This Week in the Mercury
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
SEX / Crime Today in Traditional Marriage
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:29 PM
A 32-year-old man from Twin Falls, Idaho, has been charged with solicitation of rape and burglary after posting an advertisement on Craigslist seeking a man to enter his home and rape his wife, according to a Twin Falls County Court affidavit. The husband admitted to having sent e-mails to Michael Combs asking that he rape his wife, according to the arrest warrant. The ad was posted in the "Casual Encounters" section of the website and was headlined simply, "Want to help me," Twin Falls Police Officer Justin Dimond said in the warrant. Combs told police that he responded to the person who posted the ad, who said his wife "wanted to be forcibly raped as that was a fantasy of hers" and urged him "not to stop no matter how much she resisted," according to the arrest warrant. Police responded Saturday to a distress call from the house; when they arrived, they found the woman holding Combs at gunpoint and arrested him, according to the warrant.
It turns out that this wasn't the first time a man broke into this couple's house and attempted to rape the wife while her husband was away. And CNN "isn't identifying the couple" out of concern for the wife's safety, according to a note at the bottom of the story. The dumbfuck who responded to the husband's Craigslist ad—Michael Combs—is identified in the story.
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