adults, she was obviously manipulated by this man. The is a serious problem with people treating kids like they are adults.
Yes. What this person did was abhorrent. 13 year old’s cannot consent to sexual relations with an adult legally for a reason and those reasons are powerful and valid. And the people on these pages trying to pretend that blame in this situation can somehow be “shared”…yeah, ya’ll will get yours one day and I hope it doesn’t hurt too much.
@ Jenn: You are correct she was raped, BUT it also says this young girl RAN AWAY TO BE WITH HIM…now, I understand it sounds harsh..but I’m not asking that the girl go to jail. I think she needs some type of counseling to understand her actions were not right and how to move forward. Or are we supposed to just sweep it under the rug and excuse her for running away to be with a man who CLEARLY new better? I get the legal side of this, but I’m asking people to use COMMON sense as well. What happened to this little girl should never happen, but it does. Sometimes willingly, so who is going to tell those little girls they deserve better than that? Or are we supposed to just wait for them to appear on the next episode of “16 and Pregant” and then talk bad about them? And if the young girl is that naiive, that’s all the more reason why counseling needs to be given.
*pregnant*
I agree that someone should talk to her about how what happened to her was wrong, but no I don’t believe she should be berated because she is incapable of understand why what happened is wrong. The mental development simply is not there at 13. A 13 year old girl who runs away with a man almost three times her age has something else going on and likely needs counseling for issues that existed before this man.
well lookie here…. another pedophile story. SMH excuse my language but… http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/teacher-leaves-wife-kids-high-school-student-225300504.html
@Chanela
@QoNC
Had the genders been reversed the woman would be applauded… Although she is of legal age, women feel like that man should be in jail & the woman is a victim…
@LaDreaming86 b*tch, you got caught in a corner with your hypocrisy, and b*tch you can’t move… Luckily alot of society reflects your double standard beliefs
Oh my goodness – Another comment that I am actually laughing out loud to.
1. You know nothing about my beliefs based on one comment that you and others like you with your sick minds have misconstrued.
2. ” Luckily alot of society reflects your double standard beliefs” – Huh? What? This doesn’t even make sense in the context that you are using.
3. Being a hypocrite in this situation would mean that I don’t conform to my own beliefs. And the last time I checked, I have never sexually abused a child. Nor have I ever encouraged a relationship between a minor and adult.
4. I wasn’t ‘caught’ in anything, as I was never hiding.
Honestly, I agree with the sentencing. He shouldn’t have been messing with a minor in the first place. Say she looked 18…he still needed to be responsible and shit..check an ID or something…but I’m sure he knew she was 13.
The parents need to be counseled on how to parent their child as well..at 13 she’s old enough to know about abstinence…at the very least, she should know about safe sex. The daughter needs to learn how to respect herself as well. Running away from home to be with a man shouldn’t be her priority at that age.
Lastly, I can’t help but wonder if the crime would have been as harsh if it were a white man having sex with a minor…
I think adults sometimes need to remember what it’s like to be young. As I’ve said before, there is no excuse for what this man did. He deserves the sentence he got. If there happened to be anything harsher(castration?) he would deserve that too because chances are he probably has done this to another child. However, we have got to get out of the mentality that all girls who find themselves in these situations are manipulated. A lot of girls are and then there are some who are not. As kids, it’s probably safe to say that all of us had minor school girl/boy crushes on people who were older.(Best friend’s cute older bro or sis home from college, that TA, or the bad boy across the street.) It was fun to think about it even if we knew we couldn’t and shouldn’t act on it. It’s part of growing up. There are some girls that do act on it. This doesn’t take away from the fact that whatever adult who replies in kind is a scumbag pedophile. It does need to be examined. If you find out your son, daughter, nephew, niece etc, seriously pursued a much older man or woman, and the other party was a good person and didn’t act on it, you’d talk to them and try to figure out what was going on. At least any good parent or relative would. Why do these discussions not happen when the other party are not so good?
A 13 year old or 12 year old cannot consent to sex. A 13 year old who “pursues” a grown person (as silly as that sounds) has serious psychological issues and should be taken to a specialist ASAP. More than likely they were sexually abused themselves, because a child who pursues an adult is NOT normal behavior. Children should fear adults, especially ones they are not familiar with.
I think that all sex offenders (including pedofiles and rapists) should be offered castration as a voluntary treatment option. It’s offered in Germany and I’ve ready that it is extremely effective (only about 3% of offenders re-offend). This would keep the many sex offenders who receive short sentences from hurting others when released from prison. My more conservative side thinks that it should be a mandatory punishment for serial offenders.
bury him, and those like him, under the jail.
Yesssss! Experts say that the reason why the sex trafficking of young girls has exploded recently is because the penalties for drug dealing are too stiff. So, the cowards turn to abusing girls. We should make the sexual abuse and trafficking penalties just as punitive, if not more so.
His thing should be definitely cut off!
These women who are blaming the 13 year old are really showing what went on in your lives. To actually blame an underage child for the sexual activity of an grown man is so pitiful. Is that what your dad or most likely your mom’s boyfriend told you when he came into your bedroom at night? You b*tches have to be victim of child abuse to think that a child is responsible for this mess.