12 year old raped with Wii remote for teasing 26 year old

[Eri]

A Utah man is in jail after he raped a 12-year-old boy with a Wii remote, according to authorities in in a Salt Lake City suburb. Police say the 26-year-old assailant was angered that the boy and his friends had been teasing him.

Nicholas Parry is in the Salt Lake County jail facing charges of "object rape" and aggravated sexual assault. The fact "object rape" exists on some state's books is as skin-crawling as the circumstances alleged here.

Cops say Parry was at a house where the victim and his friends were having a sleepover. Parry got drunk and became angry that the kids were teasing him a police lieutenant said. "He reacted by grabbing a 12-year-old boy and sexually abusing him using a Wii game controller," reports KSL-TV of Salt Lake City.

The other boys saw the attack; their parents were asleep elsewhere in the home. The next day, cops say Parry attacked the victim again even though he'd sobered up. He was arrested after confessing the assault to a neighbor.

http://kotaku.com/5847182/object-rape-by-wii-remote-sends-utah-man-to-jail
What's with men losing it and assaulting children? What's with kids being little mouthy jerks (more so than usual?)?

Everyone needs to chill out.

 

[ScrubberDucky]

As terrifying and sickening as that was, my first thought on the situation was "Oh shit, shitstorm inbound."

ITT: People blaming the child for instigating, people blaming the adult for not being responsible, people saying both were at fault, and finally, people saying either side was awesome for different reasons.

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

Rape is a despicable, horrible act, one of the worst known to mankind.
Having said that, mouthy pre-teens need to know when to shut the hell up and have some respect for their elders. Hopefully this is a lesson for everyone.

 

[legion431]

Umm...okay, that's just sick, twisted and incredibly disturbing.

 

[Odd Water]

I'll never look at my Wii Remote the same again... >.<

 

[TwoSidesOneCoin]

As terrifying and sickening as that was, my first thought on the situation was "Oh shit, shitstorm inbound."

ITT: People blaming the child for instigating, people blaming the adult for not being responsible, people saying both were at fault, and finally, people saying either side was awesome for different reasons.

You forgot to add the whole "Video games drive people to commit rape crimes", "video games drive people to violence".

That being said, we can now properly /thread.

Although on a side note, I don't think many people will come to this thread and say the kid is awesome for being raped with a will remote.

 

[Von Strimmer]

Will Fox blame gaming or drinking?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

As terrifying and sickening as that was, my first thought on the situation was "Oh shit, shitstorm inbound."

ITT: People blaming the child for instigating, people blaming the adult for not being responsible, people saying both were at fault, and finally, people saying either side was awesome for different reasons.

Yep, you've summed it up quite nicely.

Rape is a despicable, horrible act, one of the worst known to mankind.
Having said that, mouthy pre-teens need to know when to shut the hell up and have some respect for their elders. Hopefully this is a lesson for everyone.

And it's posts like this that remind me of why I really hate certain elements of gamer culture. We get it, it's annoying when little kids go online and start shouting obscenities -- but it's not anywhere near as annoying as when a grown man does it. I've seen kids doing it once or twice. Adults do it all the freakin' time. Also, when it involves kids, I've had good success getting them to calm down because I'm an adult, a pre-service teacher, and I know how to get kids to listen to me. Seriously, all you guys whining about screaming pre-teens are just proving that you have no idea how to handle kids, or that you are kids yourselves. It's not /that/ difficult.

Wishing horrible things on kids because their parents are absent and you aren't mature enough to handle the situation? Yeah, that reflects well on both you and gamers as a whole[footnote]That was sarcasm, in case it wasn't clear enough.[/footnote].

 

[Kae]

Well obviously this man needs to be locked up for the rest of his life because it doesn't matter whatever the child said since nothing the child could have said justifies rape in any way shape or form.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Jesus.

You know a story's brutal when it makes you absentmindedly squirm. I'm going to look at something a bit more cheerful now.

 

[dagens24]

Rape is a despicable, horrible act, one of the worst known to mankind.
Having said that, mouthy pre-teens need to know when to shut the hell up and have some respect for their elders. Hopefully this is a lesson for everyone.

What a truely disgusting sentiment; first and foremost, there is NOTHING the kid could have said that warrents being RAPED. Second of all, the concept that because a person is older that they are somehow more deserving of respect is ridiculous.

 

[New Frontiersman]

... The fuck!? That's messed up! Drunk or not that shitbag deserves to go to jail. Forever.

