Meet Adam Quinn Atwood, a 34-year-old man living in Salt Lake City.
Police arrested Atwood on March 25 and charged him with seven first-degree felony charges of rape, object rape, aggravated kidnapping, forcible sodomy, four counts of second-degree felony forcible sexual assault, and aggravated assault after he attacked a friend of the woman to whom he is married in their home.
The motive? The woman identifies as a lesbian. Now, a judge has released Atwood from jail without bail.
KFOR TV reports that Atwood’s alleged victim–who remains anonymous to protect her privacy–says that she went to visit the couple on the evening of March 25. When she arrived, she discovered Atwood drunk. After spending some time with her friend, the victim agreed to walk to a nearby convenience store to buy beer with Atwood. When the pair returned, her friend had vanished, and Atwood began to get aggressive. He began to touch her inappropriately and ask if she was really lesbian.
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“She told the suspect to stop and no and he asked her if she was sure she didn’t like it and if she was sure she was gay,” a police statement reads.
The woman tried to leave the house, but Atwood began to assault her, grabbing her by the neck and pushing her down a flight of stairs into the basement of the house. According to police documents, Atwood “placed his arm around her neck and choked her, she stated she could kinda breathe and possibly blacked out.”
Atwood then sexually assaulted and raped the woman multiple times, saying “he was going to fix the gay,” according to police records. His wife and children were in the house the entire time.
The woman finally managed to escape Atwood’s attack by grabbing his genitalia. As she ran from the house, he allegedly said “‘you better not tell anyone.”
Atwood has remained in jail since his arrest. A judge initially set his bail at $750,000, though that amount was lowered to $150,000 the following month. Judge Kristine Johnson ordered Atwood’s release on October 19 and waiving his bail. The details of Atwood’s court agreement–including the reason his bail was waived–have not been made public.
Cam
Translation: The Judge graduated from Trinity and probably thinks the woman deserved it for being a lesbian.
TomG
Sounds like the truth to me.
ppp111
Sounds about right. Not surprised. The homophobia and misogyny for the next week or so will be unbelievable.
WashDrySpin
Straight white male privilege does have its advantages
WashDrySpin
Atwood has been behind bars at the Salt Lake County Jail since his arrest. His original bail was set at $750,000 but was lowered in April to $150,000. When his warrant was issued, it was specifically requested that if Atwood was to be released, it was recommended he wear a GPS tracking device, have no contact with the victim, no internet access and no contact with minors under the age of 18
Dijonaise
immediate castration for this magat
Godabed
WTF, the American “justice” system is so damn broken. There are truly no words.
JRamonMc
Sounds to me like “her friend” set her up since she and the kids were in the house the entire time.
TMBisAOK
More like her “friend” was just glad it wasn’t herself for a change and wasn’t about to make the focus back on her.
Mack
I came in to see what state it was and yes it was a red state so there is no surprise there. If it had been a straight Mormon woman his bail would have been a million.
MISTERJETT
…..so he can do it again to someone else.
ShiningSex
so protest the judge and vote him out!!!!
RandomGuy
This piece of thrash and the bigot on the bench that set him free both need to have an entire rock quarry piled on top of them.
ppp111
One more reason not to Utah.
sillyme
Uh you may want to look again and who the Judge is and look closely at the name for if you are able to comprehend the letters there it’s a woman Judge and then look her up and find out what party if you want to know she is voting possibly as.
Cam
She’s a religious woman appointed by a Utah Republican. No mystery.
rbernard
This sure sounds terrible for the victim.
I am not surprised though, this happened in Utah.
That is a Mormon controlled area and their views of human sexuality and justice don’t make sense to people outside of their areas of their influence.
My advice, … move.
someone
Religion of love and forgiveness strikes again.
Gadfeal
Sometimes I would sympathize with an old “eye for an eye” punishment. Put him in jail and see how he manages in general population.
cuteguy
This reminds of the final horrific scene of the movie “Boys Don’t Cry” which was filmed 3 decades ago. No progress smh
Dez
So by his “logic”, if he was raped in jail by a thug with a huge schlong, he would turn gay? Unless he was forcibly raped and learned that that isn’t how it works, there’s no lesson learned (not to mention no justice for the victim) and no reason for this scumbag to be free.