Herrera to Prison

From the Lima News in Lima, Ohio


Race driver going to prison
By TIM RAUSCH
419-993-2097
trausch@limanews.com
11.04.2003

OTTAWA - A North Carolina sprint car race driver will be missing some of
the next race season, ordered to spend the next 11 months in prison for
sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl.
Johnny Herrera, 37, of Huntersville, N.C., was sentenced Monday in Putnam
County Com-mon Pleas Court to 11 months in prison for felony importuning and
60 days behind bars for misdemeanor sexual imposition. He was also fined
$2,000.
Herrera pleaded guilty in September to the charges stemming from an
incident with a 14-year-old Kalida girl in June 2002.
"I don't want to ruin Johnny's life, but I think he deserves whatever he
receives," the victim said in a written statement read to the judge.
The victim's mother said the girl was "awestruck" with Herrera's
celebrity status.
"How could you do this to our daughter," the mother said. "You were the
adult and knew right from wrong."
Herrera briefly spoke, saying the incident was "out of character" for him
and that he was sorry.
Judge Randall Basinger pressed Herrera about the difference in his
version of the events as compared to the victim's. Basinger said he believed
the girl's story that more happened that night than what Herrera admitted to
doing.
Both the victim and her mother said Herrera was a close friend to the
family. Herrera was staying with them in June 2002 following a race when he
gave alcohol to her and then engaged in sexual conduct with her.
Importuning is soliciting another between the ages of 13 to 16 to engage
in sexual conduct.
County prosecutor Kurt Sahoff asked the judge to impose a restriction on
Herrera as part of his sentence, ordering him to inform anyone of his
conviction before staying overnight with the individual. The judge imposed
the sanction.
Sahloff said he wanted Herrera to begin staying overnight at hotels
instead of with families with young girls.
Herrera competes in the World of Outlaws Series, which runs from late
February to early November. Herrera finished 12th in the points standing for
this year, according to the racing circuit's Web site.

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"Mike Marlow" <mmarlowREMOVE@sprintmail.com> wrote in
news:bogmfp$1ep98t$1@ID-100220.news.uni-berlin.de:

> In news:3FABB528.7C5D69D9@psu.edu,
> Barry Posner <bup100@psu.edu> burped and spewed forth the following:
>
>>
>> Do I think that having sex with 14 year-olds is distasteful?
>> Certainly. But it is so commonplace in our own history and around the
>> rest of the world, that I think calling it "sick" is a little
>> extreme.
>>
>> bp
>
> Come on Barry - "sick" is at least in very large part defined by the
> mores of the society in which the acts occur. While our society may
> have allowed for things 100 years ago and while some other societies
> today may even still allow for those things, we don't today. Social
> values change and what was acceptable at one time can very well become
> distasteful at another point in time. Social vaules that are
> acceptable within one culture can equally be distasteful within
> another. I don't see sick as an inappropriate term at all, given the
> social values we live under currently. --
>



I think it's really interesting that physically, adolescents are
maturing much earlier than they did 100 years ago, yet sociologically,
they mature much later than they did a century ago.

On 10 Nov 2003 1533 GMT, "Ms.Goodwrench"
<msgoodwrench29DEL@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>I think it's really interesting that physically, adolescents are
>maturing much earlier than they did 100 years ago, yet sociologically,
>they mature much later than they did a century ago.

I wonder if that is true?


\\/ayne //\ann
http://www.thepoliticaldigest.com/

wayne mann <tpdl@charter.net> wrote in
news:6bnvqv095l7n1htrnal00bc03scqdmb6o3@4ax.com:

> On 10 Nov 2003 1533 GMT, "Ms.Goodwrench"
> <msgoodwrench29DEL@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>I think it's really interesting that physically, adolescents are
>>maturing much earlier than they did 100 years ago, yet sociologically,
>>they mature much later than they did a century ago.
>
> I wonder if that is true?
>



Yep, girls are menstruating at the earliest age on average ever. Last I
read, the medical establishment hasn't been able to figure out exactly
why this is.

"Ms.Goodwrench" wrote:

> Yep, girls are menstruating at the earliest age on average ever. Last I
> read, the medical establishment hasn't been able to figure out exactly
> why this is.

Probably has something to do with better diets and better neo-natal
care. Who knows.

bp

On 11 Nov 2003 13:39:32 GMT, "Ms.Goodwrench"
<msgoodwrench29DEL@hotmail.com> wrote:

>wayne mann <tpdl@charter.net> wrote in
>news:6bnvqv095l7n1htrnal00bc03scqdmb6o3@4ax.com :
>
>> On 10 Nov 2003 1533 GMT, "Ms.Goodwrench"
>> <msgoodwrench29DEL@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I think it's really interesting that physically, adolescents are
>>>maturing much earlier than they did 100 years ago, yet sociologically,
>>>they mature much later than they did a century ago.
>>
>> I wonder if that is true?
>>
>
>
>
>Yep, girls are menstruating at the earliest age on average ever. Last I
>read, the medical establishment hasn't been able to figure out exactly
>why this is.
>
>
My apology, I wasn't referring to that, I was referring to
your claim they are maturing sociologically latter than then. I
question that as a gut feeling, which I cannot back up with a cite.



\\/ayne //\ann
http://www.thepoliticaldigest.com/

wayne mann <tpdl@charter.net> wrote in
newsl32rv86csc27qfcn0ql2fq9uf2o9l5kl0@4ax.com:

> On 11 Nov 2003 13:39:32 GMT, "Ms.Goodwrench"
> <msgoodwrench29DEL@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>wayne mann <tpdl@charter.net> wrote in
>>news:6bnvqv095l7n1htrnal00bc03scqdmb6o3@4ax.co m:
>>
>>> On 10 Nov 2003 1533 GMT, "Ms.Goodwrench"
>>> <msgoodwrench29DEL@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I think it's really interesting that physically, adolescents are
>>>>maturing much earlier than they did 100 years ago, yet
sociologically,
>>>>they mature much later than they did a century ago.
>>>
>>> I wonder if that is true?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Yep, girls are menstruating at the earliest age on average ever. Last
I
>>read, the medical establishment hasn't been able to figure out exactly
>>why this is.
>>
>>
> My apology, I wasn't referring to that, I was referring to
> your claim they are maturing sociologically latter than then. I
> question that as a gut feeling, which I cannot back up with a cite.
>
>


I was too vague - I meant that while adolescents (girls, anyway) are
sexually maturing at a younger age, we've been raising the age of
consent, marriage, etc. in our society. Thought there was a little
irony there.