The next day, cops say Parry attacked the victim again even though he'd sobered up. He was arrested after confessing the assault to a neighbor.

It wasn't even that he was drunk, he was just a sick fucker! What was wrong with him, how could that possibly not be massively disproportionate retribution for being teased?

people saying either side was awesome for different reasons.

I don't think anyone anywhere would refer to a rapist as "awesome".

Having said that, mouthy pre-teens need to know when to shut the hell up and have some respect for their elders. Hopefully this is a lesson for everyone.

Since when is rape a good fucking lesson! Rape is not a suitable punishment for mouthing off! This isn't a good lesson for anyone! A man raped a child!


This whole situation is sick and wrong...
That poor child... I can't imagine what this will do to him...

 

[shrekfan246]

A Utah man is in jail after he raped a 12-year-old boy with a Wii remote, according to authorities in in a Salt Lake City suburb. Police say the 26-year-old assailant was angered that the boy and his friends had been teasing him.

Nicholas Parry is in the Salt Lake County jail facing charges of "object rape" and aggravated sexual assault. The fact "object rape" exists on some state's books is as skin-crawling as the circumstances alleged here.

Cops say Parry was at a house where the victim and his friends were having a sleepover. Parry got drunk and became angry that the kids were teasing him a police lieutenant said. "He reacted by grabbing a 12-year-old boy and sexually abusing him using a Wii game controller," reports KSL-TV of Salt Lake City.

The other boys saw the attack; their parents were asleep elsewhere in the home. The next day, cops say Parry attacked the victim again even though he'd sobered up. He was arrested after confessing the assault to a neighbor.

http://kotaku.com/5847182/object-rape-by-wii-remote-sends-utah-man-to-jail
What's with men losing it and assaulting children? What's with kids being little mouthy jerks (more so than usual?)?

Everyone needs to chill out.

What I'm wondering is why a 26-year old man was in the same home as a bunch of 12-year old boys having a sleepover while the parents were asleep. . . I don't even have words to describe how disturbing that is to me. I mean, that's like something right out of a child molester's diary.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Thats still scarily not the saddest, scariest, or most depraved thing I've heard come out of Utah.

reminds me of the Tosh.0 skit though.

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

Okay, people need to calm the hell down and get off my back. I'm not the dude that raped the kid, so don't take your disgust with this article out on me. All I'm saying is that I'm sick of little kids mouthing off because they know the adults can't do anything to them. Afterall, hitting them will only get you a prison sentence. And yes, it's probably the parents' fault for not raising their kids proper.
But the simple fact is that if the kid hadn't been making fun of the guy, that never would've happened. He could have avoided it.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Will Fox blame gaming or drinking?

Alcohol companies spend more ad revenue on Fox, I'd say, so that answers that one.

 

[New Frontiersman]

Okay, people need to calm the hell down and get off my back. I'm not the dude that raped the kid, so don't take your disgust with this article out on me. All I'm saying is that I'm sick of little kids mouthing off because they know the adults can't do anything to them. Afterall, hitting them will only get you a prison sentence. And yes, it's probably the parents' fault for not raising their kids proper.
But the simple fact is that if the kid hadn't been making fun of the guy, that never would've happened. He could have avoided it.

You insinuated that being raped was somehow a good moral lesson for the kid, and you're blaming him like it his fault for being raped; and you couldn't have foreseen that that might upset some people?
The proper response to being made fun of is to ignore it, tease back, tell the parents that their child is being unreasonable, rape is never an acceptable solution to this or any situation. It's not the kids fault, and don't act like it was.

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

You insinuated that being raped was somehow a good moral lesson for the kid, and you're blaming him like it his fault for being raped; and you couldn't have foreseen that that might upset some people?
The proper response to being made fun of is to ignore it, tease back, tell the parents that their child is being unreasonable, rape is neve an acceptable solution to this or any situation. It's not the kids fault, and don't act like it was.

Actually, I was honestly expecting to see a few more people saying that pre-teens are too mouthy these days.
Sorry for insinuating that. All I meant was that I hope this unfortunate incident will at least deter other pre-teens from mouthing off to adults, assuming they catch wind of this story.
And yes, I'm sure there will be plenty of people who'll say, "How dare you try to make this a best out of a bad situation when it's so awful?" But whatever. Political correctness is overrated.

 

[Whimsi]

Another example of someone who shouldn't be playing video games...

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

if youre 26 and being upset by young children playing the wii, you need to reevaluate your life. and possibly seek help.