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March 10, 2011 — -- The alleged gang rape of an 11-year-old girl by at least 18 boys and young men has sparked shame and outrage in a tiny Texas town, but it has also stirred racial tensions that threaten to split the East Texas hamlet.
All of the defendants arrested are African-American and the girl is Hispanic.
The hardscrabble town of Cleveland, which is 45 miles from Houston, has fewer than 8,000 residents and since the saw mill closed the biggest employers are Wal-Mart and a nearby prison. In a town this small, everyone is a neighbor, but that small town ambience is being severely strained.
The rape allegedly occurred last November, and the list of suspects has been growing as arrests keep coming. It's not clear whether more arrests are in the works.
The suspects range in age from 14 to 26, include stars on the high school's basketball team as well as the son of a school board member.
But as the investigation drags on, the shock and indignation has been tinged with an undercurrent of racial tension.
"I feel sorry for the little girl. I feel sorry for everyone involved...the city is in turmoil," Inez Dickerson said.
Dickerson, 68, is the great-grandmother of one of the defendants in the case. Her grandson has not been publicly identified by police because he is a minor.
Dickerson remembers when her great-grandson called to tell her the crime he's accused of committing.
"When I got on the phone, he was crying. He said, 'Granny, I've been accused of something. I'm scared,'" Dickerson said. "He's pretty tore up about it."
"I'm not going to play the race card on this because my grandson and all the rest were very young men and they could have given a second thought on this," Dickerson said.
While Dickerson believes the flaring of racial tensions isn't warranted, others disagree.
Houston community activist Quanell X will host a town hall meeting this evening called "What's the real truth behind the rape allegations?"
"Every adult male that had sex with this child should go to prison, I don't care what the color is. But I do not believe black males are the only ones that had contact with this young child," said Quanell X, the leader of Houston's New Black Panther Party. "It appears to me there's only been the selective prosecution of one community, which is African American."
Quannell X said the rally has been moved from a church to a community center because, "The church received some death threats."
The village has a history of racial violence. In 1988, an African American man was arrested in Cleveland for allegedly stealing a fountain pen. The man, 30-year-old Kenneth Simpson, was allegedly beaten to death by white police officers while in prison. The officers were acquitted of murder charges and returned to work.
In addition, Cleveland is embroiled in a political scandal where three city council members are facing a recall election following complaints of corruption. All three of those city council members are African American.
More than half of the town is white, with the rest of the residents split between blacks and Hispanics.
Most of the defendants have ties to Precinct 20, the nickname for the predominantly African-American neighborhood in Cleveland.
Cleveland police began investigating the rape in December of last year after cell phone video showing the alleged sex attack started circulating among students at Cleveland schools, according to court documents. The video shows the girl engaged in sexual acts with several men.
The girl told authorities that the weekend after Thanksgiving she was asked if she wanted to ride around with three of the defendants in the case. The girl, described as a straight A student by those who know her, rode with the young men to a blue house with white trim, according to court documents.
As the night unfolded, numerous men came to the house and later an abandoned trailer to have sex with the girl, according to court documents.
The video surfaced because some of the girl's attackers used their cell phones to take photographs and to film the assaults.
The girl, who has not been identified because she is a minor and the alleged victim of a sex crime, said that she was told by the men that they "would have some girls 'beat her up' or she would not be taken back to her residence" if she didn't have sex with them, according to court documents.
When a relative of one of the defendants was heard returning to the blue house, the group hurriedly moved to an abandoned trailer. The girl left behind her bra and panties, according to the court documents.
The girl has been removed from the custody of her parents.
Brenda Myers knows the girl and her family. Myers runs the Community and Children's Impact Center in Cleveland, one of the few programs for Cleveland's youth.
The 11-year-old girl and her two sisters frequently attended meetings held by Myers' organization. Myers said the girl was a happy and talkative girl, but something abruptly changed last October.
"This little girl was always hugging and loving and in October, she was really, really quiet," Myers said.
When Myers asked the girl what was bothering her, she said, "It's just something I can't tell you," Myers said.
When Myers heard the news of the alleged crime, she cried.
"I got angry and then...thought where were the parents?" she said.
The girl's mother was recently in the hospital and her father is an unemployed construction worker, Myers said. She said that the family cares deeply about the children.
"The mother was in tears. She feels extremely bad about what happened. She's devastated for her family," Myers said.
"It's becoming a black and white issue because it happened over in the quarters. It's segregating our community again," Myers said. "The reaction is anger, devastation."
Lance Blackwell helps organize weekly prayer sessions for the Cleveland Prayer Center . Recently, an impromptu prayer session included both defendants and family members of the girl.
"It's clear these family members and friends know one another and are in a deep amount of pain," Blackwell said. "The young men that were involved were very emotional...obviously we didn't discuss details, that wasn't what it was about."
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LaNita Harris of the Oklahoma City County Health Department explains two of the posters the department uses in its Teen Pregnancy Prevention program. Although teen pregnancy and birth rates have dropped the past two decades, states still face the reality that black and Latina teens are more than twice as likely as white teens to become pregnant. (AP)
It’s a problem once thought to be intractable, and yet pregnancy and birth rates for black and Latina teens have dropped precipitously in the past two decades—at a much faster clip than that of white teens.
Despite this, black and Latina girls are more than twice as likely as white girls to become pregnant before they leave adolescence.
