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Two Men Charged With Raping 11 Year Old Girl At Slumber PartyLANSING, Ill. — Police have arrested two men, accusing them of  sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl who was at the home attending a slumber party at one of the suspect’s home.

The girl was attending a birthday party sleep-over for a 12-year-old classmate when she was instructed to go to the basement to retrieve some blankets. It was down there that police accuse Steven Johnson, 19, and Daniel Rucker, 20, of sexually assaulting her.

Both men have been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault. Investigators say one of the men is cooperating and has provided a written statement.

“As a parent, you would never think something like this would take place at a 12-year-old’s birthday party,” said Lansing Police Detective Sgt. Scott Bailey in a news release. “What happened to this young girl is horrific.”

Other adults were in the home at the time, and police were seeking their cooperation in the investigation.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKSJ42VBXNAFJLOH54Y3K4KTXU Heather Habilatory

    Do I have to stalk my own kid when she goes on sleepovers?

  • soplisako80

    My 12 yr old asked me to go to a sleep over and as I was talking about it with my boyfriend I brought up something like this happening… He called me crazy and said I read to many horror stories. I think he is wrong I don’t think i read to many I think he reads to little.. As for my daughter she opted to stay home and have a friend stay with her, without me ever needing to give her an answer about the sleepover.

    I hope these fuckers get what is coming to them! I couldn’t imagine anybody doing that to my baby!! It just breaks my heart!

  • Anonymous

    in. sane.

    this makes me wonder how truly socially unacceptable it would be, while dropping a child off at a sleepover, to let the adults in attendance know that they will all be killed if something bad happens.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D5PKUBLEDATKIOTLCOF3M7KHGI Danielle

    How horrible. These days kids are not safe anywhere. I have two little girls so a story like this makes me just want to keep them locked up in the house forever. That is just not realistic though.

  • Athena

    I don’t think parents these days work as hard to know whose house they’re allowing their child to go to. I, personally, wouldn’t drop a daughter off at a house with teenage/young adult males to spend the night.

    There’s nothing wrong with allowing a child to sleep over at someone’s house. Just KNOW where they’re going, for Christ’s sake. Go in with them and talk to the parents if you have any concerns or curiosity. Just a phone call to the parents isn’t good enough because, while you’ve spoken with an adult, you never know what other adults may be hanging out.

    It floors me that parents would rather keep their kids at home than do a little parental networking. You need to know your kids’ friends’ parents for a variety of reasons, whether they’re sleeping over or not.

  • Athena

    I don’t think parents these days work as hard to know whose house they’re allowing their child to go to. I, personally, wouldn’t drop a daughter off at a house with teenage/young adult males to spend the night.

    There’s nothing wrong with allowing a child to sleep over at someone’s house. Just KNOW where they’re going, for Christ’s sake. Go in with them and talk to the parents if you have any concerns or curiosity. Just a phone call to the parents isn’t good enough because, while you’ve spoken with an adult, you never know what other adults may be hanging out.

    It floors me that parents would rather keep their kids at home than do a little parental networking. You need to know your kids’ friends’ parents for a variety of reasons, whether they’re sleeping over or not.

  • Anonymous

    This. My friends rarely know their kids’ friends’ parents. But they don’t want to take the time to go hang out with them because they’re too busy worrying about their own social lives.

    Dropping your kids off for a sleepover shouldn’t be like dropping them off at a stranger’s house. Last time I dropped a kid off for a party/sleepover, I hung out for a half hour after dropping her off, met all the members of the family, and got a tour of their house. When I left, the parents gave me a magnum of good red wine (bonus!). And that wasn’t even my kid.

    (There was a teen boy in the house, but after watching him expertly twirl his baton and then borrow eyelash adhesive from me, I didn’t think he would be a threat to the little girls.)

  • Anonymous

    I went to and had a bunch of sleep overs when I was little. It was just my dad and I growing up and most of my friends moms were single, so my dad was more than happy to have their moms hang out for a little bit after dropping their daughters off, and they were more than happy to have my dad hang out for a bit if he was dropping me off, lol. All my friends loved sleeping over at my house; they called my dad “the cool dad” because he let us stay up late watching scary movies, pigging out on chips, and would get up early and make us all a huge breakfast.

