Sex, Lies, and Videotapes
The Texas attorney general takes a second look at the Mineola child sex ring cases.
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Saturday, December 17th, 2011, 11:50 am
michelle says:
I would like to know how that Kemp is still a ranger I know of another case that he has been hiding evidence and withholding vauluable information to
Sunday, May 29th, 2011, 12:29 pm
Cindy says:
Everyone here should recognize that a false allegation on any sort could be unleashed on you, your family, your children, your mother, your father..ANYONE, no matter what they do for a living or how wealthy or poor they are who thier friends are..it just does not matter. Our justice system is a multi billion dollar industry...it needs all the cases it can get to make money to pay salaries. The ones who benefit are the ones handing done justice. DA’s and their procecutors are all corrupt,so are judges, lawmen and ALL politicians. Politicians will not pass a law unless the states can make money off of it. if the people like the law then it will be law. I believe that ost people convicted of sex crimes against children are actually innocent. Some are guilty, and those would be the ones where actual physical evidence was collected that proves they are guilty. Most case go by what the child says. And children do lie and parents coerce their children to lie.
Thursday, February 24th, 2011, 4:18 pm
Dianna says:
I believe that this is true, my brother was sentenced to life for a crime that he did not commit either. My brother was tried in Judge Skeen’s court was not allowed to have witnesses and when told that one of the investigators that worked for the DA was married to his ex-wife he was told to shut up and say nothing. My brother has been in prison for 6 years now, he also dated Shauntel Mayo at the time, and will never see a fair trial because everyone wants money and these days our family has very little. I am a single mother of 2 girls who for 6 years has been trying to find someone who would help me free my brother or at least get him a new trial. He has 3 daughters of his own that he is missing out on. These people who sentenced him to life for someone who has never had a felony should see how this feels to them. Having your whole life taken away from you and put in a box to call home for life. All i can do as his big sister is keep fighting and looking someone out there will read this and help me i pray to God everyday that he sends me that one person.
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010, 3:47 pm
MW says:
Anonymous - you’re full of it.
You are familiar with the workings of the DA’s office? You demonstrate not with your rote repetition of whatever hearsay you may have heard spouted by Thad Davidson in this magazine. Why don’t you meander over to the courthouse and actually read the records of the trials and see that the kids have been consistent and essentially unimpeached. Even the 14th Court of Appeals that reversed the Kelly case said their testimony was sufficient to convict Kelly.
Maybe Wood County didn’t prosecute because some of their local officials were reportedly members of the sex club. The DA didn’t bring one single victim, outcry witness, CPS invetsigator involved, or Ranger to testify for the Wood County Grand Jury. Yeah, that was a thorough investigation. It looks like it was rigged from the start.
Saturday, October 31st, 2009, 10:37 pm
linda says:
Well, wow, " WELL wow, WHAT ARE YOU SAYIN’ there was no credible evidence against john, There was no "credible" EVIDENCE, against Patrick either, but that didn’T SEEM TO BOTHER anyone. He was sent to prison for something he DID NOT Do, and instead o flapping your JAWS SO MUCH, WHY DON’T you get your so called PROOF out there instead of all your gossip, I’m sure there are a lot of us who would like to "FINALLY" see some of this so-called PROOF you claim to have What do you say folks?, would’t any of you like to see wow’s PROOF, come on get some of it out there margie, oops I mean wow
Saturday, September 12th, 2009, 8:28 pm
Anonymouse says:
Just read an article in the Tyler paper. The latest 2 defendants in this circus were trying to get their bonds reduced. With Skeen as the judge it was, of course, a waste of time. It is obvious to anyone with any sense at all that this case is garbage yet Bingham and Skeen are trying to put more people in jail for something that apparently didn’t happen. Skeen and Bingham are the worst criminals in Smith County.
Monday, August 31st, 2009, 10:02 pm
WOW says:
Please, you say it is the same photo that was in the magizine when the story was first written and it is concealed, NO it is not her friends could tell it was her, and if you fold the two pages from the magizine you have a "whole" her !
So this is how you jusify she has to live with this? give something to your teen daughter with her as the victim and ask her if its ok she will beg you to remove it I promise.
Monday, August 31st, 2009, 3:43 pm
eileen says:
WOW: This is the same photo that ran in the magazine when the story came out. The girl’s identity is concealed.
Monday, August 31st, 2009, 1:11 am
WOW says:
I really wish you would take the picture of the little victim off thr internet, but since Texas Monthly magizine won’t take it off if this little girl is recognized in one of the porno videos out there, please send it to the Smith County D.A.’s office. If any harm comes from this to her can you live with yourself michael??
