ACWORTH, Georgia - "Promiscuous." That's the word that repeatedly comes up when Brett Swayne's third grade classmates at Gus Grissom Elementary School are asked to describe him. Swayne, 8, is one of three boys accused of raping an 11-year-old girl last week in this normally sleepy town.The boys are accused of forcing the girl into a litter-strewn wooded area behind the housing complex where they lived. She said she was threatened with a rock, and that one of the boys raped her, according to Acworth Police Chief Mike Wilkie. Chief Wilkie confirmed that the investigation has targeted young Swayne as the ringleader of the rapists.
"Brett is a real player, there's no other way to describe him," said Amber Grey, 8, who sits directly in front of Brett in reading class. "Actually, I guess there are other ways to describe him: lady killer, philanderer, playboy, man-whore . . . ." Grey said that tales of Master Swayne's manhood are legendary in the third grade. "It's supposed to be the biggest in the class, and that's saying a lot."
Brett told a reporter he "welcomes" the rape charge as an opportunity to enhance his reputation at school, despite the fact that he is too young either to ejaculate or to sustain an erection. Brett asked this reporter not to "get into the fact that it would be physically impossible" for him to have committed rape.
The girl who accused the boys has no other evidence to support her claim, but Chief Wilkie explained that the boys are being charged because females are biologically incapable of lying about rape. The girl's mother admitted that the girl is "a chronic liar" about every other subject, but "the minute she said she was raped, of course I believed her." So powerful is the female urge to speak the truth about all things concerning rape that while police were questioning the girl about the incident, the girl's mother asked police to sprinkle the interrogation with a few questions about other matters, including, "Did you steal $50 from your mother?" And, "Did you cheat on your math test?" The mother said she hoped the truth would "rub off" on these other areas.
The girl's name is being withheld by police, but the girl's mother, Crystal Gail Mangum, achieved fame last year as the stripper who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape.
