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A Clockwork Orange

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By Matt Coker, Monday, Nov. 9 2009 @ 8:54AM
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Michael Clemmons
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In "Sex, Crimes and Videotape," Clockwork told you about former Santa Ana City College football player Michael Alexander Clemmons, 20, of Tustin, and his former Tustin High School classmate John Paul Foster II, 23, of Seaside in Monterey County, pleading guilty Sept. 24 to charges of raping an intoxicated 18-year-old woman in a Tustin motel and videotaping their crimes.

The other cleat has dropped as a second former player with the Santa Ana Dons--Luster Mitchell Lewis, 21, of Irvine--pleaded guilty in the case, and all three men were sentenced to six years behind bars.

The three men had become friends at Tustin High School before Foster moved to Monterey County and Lewis and Clemmons joined the Dons' roster. But Foster would come down and visit his friends occasionally.
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Luster Lewis
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That's what happened in July 2008 when the trio was partying in a room
 at the Key Inn in Tustin. The 18-year-old woman was "highly intoxicated," according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office, when she was dropped off at the motel by a mutual friend who asked Clemmons, Foster and Lewis to look after her.

To say they failed is an understatement.

While the young woman was, as the DA put it, "unconscious, incapacitated and unable to resist due to intoxication," Foster videotaped the duration of the sexual assault. Lewis removed her clothes and moved her from the bed to the floor so he and Clemmons could repeatedly rape, orally copulate and digitally penetrate her. One of the fine, upstanding gentlemen ejaculated onto her face, and Foster joined in the sexual assault by rubbing his penis against her face while holding the video camera and then, handing the camera to another defendant, Foster pissed on her.

Throughout the rape, the woman never awoke, despite Clemmons and Lewis slapping her in the face, ordering her to wake up and holding her nose closed in an attempt to suffocate her into consciousness. The brutally graphic 21-minute tape the men made was found by someone on Dec. 28, 2008, and turned over to Tustin Police, who eventually showed it to the woman, who had been unaware of the assault due to her intoxication.

During sentencing today, the victim's mother said her daughter had been permanently scarred by the "sadistic" acts, suffering from emotional issues and an inability to trust. When she woke up the morning after the assault, the men refused to drive her home, leaving her to take the bus, her mother said.


The trio pleaded guilty to four felony counts of rape of a person unable to resist due to an intoxicating substance, one felony count of sexual penetration by foreign object of a person unable to resist due to an intoxicating substance, and three felony counts of oral copulation of a person unable to resist due to an intoxicating substance.
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CHS says:

I always tell my students - never put it on film.

Posted On: Monday, Nov. 9 2009 @ 3:00PM
Cesar says:

Hey, how come these motherfuckers got convicted on the first attempt as opposed to Greg Haidl whose first trial was a mistrial? I think having high priced lawyers probably had something to do with it. But let's not forgo the race card as well: it doesn't matter if the victim was lily white, black, brown, yellow, etc., because when a black man is on the stand, all bets are off. Just ask Emmit Till.
So, when do these fucks get their opportunity to use the latest Haidl effort to clear their names? Not likely to happen.
Let's put these pendejos and Haidl's posse (including his dad along with Carona) in a cell and make them penetrate each other with various objects. I have a vintage sickle they can use.

Posted On: Monday, Nov. 9 2009 @ 7:36PM
radium says:

I remember reading this black-on-black crime. Even though she was passed out while the boyz played with her, she knew it when she woke up but never reported their actions. Too traumatized, humiliated and fear of backlash, I suppose. A friend found the tape, showed her, and then the grotesque visuals were turned over to authorities. The young black girl never said a word; how she held it in I can't imagine so thank goodness for that friend.

Posted On: Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 4:45AM

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