Michael Hall Please think ,if the court and children are telling the truth and the A.G’s office finds all to be in place , if they find there was no 7 interviews Then will you say your sorry and take her picture off the internet?
Sunday, August 30th, 2009, 2:04 am
wow says:
no linda the statue was extended, if they could bring the court "any creadable evidence" they could not , not one thing and the Judge said no he would not go to trial, and dismissed it all.
Saturday, August 29th, 2009, 10:56 pm
Linda says:
Well, here goes wow again, spouting off his "big" mouth like he really knew something.John was freed because the statue of limitations had run out, not because there was no crediable evidence against him to take to court, and if you have so much "PROOF" get it out there, I’m sure we would all like to see that"FOR A CHANGE" instead of all the lies that that have been told so far.
Saturday, August 29th, 2009, 1:15 pm
WOW says:
ANYONE CAN POST ANYTHING ON HERE, THERE NEEDS TO BE NO PROOF SLANDER ANYONE YOU WISH DO WHAT YOU WANT TO ASSINATE THEM, JOHN WAS NOT CHARGED WITH RAPE, AFTER BEING PUT THROUGH HELL HE WAS FREE BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CREDIABLE EVIDENCE TO EVEN TAKE IT TO COURT. CHECK COURT RECORDS THIS WAS USED TO SMOKE SCREEN THE FACT THAT, THAT GIRLS HUSBAND WAS IN "FACT" AT THE SWINGERS CLUBS AND THERE IS PROOF OF THIS "HE TOLD" SOMEONE THAT IS WILLING TO TESIFY SO KEEP ALL THIS GOING AND WE WILL KEEP GETTING MORE AND MORE PROOF FROM YOU STUPID PEOPLE.
IF YOU ALL PUT AS MUCH EFFORT INTO THE CHILDREN THAT YOU HAVE BOOGER RED YOU COULD SEE CLEARLY..
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009, 9:17 pm
Dan W says:
This whole case is layered in crap on
top of garbage testimony. The reality is
that
John Cantrell is a baby raping pervert and his wife is distracting attention from this
fact. In Texas life is cheap and justice is
rare.
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009, 1:35 am
Linda says:
Yes, I also think its a shame to have all these innocent Peoples pictures plastered all over the T. V, in the papers and any other place that anyone wants to put it. Even when their innocence is finally proved, this will follow them around for the rest of their lives. So I hope you are all proud of yourselves. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Sunday, August 16th, 2009, 5:14 pm
says:
I find it disturbing that your respected publication would allow the photograph that accompanies this article to be printed - clearly showing a very young child whose identity should be being protected. What can you possibly be thinking?
Sunday, August 9th, 2009, 7:25 pm
Anonymous for fear of retribution says:
Knowing Matt Bingham and the workings of the Smith County DA’s office I would bet that Kemp was told to withhold the evidence by Bingham. It is common practice for the Smith County DA’s office to withhold evidence and sponsor perjured testimony. It has been going on non-stop since at least the Kerry Max Cook case in the late 70’s.
Several things about this case didn’t smell right to me. One of the biggest indications that something was wrong was the fact that most of this supposedly occurred in Wood County but Wood County didn’t prosecute. The officer with Mineola PD who investigated the case for them has a lot of experience investigating these types of cases. If there were something there she would have done something about it.
The fact that this Texas Ranger with no experience or training in interviewing children did the "interrogations" of the children was another big red flag.
The fact is the Smith County DA’s office wanted to prosecute a sensational case that would get Bingham on the news. The truth does not matter to them. Guilt or innocence doesn’t matter. They will lie, cheat and steal to win. The tactics in this case which include withholding evidence and perjured testimony by law enforcement are standard operating procedure for the Smith County DA’s office. It makes one wonder if the self-righteous citizens of Smith County will ever wake up and do anything about it.
Another problem with these cases is the fact that they are being tried in Jack Skeen’s court. Skeen still believes he works for the DA’s office. The chance of anyone getting a fair trial in his courtroom are slim. He was the DA until he was appointed as a judge and unethical, dishonest and illegal tactics were standard practice in his DA’s office. Bingham is Skeen’s protege.
I’m glad these cases are finally getting the attention they deserve. I haven’t checked but I’d be surprised to see anything about the issues raised in the Texas Monthly article in the local Tyler press. The people who run the Tyler paper are buddies of Skeens and will only print things that make the DA’s office look good.
What do think the odds are of this Ranger being prosecuted for perjury? Slim and none in Smith County. The officer who committed perjury in the Kerry Max Cook case was not only never charged or tried but retired from Tyler PD as a captain. In Smith County perjury by law enforcement officers gets them promoted because they are "team players". The AG’s office or someone else needs to step in and prosecute Kemp.
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