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(Cont'd from page 2) problem in the community. The spokesperson also cited complaints from parents whose. children had been bothered by adults at the local shopping mall. A 32-year old Silverton man, Jerome Newton, was convicted of 13 counts of rape and seven counts of GSI. The jury reduced one charge of forcible rape to rape: Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Gorman had dismissed five rape charges against Newton, calling him "overcharged."

Rape is a first degree felony, carrying a four-25 year sentence and a possible $10,000 fine. If the victim is under 13 and compelled by force, it carries a life sentence. Rape involves sexual "conduct:" intercourse in the vagina, anus. or mouth.

⚫ GSI involves touching erogenbus zones, or sexual "contact." force or threats, impairing judgment with alcohol or drugs. or contact with people under 13. regardless of whether the defendant knows the victim is that young. GSI is a fourthdegree felony, with six months to five year sentence and a $2.500 fine possible: GSI with someone under 13 is a third-degree felony with a penalty of one to 10 years and a $5,000 fine

Newton's attorney, Wilbur Outlaw, had no trouble proving that several of the victims returned to Newton's house across from their Catholic elementary school time and time again. The children, one girl as young as eight, testified tearfully that they went there for soda pop, pornography posing nude, oral sex, and as "much as $5. including in the seized evidence was a copy of The Boy A Photographic Essay.

The kids in such cases really go through the ringer." attorney Marck Sauers told GCN, noting that the prosecutors are treating GSI cases with age differences on the same level as homicides. assigning two prosecutors. "Force can be broadly defined as a hug Sauers said He represented a man charged with GS! for hugging a 16-year old from behind and touching the

young man's erect penis through

his pants. "It was really a specious charge. The young man

changed his mind" about "rough-housing" with the man at work and told his parents, who called the police..

Sauers says he negotiated a plea-bargain to sexual imposition and won commitment for his client to the county's Work Release Program instead of the Workhouse. Under this nearly unique "diversion" project, a convicted defendant lives under strict rules at the YMCA and keeps his job. In this case, the program rejected the man because he is self-employed and had been convicted of a sex offense since the project houses several young offenders. Judge

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the sentence and placed the man on one year's probation in mid-January.

Sexual imposition Involves contact with force or a threat, if the offender knows victim's judgment is impaired or unaware of what's happening, or if he or she is over 12 but under 15 and the offender is at least 18 and four or more years older. The third-degree misdemeanor car ries a 60-day sentence and a $500 fine.

Sauers joined attorney Jim Feldman in another GSI case a year ago and won a similar charge reduction, but Judge Harry Klussmeyer meted out the maximum sentence.in the Workhouse. courtesy of GCN NEWS i

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Lesbian library relocates

Alexandria Lesbian Library In Huntington, MA The New existence since 1974, has moved to a farm in western Massachu setts from its original location In Chicago. The library will con tinue to serve as a national les blan archives, with focus on col lection and preservation of the varied experiences of lesbian

lives and cultures. All lesbians are encouraged to visit and contribute to the library. For information write: New Alexandria Library, Box 111, Huntington, MA 01050.

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