I’ve written several times about Gregory Haidl, the Orange County *cough* alleged *cough* rapist who videotaped himself anally penetrating an unconscious girl with a pool cue — but managed to get a mistrial through an astonishing web of lies and character assassination against the “slut” (his lawyer’s words) he raped. (More links to my past posts at that last link; some of the more astonishing stuff here.) He’s a bad, bad man.
Well, you’ll never guess what’s happened to dear ol’ Greg! Turns out he met a new underaged girl at a party thrown for him the night of the hung jury in the first rape case! Two weeks later, he was caught having sex with this 16-year-old girl, and how he’s facing statutory-rape charges on top of his rape-rape charges.
It gets weirder: The girl apparently doesn’t want to cooperate with police (the sex was apparently consensual this time). So she (and/or Haidl’s dad) hired an attorney to put up road blocks to the investigation. The attorney? A fellow named Adam Stull. Stull himself has a criminal record for…wait for it…having sex with an underaged girl!
Stull was convicted of six counts (including “penetration with a foreign object” — seems to be all the rage in California) in 1992, while he was a deputy district attorney helping teach a mock-trial class at a local high school. He ended up getting his law license suspended for 16 months. When asked by a reporter why he had sex with one of his high school students, he came up with this brilliant response: “You have to understand she looked 30. She was about 5’11”, about 130 pounds. Beautiful girl.”
Obviously a guy with a lot of credence in a statutory rape case.
Have I mentioned that Greg Haidl’s dad is the assistant sheriff of Orange County who made millions selling used government vehicles? (Or more accurately was until a couple weeks ago, when he finally resigned in disgrace.) Or that his ex-wife (the rapist’s mom) is suing the police for $15 million for daring to arrest their rapist son?
To hell with the bunch of them.
Zing!
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Gee, how come we never see any of this on "The O.C."?
Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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