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Hackers Target Town After Dropped Sexual-Assault Case
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Time Magazine
Posted: November 12th, 2013
http://nation.time.com/2013/10/14/hackers-target-town-after-...
The international band of Internet activists known as Anonymous has chosen the rural Missouri town of Maryville as the target of its latest campaign, after the Kansas City Star published a powerful examination of a possible rape case that went unprosecuted by local authorities. Known for successful hacks of organizations ranging from the Church of Scientology to PayPal to the government of Brazil, Anonymous released a statement: If Maryville wont defend these young girls, if the police are too cowardly or corrupt to do their jobs, if justice system has abandoned them, then we will have to stand for them." [Matthew] Barnett was a 17-year-old senior on the Maryville High School football team. Daisy, a freshman cheerleader, was delighted by the senior boys attentions, and ignored her older brothers advice to steer clear of him, [the Star] reported. Barnett, the grandson of former state representative Rex Barnett, later admitted to police that he knew the girl was drinking at his house and that he had sex with her while she was drunk. He loaded the girl, in tears, into his car and left her unconscious on her front porch in subfreezing cold. Much of the town turned on the Coleman family, Daisys mother Melinda was fired from her job, and after the Colemans left town their house burned down under suspicious circumstances. Melinda Coleman is not the only one wondering whether the prominence of Barnetts family had something to do with the decision not to prosecute.
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