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A predator walks: Letting child rapist off without prison time is an outrage in every way

In a travesty gross enough to make a blind statue cry, a juvenile justice counselor who sexually assaulted youngsters he was supposed to protect will be spared a minute of prison time.

Tony Simmons pleaded to having intercourse with a 15-year-old and oral sex with a 16-year-old, and to forcibly molesting another 15-year-old. Grotesquely, the assaults took place in the Manhattan Family Court building.

Simmons' plea bargain calls for him to accept a sentence of 10 years' probation and sex offender treatment. That the Manhattan district attorney's office and Acting Supreme Court Justice Cassandra Mullen agreed to it beggars the imagination.

DA Cy Vance called the sentence "outrageously lenient," yet his assistant made no fuss when the arrangement was placed on the record.

The judge is said to have harbored doubts about whether the DA was confident as to the strength of the case against Simmons.

Just as disturbing, Simmons would have faced no more than four years on any of the charges had he been convicted. The youth and vulnerability of his victims and his abuse of the juvenile justice system would have counted for nothing.

Question: Can this devil of a deal be undone?

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Teen gets 12-month sentence for minor offense - and thug gets probation for raping her

Michael Daly


15-year-old Ashley had no inkling of what was to come on the day in 2005 when she was in Manhattan Family Court on a minor charge.

"You want to believe everybody's good, everybody wants to help you," she told me last week.

A hulking juvenile counselor named Tony Simmons led her in handcuffs from the girls holding area to the elevator.

She expected Tyson, as Simmons was called, to bring her up to the courtroom where she was scheduled to be sentenced for filing a false police report.

Instead, the elevator descended to the basement. The 42-year-old counselor pulled down her pants and raped her with calm, practiced precision that made him all the more terrifying.

"He knew exactly what he was doing," Ashley said. "Everything."

When he was done, Simmons pulled her pants back up and the elevator ascended to the courtroom. He raised an extended index finger to his lips in a mute command for her to say nothing.

"I was very scared," Ashley said. "I was terrified. He was a very large man."

Just moments after being violated, Ashley was seated next to her mother and before the judge. She was too shocked and terrified to report the attack.

"I knew I was just raped. I knew it wasn't supposed to happen," she recalled. "I didn't think anybody would believe me."

She kept silent as she was found to be a juvenile delinquent and sentenced to 12 months. She says her only crime was initially reporting to police she did not know who had jumped and cut her on the way to school.

Simmons continued to prey on teenagers in his custody until 2008, when a 15-year-old girl came forward to say he had sodomized her behind a locker in the girls holding area, which he stocked with condoms and cookies. Investigators believe the assaults go back a decade to the rape of a 13-year-old in the holding area.

"Just the tip of the iceberg," Assistant District Attorney Amir Vonsover said in 2008, when Simmons was indicted for three sex assaults.

On Sept. 27, Simmons appeared in court and pleaded guilty to raping Ashley and sexually assaulting two other teens.

He received probation.

"I got 12 months for a falsified police report and he got probation for raping me and the others," Ashley said on Friday. "It's just ridiculous."

Ashley says she was not told about the probation deal when she called Vonsover last week to check on the case. She had prepped to testify in the upcoming trial, but she was now told that Simmons had pleaded guilty.

"[Vonsover] said, 'You should be so happy,'" Ashley recalled. "I'm thinking, 'Great. He's definitely going to jail.'"

When she went online later, Ashley saw a news report that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance had blasted Judge Cassandra Mullen as "outrageously lenient" for giving Simmons probation.

In defense of the judge, the Office of Court Administration noted that the transcript of the plea shows that Vonsover offered no objection. He was insisting he had objected during an off-the-record sidebar. Court sources say Vonsover offered Simmons his cell phone to call relatives before taking the plea.

Ashley and her family feel the judge still bears some responsibility no matter what the prosecutor did or did not say. Ashley's mother-in-law asked, "I'm a nurse. If a doctor gives a wrong prescription, do I give it or do I question it?"

Ashley recalled what the investigators told her in 2008, after they contacted her and she finally recounted the rape.

