Bryan Drew working the ‘helpless Haven’ angle
WAYNE CO.—The afternoon testimony in the ongoing bench trial of former Fairfield PE teacher/coach Haven Kirkpatrick, charged with eight counts of sex assault of a female student, focused on quite a few points, but the theme seemed to be that the teacher was a ‘victim’ of an obsessed student.
The state put on witness after witness who put Kirkpatrick together with her alleged victim repeatedly…but every bit as often, defense attorney Bryan Drew would slam home the prospect that Kirkpatrick, who drank to excess (according to testimony) and at times enjoyed a toke on a joint (also according to testimony), would get in such a condition that her tiny alleged victim would “pin her to the wall and kiss her and try to take advantage of her.”
Witnesses Hillary McKitrick, Kelsey Brendall, Shelby Parrent, Kenzey Brooke Stanley, Makenna Webb and the victim’s mother took the stand this afternoon, telling of how they’d either observed Kirkpatrick and her alleged victim together, or confronted Kirkpatrick about it, in the case of the mother of the young girl, who was 17 at the time the incidents were said to have occurred.
Haven and Holly Kirkpatrick, Haven's mom.
Brendall testified about pot use and drinking, at which time she was giggling and appeared to, in Drew’s estimation, not take the questioning seriously. When Drew railed about it to her, Brendall honestly stated, “I don’t understand your argument.”
However, Drew made the argument clear when, following Parrent’s and Webb’s testimony that they’d seen Kirkpatrick and the victim together at a church parking lot on Burnt Prairie Blacktop (south Wayne County), he attempted to show the judge that the very tiny victim (who might stand five-foot-six but top out at 110 pounds soaking wet) was “taking advantage of” Haven Kirkpatrick (a stout woman, as can be seen in her photos) by physically “pinning” her to walls or other objects and performing acts of affection, and advancing into the realm of sexual, on her, all because Kirkpatrick liked to drink vodka and beer and enjoy the occasional joint while she was at it.
The victim’s mother also took the stand this afternoon and testified about how she’d found references to lesbian behavior in her daughter’s journal, and ongoing mentions of Kirkpatrick. The mother said that the girl had told her she might be gay, and Kirkpatrick was “counseling” her about it at school. The mother told Kirkpatrick NOT to ‘counsel’ her daughter, it would be dealt with at the family level….yet Kirkpatrick’s number continued to show up on the girl’s phone.
Regarding phone usage, a Verizon representative testified early in the afternoon that while his company couldn’t extract exact messages from the phones, they were able to determine that over the course of May 25 to June 19, 2010, there were 1,620 texts coming in to the victim’s phone, and 1,617 outgoing. On Kirkpatrick’s phone, by contrast, they found a total of 3,975 texts and 3,975 in the same time frame. To this, Drew objected, stating there was no way to know what these texts were, or whether there were ANY texts at all between the two. His objection was overruled and the testimony was entered, but whether it will help or hurt Kirkpatrick’s case remains to be seen.
At this point, it doesn’t seem like the state has a very strong case. There is argument about the level of sexual contact, if in fact any occurred at all, between the two. Drew contends the girl made it all up; however, her journal and the ongoing testimony of the people who saw the two together, while circumstantial, is rather incriminating. The testimony will continue in the morning; be checking back frequently, as this is a bench trial (before Edwards County Judge David Frankland) and those tend to move more quickly than jury trials.
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Posted by Jack Howser
on Oct 13 2011. Filed under Breaking.
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Whoever did the hiring at that school sure let the people down. A hard-drinking, weed-smoking, lesbian was allowed to be in a supervisory position over young, impressionable girls? That is like hiring John Dillinger or Jessie James as a bank guard.
I am inclined to 100%the agree with that remark…hope I can remember that and use it in another instance!
Dennis,
Your statement is very true and I agree 100% with you. I believe you and I are both a little late showing up to the progressive world dance. This is just a benefit (rolling my eyes) of decades of leveling the field based on an a court agreeing with the minority….. Ex. the number of court cases in favor of some jackass that is offended by a cross, prayer or the 10 commandments being presented on your tax paid property, and the offended always seems to live more than 4 hours away from what offends them. These are the same ilk of dipshits that needed to be paid millions of dollars because coffee is hot and is real hot when they take the lid off while driving and is spills on their crotch.
There is light at the end of the tunnel though, there’s a good chance one day Bullwinkle will settle down with a nice fellow lesbian and an adoption agency will give them a child, probably a son ….. because love sees only caring…. BULL SH_T …. would anyone like to buy a vowel
Speaking of which….did anyone see that load of bullpuckey the Southern was shoveling about a week ago, about the two gay guys who wanted to foster/adopt a child, and one was given to them, then the system came and took it away, and they were all broken hearted? I would say if they want to pursue such a thing, more power to em, but they need to go north of Springfield, otherwise this is going to happen, as even the ‘progressive’ downstate agencies don’t want to give babies to same-sex couples.
…stands to reason that children should never be given to same sex parents…never happens in nature now does it?…ps TL…I’d like to buy an “I”…
This kind of behavior comes from a state that allows civil unions and to think the defendant (Haven K) still buddies up with Charlotte Neff and they walked into court together yesterday all buddy buddy. Charlotte is a former student of Havens at FCHS and now a little more than just a student. I believe the GUILTY Verdict was the only way to see this, being as I heard and saw all the evidence. Problem is I also feel like there is more charges that should be brought against Haven. I doubt that will happen as the other girls are to ashamed to admit openly about being either Lesbian or at the very least Bi-Sexual. I believe we had one witness who had a sexual relationship with Haven but denied it under oath, but thats hearsay and speculation in court. It appears to me that nearly every female that hung out with Haven K after school hours had some sort of physical attraction/contact with each other. This other stuff will probably never be proven but it will definately always appear that way both on and off of court record. What a shame this ever happened to any of the girls she came in contact with as she has groomed more than one, and pounced on her opportunity to have a sexual, drug and alcohol induced “goodtime”! I sure hope Bryan Drew objects to that but he knows its true as well as anyone else that was sitting in on the hearing!
Dennis and others let me please regrettably support for my initial rant about Bullwinkle and her future partner having a child. Jack and Ang I apologize for the link but the enlightened, progressive, bull shit has just got to stop. If they can paint conservative americans with a broad brush then they must feel it’s ok for them to be painted with one. Just the thought of this should make it a crime for same sex to be allowed to have kids. OK, progressives bring the hate and try to defend your herd…. again Jack and Ang sorry for referencing Fox’s link BUT
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/17/controversial-therapy-for-young-transgender-patients-raises-questions/
T L, thanks for the link, it is eye-opening but I would bet that 99.95% of the people in this region haven’t the foggiest clue that such crap goes on nor would they believe it if you told them about this in a coffee shop. It simply sounds too preposperous.
Can you imagine telling people about this 40 or 50 years ago and saying this would happen in the future? They would come closer to believing that Earth would be colonized by little green men before thinking such crap as that could happen.
What is next, beastiality, legalized pedophilia, necrophilia? With the Liberals, nothing surprises me.
I dont know much about what happened 40-50 years ago but I can say this much. I sure hope she doesn’t get probation as one area attorney has so claimed he believed she would get. I said if she does then this family has wasted their time going to trial. But with things in this world as they are nothing would surprise me, it would just madden me.