The NY Daily News is reporting that the Oscar winning songwriter Joseph Brooks is a suspect in a series of sex attacks against young women he convinced to come to his house after finding them on Craigslist. Brooks won an Academy Award for writing the song You Light Up My Life, from the movie which had the same name. He also directed that movie. Despite what he may or may not have done to the women he is suspected of assaulting, he should be put in prison for the rest of his life for subjecting all citizens of the world to that song for the past 40 years.
Brooks, who is 70 is accused of luring women back to his apartment over the course of the past three years, giving them a date rape drug and then assaulting them. The first case happened back in 2006 and there are reports that he did the same thing in 2007 and then again three more times in March of 2008.
Umm, March of 2008 is almost a year ago. I don't understand how come this case is just moving forward now. What the hell has he been doing the past year? Apparently the toxicology reports from the women have been inconclusive, but the idea that this guy may be out there doing this repeatedly and may have been responsible for more attacks than the ones investigators know about kind of freaks me out. It seems to me that if you have a guy who is accused of a spree of sexual assaults that maybe this should be taken more seriously than it appears to have been taken.
That's so weird!
ReplyDeleteI use the "You Light Up My Life" song AS a date rape drug!
Knocks em' out everytime!
Ror, and Debby Boone stil won't forgive you.
ReplyDeleteI thought I heard that the date rate drug disappears after a certain amount of time. (Saw it on a TV show)
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how this stuff works, but maybe they were trying to gather enough evidence to make an arrest or something. The wheels of justice grind exceedingly slow.
ReplyDeleteLook at what Madoff did, and where is he now? Still in the lap of luxury.
Depends on the date rape drug:
ReplyDeleteRohypnol (Roofies) has a half-life of 18-26 hours
GHB has a half-life of 20-30 minutes. And is detectable in urine for up to 12 hours.
(don't worry, I googled, I didn't just know this stuff. :)
If you can afford date rape drugs, you can afford a hooker. Man's an ass and should go to jail if it's true.
Thanks for the info DNf.
ReplyDeletei'm glad you clarified that, DN!
ReplyDeleteseriously, i didn't know that. sexual assault is damn hard to prove, and i remember comments on this very site from women who have been assaulted and didn't want to "put themselves through it" so didn't report it.
no, i don't remember when or who, so i'm not picking on anybody.
sometimes it's hard to come forward.
ITA with your first paragraph, Enty.
ReplyDeleteThis guy didn't want sex; he wanted control. He's a predator and should be in prison. And you know that all they have isn't in the press. It'll come out at trial.
Thanks for the timing info, DN. Interesting.
sorry....DN is wrong...
ReplyDeleteGoogle it some more.
Don't take shit at 'face' value
I do not understand how women who aren't prosties could even think of going to the home of men they don't know.
ReplyDeleteAnd in NYC even....