"They said, 'Great! We have a definite case. He is going down, 100%.'"

She also remembered how she felt when she had to identify Simmons in a lineup.

"I lost my breath, to be honest," she said. "I stood there for about four or five minutes. I couldn't speak. I actually felt like my heart was going to stop in my chest."

While pondering Simmons' probation for the courthouse rape the day she got 12 months, Ashley notes that she actually served nearly three years.

She is not of the streets and that made her the target of kids who were. And, as the shock of the rape turned to anger, she often talked back to counselors.

"You say something, they throw you on the floor; 60 days, 90 days, 120 days added to your sentence," she said.

She was already an orphan and she had lost her adoptive parents as well by the time she was released. She nevertheless kept on track, getting a perfect score on her GED exam and enrolling in a professional program at a prestigious university.

"It's awesome! It's beautiful!" said Ashley, now 20.

True love helped her overcome trust issues that began with that walk to the elevator five years ago. She is married and has a son she named after Vonsover before she could even imagine Simmons getting probation.

She does not want her full name in the paper, lest Simmons try to track her down. She is not worried about her photo.

"I'm only scared of one man, and he already knows what I look like," she said.

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blakk 15 year old gurl woo lied to police dat shi neva kno woo jumped ann cut ar gitt raped bye wan court afficer ann de rapist woo admitted raping addar teenagers git probation.

guess dem doan beeleeve blakk oomen can gitt raped

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How yuh tink 1 million black peeps in jail in yankee land?....dem judge deh get kickbacks fi sen peeps to jail yuh know is a money making business

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: yaadie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How yuh tink 1 million black peeps in jail in yankee land?....dem judge deh get kickbacks fi sen peeps to jail yuh know is a money making business </div></div>

da gurl dat got rape wass blakk ann mii wanderinn de race aff de rapist. even iff da rapist blakk, oww dem aggoo let a serial rapist dat tree yung gurl fingar fe gitt probation ann no jail thyme. oyinbo judge gave de blakk gurl 1 year fe mino affense butt de oyinbo ooman judge gave de rapist probation ann no jail thyme. diss nuh rite. wey awl dem oyinbo feminist group. iss itt cah de gurl wass blakk dat y dem oyinbo gave a serial rapist no jail thyme fe raping ann handcuff blakk gurl inn da courthouse elevator

mii find itt intarestinn dat dem poas da pitcha aff de gurl butt onlee ann artist drawing aff de rapist






































sah de man wukk fe da court ann tekk wan 15 year ole handcuff blakk gurl dunn to da basement, pull down ar pant ann rape ar. den imm took ar bakk upp to da courtrooms, seat ar nexx to ar maddar ann de judge sentenced da traumatized gurl to a year inn jail. later dem found out dat imm rape addar gurls ann dem allow imm fe plea bargain ann gitt probation. dem shood ave lock upp de rapist butt dem didd natt

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If ever there was a travesty of justice

an she not even have a brother or cousin that can go and castrate the bastard

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jazz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If ever there was a travesty of justice

an she not even have a brother or cousin that can go and castrate the bastard </div></div>

yu meen peeps fe defend da community standards

imm rape two adder underage gurl dat came forward ann gave testimony. plus dem suspect imm aff doinn de itt to addar yung gurls


still mii wanderinn iff itt cah dem yung gurls were inn custody y deer iss natt more outrage. itt like dem farreen oomen inn custodee wey waitinn fe gitt dipped wey gitt sexuallee abused ann no out rage

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can she file a civil suit fi attach to him past, present and future earnings?

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kia</div><div class="ubbcode-body">can she file a civil suit fi attach to him past, present and future earnings? </div></div>

natt sure. ar best civil suit wood bee against de guv cah shi wass rape inn courthouse by an court employee

tink pon diss.

young blakk gurl gitt jumped ann cut. shi lied to da police dat shi neva knoo woo attack ar so dem charge. shi went to court ann gitt canvicted. dem wen shi go bakk to court fe sentencinn shi git rape. den wen ar rapist go to court imm gitt probation no prison thyme. ann now fe be able fe gitt civil justice shi affii go bakk to court.