This glass half-full, half-empty scenario is a dilemma that continues to confound states. The racial and ethnic disparities surrounding teen pregnancy are stubborn, often a cause and consequence of poverty and a complex array of societal factors. Teen pregnancies are usually unplanned and come with a steep price tag, costing U.S. taxpayers up to $28 billion a year , according to the Office of Adolescent Health, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Some states like Mississippi have found innovative ways to tackle the problem by targeting specific populations, while others like Kansas are serving up bills that make it more difficult for teens to access sex education, which is a critical component of preventing pregnancy in adolescence, according to advocates such as the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
To truly solve the problem, these advocates argue, there needs to be a multipronged approach involving funding from the federal government and from the states, as well as intensive community outreach and culturally specific programming.
“You can correctly point to the extraordinary, off-the-charts success in reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing in the African-American and Latina communities,” said Bill Albert, chief program officer for the National Campaign. “But these rates remain far, far higher than among whites. And that needs our full and undivided attention. There’s a role for state and local efforts—and not all of it costs money.”
According to Kate Blackman, a research analyst in the health program at the National Conference of State Legislatures, “states do a lot to raise awareness. We’ve seen some reductions in teen pregnancy—when it’s been a priority.”
Over the past two decades, the teen pregnancy rate, defined as the number of girls per 1,000 girls aged 15-19 who become pregnant, has been steadily decreasing. Progress has been made in all 50 states and among all racial and ethnic groups, according to Albert.
Since 1991, the overall teen birth rate has declined by 57 percent. The most dramatic decreases were among teens of color. Since 1991, teen birth rates among African-American girls declined 67 percent; among Latinas, it declined 60 percent, while among American Indian/Native Alaskans and Asian/Pacific Islanders, it declined 63 percent and 68 percent, respectively. Birth rates among white teens declined 57 percent during that time.
A variety of factors contributed to the decline.
Since the 1990s, there has been an increased use of highly effective, low maintenance birth control methods like the IUD and contraceptive implants, according to Albert.
The Obama administration’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative , which awards $105 million in grants to programs tackling adolescent pregnancy, has been successful in helping reduce birth rates because it funds programs that have been proven to work, Albert said.
Above all, teens are having less sex for a variety of reasons, from the Great Recession to peer pressure to watching cautionary horror stories on reality TV. A 2014 study by economists at the University of Maryland and Wellesley College found that one-third of the drop in the teen birth rate between 2008 and 2011 could be attributed to teens watching shows like MTV’s “16 & Pregnant” and “Teen Mom.”
“We adults always talk about peer pressure as a negative thing, but it can be a force for good,” Albert said. “We know teenagers whose friends are having sex are more likely to have it for themselves. But now, there’s a growing social norm of not getting pregnant while you’re young.”
But when you look at actual rates, they demonstrate a stark reality: Girls of color are much more likely to become pregnant.
Among non-Hispanic white teens, the birth rate in 2013 was 19 births per 1,000, while among black teens, it was 39 births per 1,000. Latina teens have the highest birth rate, at 42 births per 1,000 teens. The birth rate for Native American teens was 31 births per 1,000, while among Asian/Pacific Islander teens, the birth rate was 9 births per 1,000.
Poverty plays a big role in high teen birth rates, as does geography. Rural teens have higher rates of pregnancy than do urban and suburban teens. Southern states, which tend to be poorer and have the highest rates of HIV infections, also report the highest number of teen births. Education and access to contraceptives play a larger role in teen pregnancy rates than do cultural or religious differences, teen advocates suggest.
“When you look at these disparities, it has a lot more to do with a lack of opportunity than with the color of your skin,” Albert said.
Poor teens of color are less likely to have access to quality health care and contraceptive services, and are much more likely to live in neighborhoods where jobs and opportunities for advancement are scarce, according to Gail Wyatt, a clinical psychologist and sex researcher at UCLA.
“We’re talking about income; we’re talking about sub-par education … with no education about sex and your body,” Wyatt said. “This pretty much leaves these girls extremely vulnerable…. It’s simply an incompatible combination of circumstances that these girls are involved and captured in.”
Many teen girls having sex are being exploited by older men, Wyatt said. Many underprivileged girls face peer pressure to have sex early—sometimes egged on by girls who aren’t yet having sex themselves, she said.
Then, too, teen pregnancy is often cyclical, said Lee Warner, associate director for Science in the Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “A lot of the kids having kids are the kids of teen parents themselves. It’s generational.” According to the National Campaign, the daughters of teen mothers are three times as likely to become teen mothers themselves.
Young disadvantaged women need to hear positive reasons about the benefits of avoiding early pregnancy, Albert said. “We haven’t done a good job as a nation about telling young people why we think it’s a good idea to delay pregnancy and parenthood,” he said. “I think sometimes these messages come off as anti-family and anti-baby rather than talking about when and under what circumstances it is good to start a family.”
For the past 15 years, the CDC has spearheaded programming that targets racial and ethnic disparities in teen pregnancy, according to Taleria Fuller, a health scientist in the CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health. The agency focuses on communities where there are high rates of teen pregnancies and birth, particularly among African-American and Latina youth, she said.
The CDC uses a five-pronged approach to address the problem, she said: enlisting community involvement; investing in programs that have been demonstrated to reduce teen pregnancy; increasing youth access to contraceptives and culturally oriented health care services; educating community leaders and parents, and raising awareness in diverse communities about the link between teen pregnancy and other social ills.
The CDC also funds programs tailored to different ethnic groups, like ¡Cuídate! , which means “Take care of yourself!,” and is targeted toward Latino youth for whom Spanish is usually their first language. The program consists of six one-hour classes among small groups of teens and incorporates role-playing, music and video games to educate youth about abstinence and condom use. The program emphasizes Latino values of family and specific gender roles in
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