    My father is the type of person who’s cautious of everyone. He raised me to always go with my gut instincts, especially if I feel like I’m in danger. As a kid I was completely oblivious to the horrors that go on in the world, like what happened in this article. However, now that I’m an adult and have a better understanding of my dad’s personality type, I’m positive that every time he dropped me off for a sleep over scenarios like this probably played out in his mind. I now know why he was so protective of me when I was growing up (sometimes bordering on over-protection). When I used to get mad at my dad because he wouldn’t let me go to the mall with my friends unless an adult was going, I’d say “when I have kids I’m gonna let them do whatever they want!” and I’d accuse him of ruining my life by being so protective. My dad would just shake his head laugh.

    Now I know that there’s people like these two sick fucks in the world and that they’re who my dad was protecting me from.

  • Anonymous

    I went to and had a bunch of sleep overs when I was little. It was just my dad and I growing up and most of my friends moms were single, so my dad was more than happy to have their moms hang out for a little bit after dropping their daughters off, and they were more than happy to have my dad hang out for a bit if he was dropping me off, lol. All my friends loved sleeping over at my house; they called my dad “the cool dad” because he let us stay up late watching scary movies, pigging out on chips, and would get up early and make us all a huge breakfast.

    My father is the type of person who’s cautious of everyone. He raised me to always go with my gut instincts, especially if I feel like I’m in danger. As a kid I was completely oblivious to the horrors that go on in the world, like what happened in this article. However, now that I’m an adult and have a better understanding of my dad’s personality type, I’m positive that every time he dropped me off for a sleep over scenarios like this probably played out in his mind. I now know why he was so protective of me when I was growing up (sometimes bordering on over-protection). When I used to get mad at my dad because he wouldn’t let me go to the mall with my friends unless an adult was going, I’d say “when I have kids I’m gonna let them do whatever they want!” and I’d accuse him of ruining my life by being so protective. My dad would just shake his head laugh.

    Now I know that there’s people like these two sick fucks in the world and that they’re who my dad was protecting me from.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with your statements 100%. Though not fool proof they are about the best anyone can do.

  • Anonymous

    Two less criminals among us.

  • hookerpie

    When I was growing up my parents didnt take to much care on what we were doing. My mother was to hung up on what my father was doing to notice us coming home stoned or drunk. Having 2 young daughters now myself 8 & 3 I couldnt imagine not knowing whats going on in their life. I feel at times I am to over protective but then I read something sick like this and snap back to reality. They need to take these 2 sick fuckers in an alley and blow their shit eating heads off.

  • Dirk

    Your boyfriend is right. He should be frightened that his partner derives life lessons from the freak show that is DD.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think as a kid I was allowed to go to 3 slumber parties in my whole childhood. After I was a teenager it was a little better (mind you I hung out with nice girls who didn’t party but rather went too much to the mall).

    My dad didn’t like having other people’s kids in our house very much either.

    All I know is that now, when my kids wanna have a sleepover I might not let them go but offer them to have it here. I don’t care if my house isn’t clean I want all of my kids’ friends to hang out at MY house so I know them. I will welcome any parent for as long as they wanna stay to check us out.

  • Summer

    Some people call it paranoia, some call it vigilence. While something like this is likely to happen, the fact of the matter is that it does happen…. every damn day. No, I don’t think I would lock my child up and never let them go to a friend’s house, but I would make sure that I knew the parents and that I knew exactly what adults would be at the party. You should never allow a child to stay with someone you don’t trust, and you can’t trust someone you don’t know. The best way to prevent shit like this is to get to know the parents of the kids your child hangs out with.

  • Anonymous

    Hope for the best, plan for the worst. Take reasonable precautions, and teach your kids to be alert to their surrounding and use common sense.

    But don’t make your children live under constant surveillance out of fear that some highly-unlikely but horrific incident could occur.

