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| Lewis M. Laury |
A Baltimore teacher was arrested Monday and charged with rape after detectives discovered that a 12-year-old girl who’d gone missing last month had been staying with him.
The suspect, 24-year-old Lewis M. Laury, is charged with second-degree rape and a third-degree sex offense. He was ordered to remain held at the Baltimore County Detention Center without bond during a bail review hearing Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore County District Court.
The charges against the Baltimore City Public School System teacher come after police used a flood of notices asking the public to help locate the missing girl, who left a note at her Baltimore County home, discovered by her parents on June 21, stating that she was meeting with a friend in Pennsylvania.
The girl’s mother, who said she knew that her daughter didn’t have any friends in Pennsylvania, became “alarmed” and immediately called Baltimore County Police, a county prosecutor said during Tuesday’s hearing. The girl had been gone since the prior day, Assistant State’s Attorney John Macgee said.
After analyzing a phone belonging to a friend of the girl’s, police found that she had contacted Laury, according to charging papers. Authorities located the girl in Laury’s apartment, which detectives wrote in charging papers is in the same Pikesville-area complex as the girl’s. Laury wasn’t there, and the girl was taken for an evaluation at a hospital, where she told detectives that she and Laury had had sex multiple times, charging papers say.
The girl had met Laury on a playground in their neighborhood and told him that she was 22 years old, Macgee said. The prosecutor also said Laury had spoken with detectives and initially stated he “didn’t remember” whether they’d had sex, as he had been “drinking and smoking weed,” though he acknowledged he had spent time with the girl.
Seriously, you thought a 12 year old was 22? Lewis M Laury, Jr. (Mr. L) Accomplishing the Unthinkable. Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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I've done it. One of my female friend's daughter came into the bar where we were drinking one afternoon, one that I had not met before. I just assumed that my friend had all three of her kids with 2 or so years of each other, and since the one that I did know was 34, i didn't think this one could have been younger than 27. After her daughter left, I turned to my friend and asked her for her kids phone number because I'd really like to ask her daughter out. She turned to me with a look of incredulous anger and said "hell no, she's 13." I was stunned because that 13yo was a 110lb, 5'2", D-cup brunette. It the occured to me that the 13yo was an oopsie baby since her oldest sister was almost 20 years older than her. I apologised to my friend.
ReplyDeleteTen years later at her wake, I told that story to the now 23yo, and she sighed and said she'd had that problem since she had a C-cup bra when she was 9...