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The Mormon sex in chains case was a sex scandal involving a Mormon missionary in England during 1977.
Contents
1 Incident
2 Judicial proceedings
3 Coverage in the media
4 Later developments
5 References
5.1 Reference bibliography
[edit] Incident
A young Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson went missing in 1977, in Ewell, Surrey, after he was allegedly abducted from the steps of a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[1] A few days later a freed Anderson made a report to the police that he had been abducted, driven to Devon, and imprisoned against his will, chained to a bed in a cottage, where he alleged that Joyce Bernann McKinney (b. August 1949), a former Miss Wyoming World[2][3][4] had abducted, attempted to seduce, and then raped him.[5][6] The case became known by many sobriquets, including "The Mormon sex in chains case" and "The Case of the Manacled Mormon."
[edit] Judicial proceedings
McKinney was arrested on September 19 1977 and charged but vigorously denied the charges. While being taken to Epsom for a court appearance, she held a notice up at the window of the police vehicle saying, "Kirk left with me willingly!"[7] Press reports and McKinney's lawyer refer to the substantial size differential between McKinney, described as slightly built, and Anderson, described as substantially larger.[8][9]
Along with Keith May, her alleged co-conspirator, McKinney jumped bail and fled the country.[10] On 18 July 1979, they were both arrested in the United States by the FBI on charges of making false statements in order to obtain passports.[11] They both received suspended sentences.[12]
No extradition proceedings were instituted by Britain, and the English court sentenced McKinney in her absence to a year in jail.[13] Under the then-Sexual Offences Act 1956, due to the victim's gender, there was no crime of rape committed, though Indecent Assault on a man applied.[14]
[edit] Coverage in the media
The coverage in British newspapers in the final months of 1977 was extensive and highly prominent.[1] Many newspapers sought to obtain "scoops" on the story, and also to undermine other newspapers when they managed to obtain and publish exclusive information. One example of this was the Daily Mirror, which researched McKinney's past and reported finding that she had been a nude model. It ran an exclusive story stating this for several days. The Daily Mail attempted to devalue the Mirror's reports by advertising itself as "The paper without Joyce McKinney."[15]
Brian Whitaker observes that the case provided "light relief" for the newspaper reading public, from more serious stories about politicians.[15] Roger Wilkes states that the coverage of the case "cheered Britain up no end."[16] A Church of Scotland working party on obscenity in 1979 observed the "gusto" with which newspapers covered and followed the case, noting the accompaniment of the coverage by "the kind of illustration which a decade ago would have been under plain sealed cover."[17]
The coverage was extensive in part because the case was considered so anomalous, involving as it did the issue of rape of a man by a woman. Backhouse and Cohen reported in 1978 that many men, privately, expressed their disbelief of such a possibility.[18]
The case was documented in a book by Anthony Delano in 1978, based on assembled Daily Mirror coverage,[19] entitled Joyce McKinney and the Manacled Mormon.[20]
[edit] Later developments
In 1984 McKinney was again the subject of police action for allegedly stalking Anderson at his workplace, though he was now married with children.[13][21]
In 2008 "Bernann McKinney" appeared in the media after having her pet dog cloned in Korea. Journalists have attempted to tie the two incidents together in articles either noting or declaring some facial similarity between "Bernann McKinney" and Joyce Bernann McKinney. Some reports considered the two to be the same person,[10] and some reports carried Bernann McKinney's denial that she is the 1977 convicted sex offender.[2][8][22] The International Herald Tribune (and other publications) carried an admission by McKinney that she is the person named in the 1977 case.[9] The revival of interest in the story led the documentary filmmaker Errol Morris to produce his film, Tabloid (2010), based on the media sensation surrounding the story.[23]
Anderson is now a real estate agent, and shies away from publicity. McKinney is reported to now use a wheelchair for mobility, and lives in Newland, in the western North Carolina mountains.[8][21] Keith May died in 2004.[24]
[edit] References
^ a b Fernandes 1999, pp. 489
^ a b Bone & Kennedy 2008
^ "Corrections". St. Petersburg Times: pp. A.1. 2008-08-13.
^ "Setting it straight". The Sacramento Bee: pp. A2. 2008-08-13.
^ "Joyce McKinney". Mahalo.com. http://www.mahalo.com/Joyce_McKinney. Retrieved 2009-02-22. "I love him so much that I would ski naked down Mount Everest with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to."
^ Delano 1978[page needed]
^ Barret, Frank. "Joyce McKinney". Jamd. http://www.jamd.com/image/g/2635254. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
^ a b c Gordon 2008
^ a b AP 2008
^ a b Batty 2008
^ "Beauty queen back in FBI's custody". St. Petersburg Times. Associated Press: pp. 4. 1979-07-20.
