If we are to believe Peezus (always a big if), an atheist blogger named Michael Hawkins has been arrested for sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl.
From the linked site:PZ Myers wrote:422
PZ Myers
15 April 2014 at 3:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Gah. Michael Hawkins, in the news. I can’t even feel schadenfreude, because there’s a victim there, and because there’s a chiropractor who will be chortling over it.
Peezus explains who Michael Hawkins is, but doesn't mention that he has a blog:February 28
Kennebec Journal police log
Augusta area police reports for Feb. 28, 2014
Augusta man pleads not guilty to assault
AUGUSTA — An Augusta man was arraigned Friday on an indictment charging him with three counts of gross sexual assault on a girl who was under age 14.
Michael Hawkins, 28, was arrested just before midnight Wednesday and appeared via video link in Augusta District Court on Friday. The Feb. 13 indictment had been sealed until his arrest.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and Judge Beth Dobson set bail at $5,000 cash with a condition banning him from contact with the girl named as the victim in the indictment. Hawkins was represented by attorney Jed Davis.
Hawkins is accused of sexually assaulting the girl on three occasions between July 1 and July 24, 2012, in Augusta.
An indictment is not a determination of guilt, but it indicates that there is enough evidence to proceed with formal charges and a trial.
Assuming that the indicted person is the same as the blogger and not just a namesake, it is in any case clear that he has not yet been convicted for his alleged crime. But in SJ world to be accused means to be guilty. And not only that, the accusation fits a pattern, according to hordeling Giliell.PZ Myers wrote:424
PZ Myers
15 April 2014 at 4:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hawkins is an atheist/skeptic/libertarian sort of guy who was sued by a chiropractor for criticizing his business; Hawkins won. But Hawkins also really hates me, accusing me of not promoting his cause enough (really — I put up a couple of posts about him, but he wanted MORE ATTENTION), and then he got banned from here for being a privileged asshole who wanted to dictate what poor people should be allowed to eat.
Regulars will remember him, not at all fondly.
With commenters like this, who needs a legal system?Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk- wrote:449
Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk-
16 April 2014 at 12:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
So, Michael Hawkins, total Doucheback in one area turns out to be atotal douchebagrapey criminal douchebag in another area.
My heart goes out to the girl.
I definitely see a pattern in “people in the atheo-skeptic community who behave shittily and their likeliness to be sex offendersâ€
I didn't know who Michael Hawkins was. From his blog it would seem that he is no fan of PZ Myers and the SJL. He has not commented about these accusations on his blog, as yet.