  • Anonymous

    I wish I could like this twice.

    DD =/= Real Life.

    Thank god!

  • Anonymous

    I always wonder about parents who don’t want the kids hanging out at their house. Our house was always the spot to hang, my parents were really tolerant of our messes and noise (I realize now just how tolerant!), but I know now they just wanted to know what we were up to, and to be involved in my life by knowing who I hung out with (my parents were sneaky like that).

    Such a small thing, encouraging the neighbor kids to hang out at your house, but so useful in keeping you connected with your kids.

  • Anonymous

    I always wonder about parents who don’t want the kids hanging out at their house. Our house was always the spot to hang, my parents were really tolerant of our messes and noise (I realize now just how tolerant!), but I know now they just wanted to know what we were up to, and to be involved in my life by knowing who I hung out with (my parents were sneaky like that).

    Such a small thing, encouraging the neighbor kids to hang out at your house, but so useful in keeping you connected with your kids.

  • Anonymous

    Deety you are spot on. I am raising the youngest of my four kids now, he’s 14, and as with all the older ones, I welcome all the kids to hang out at my place. It has kept me in the loops of their lives. I know first hand it can be messy, dishes and glasses can pile up quickly. Sometimes I find more orphaned socks than pairs that belong to our family. Food vanishes from the pantry and fridge. Garbage needs to be taken out more often. That is the worst of it – no lie. It is SOOOOOO well worth knowing my kids and their circles of friends.
    I must be doing something right, because the older kids come home from college every weekend and bring their friends :)

  • Anonymous

    Even in my late twenties, when I was married and living in an apartment, my mom would let me use her house to throw my parties, so long as I cleaned up the next day. And it’s the same ‘kids’ that hung out in high school that still come over to party, call my mother ‘Mama’, and drop by or call my mom even when I’m not around. Mama refers to them as “The Usual Suspects”, and playing with their kids has kept her from pressuring me to have my own too quickly.

    All around, it’s a win-win.

  • Anonymous

    Even in my late twenties, when I was married and living in an apartment, my mom would let me use her house to throw my parties, so long as I cleaned up the next day. And it’s the same ‘kids’ that hung out in high school that still come over to party, call my mother ‘Mama’, and drop by or call my mom even when I’m not around. Mama refers to them as “The Usual Suspects”, and playing with their kids has kept her from pressuring me to have my own too quickly.

    All around, it’s a win-win.

  • Anonymous

    Even in my late twenties, when I was married and living in an apartment, my mom would let me use her house to throw my parties, so long as I cleaned up the next day. And it’s the same ‘kids’ that hung out in high school that still come over to party, call my mother ‘Mama’, and drop by or call my mom even when I’m not around. Mama refers to them as “The Usual Suspects”, and playing with their kids has kept her from pressuring me to have my own too quickly.

    All around, it’s a win-win.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WUSPJ56WM63ZAO7MYQGILWWWPM aliceinchainsboy

    some days a rope is all thats needed

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F2L6QGZ5E3SIRNQOPKFCIFHEAY R Smith

    You’re stupid, THIS IS real life right here.  This is what happened to America after the 60′s and “free love/civil rights”  yeah let’s give these animals the right to do whatever they want, and look what has happened.  shut up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F2L6QGZ5E3SIRNQOPKFCIFHEAY R Smith

    yeah, it’s so HIGHLY UNLIKELY I read these stories every effing DAY !!!  IT’S NOT “highly unlikely”  It’s almost 50/50 ESPECIALLY when it comes to sleepovers, etc., right?  allegedly the highly unlike scenario is the one with the total strangers. 

  • Dirk

    You are aware that slave owners routinely raped and abused their slaves, right?
    Too bad you lost your country in the 60′s… the 1860′s.

  • Dirk

    You are aware that slave owners routinely raped and abused their slaves, right?
    Too bad you lost your country in the 60′s… the 1860′s.

  • DamagedGoods

    Yes, I’m sure raping 11 year olds is exactly what the civil rights movement had in mind…

    Also, starting off an argument with “you’re stupid” is considered poor debate form.