^ Brunton 2008
^ a b O'Neill 2008
^ "Sexual Offences Act 1956 (c.69), section Intercourse by force, intimidation, etc". Office of Public Sector Information. http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1956/cukpga_19560069_en_2. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
^ a b Whitaker 1981, pp. 39, 55
^ Wilkes 2002, pp. 286
^ CoSWP 1979, pp. 29
^ Backhouse & Cohen 1978, pp. 163
^ Woestendiek 2010
^ Fillion 1996, pp. 331
^ a b Dobner 2008
^ Peterkin 2008
^ Scandal and Subjective Reality in Errol Morris's Tabloid Village Voice 13 July 2011
^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2025500/Joyce-McKinney-Madam-Mayhem-loves-Mormon-missionary-kidnapped.html
[edit] Reference bibliography
Backhouse, Constance; Cohen, Leah (1978). The Secret Oppression: Sexual Harassment of Working Women. Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 0770517897.
Church of Scotland Working Party on Obscenity and Community Standards, Church of Scotland Social Responsibility Committee (1979). Obscenity and Community Standards. St Andrew Press.
Delano, Anthony (1978-06-16). Joyce McKinney and the Manacled Mormon. Mirror Books. ISBN 978-0859391405.
Fernandes, Fatima (1999). "Sex scandals". In Peter Childs and Mike Storry. Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415147262.
Fillion, Kate (1996). Lip Service: The Truth about Women's Darker Side in Love, Sex, and Friendship. HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 0060172908.
Whitaker, Brian (1981). News Limited. Minority Press Group. ISBN 0906890047.
Wilkes, Roger (2002). Scandal: A Scurrilous History of Gossip. Atlantic. ISBN 1903809630.
Woestendiek, John (2010). Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend. New York: Avery Penguin. ISBN 9781583333914. http://books.google.com/books?id=DktfYvZW42MC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
"Despite scandal, South Korean cloning firm says it has no plans to screen clients". International Herald Tribune. Associated Press. 2008-09-11. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/11/asia/clone.php. Retrieved 2009-02-23. "On Saturday, McKinney repeated the same argument her lawyer made all those years ago: There is no way she could have overpowered the young Mormon, because he was much bigger and stronger, at what she said was 300 pounds, or 136 kilograms."
Bone, James; Kennedy (2008-08-08). "Missing years in Bernann McKinney's strange journey from Mormon sex case to clones called Booger". The Sunday Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4481742.ece. Retrieved 2009-02-22. "In 1977, the former Miss Wyoming stalked her lover, a Mormon missionary, to a tabernacle in East Ewell, Surrey, allegedly kidnapped him and held him in a cottage in Devon. There, the 17-stone Kirk Anderson claimed, his petite, busty admirer tied him to a bed using mink-trimmed handcuffs, slipped into a see-through nightie and forced him into sex"
Batty, David (2008-08-08). "Joyce McKinney: from Mormon manacling to dog cloning". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/aug/08/joycemckinneyfrommormonman. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
Brunton, Michael (2008-08-11). "Cloner Dogged by Sex Scandal". Time magazine (Time Inc.). http://time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1830818,00.html.
Dobner, Jennifer (2008-08-09). "Bernann McKinney, Joyce McKinney: Cloned puppies and a mormon sex slave? > Is the woman who cloned her puppies the same one who held a Mormon missionary hostage 31 years ago?". Chicago Tribune. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/aug/09/entertainment/chi-sns-joyce-mckinney-cloned-dogs-hostage-ht. Retrieved 2009-02-24. "Joyce McKinney surfaced again in Utah in May 1984 and was arrested for allegedly stalking the workplace of the same Mormon man she was accused of imprisoning in England. News reports say that police found a length of rope and handcuffs in the trunk of McKinney¡¯s car, along with notebooks detailing the man¡¯s daily activities."
Gordon, George (2008-08-07). "A cloned dog, a Mormon in mink-lined handcuffs and a tantalising mystery". Mail Online. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1042506/A-cloned-dog-Mormon-mink-lined-handcuffs-tantalising-mystery.html. Retrieved 2009-02-22. "In 1978, Joyce McKinney jumped bail and disappeared after being charged with kidnapping a 17-stone male Mormon missionary, whom she had chained to a Devon cottage bed with mink handcuffs and forced to have sex."
O'Neill, Dan (2008-01-29). "A Mormon, a beauty queen and manacles...". South Wales Echo. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/columnists/2008/01/29/a-mormon-a-beauty-queen-and-manacles-91466-20404168/. Retrieved 2009-02-23. "Joyce, remanded on bail, came out after 11 weeks in Holloway in time to sign a deal with Penthouse Magazine, then disappeared with the faithful Keith, fleeing to Canada, sentenced in her absence to a year in jail"
Peterkin, Tom (2008-08-07). "Dog-cloner denies being Joyce McKinney of the 'Morman sex-slave' case". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/2517483/Dog-cloner-denies-being-Joyce-McKinney-of-the-Morman-sex-slave-case.html. Retrieved 2009-02-22. "The animal-lover, who has been thrust into the limelight after her pet dog was cloned by Korean scientists, has vehemently denied that she is a former beauty queen accused of a bizarre and salacious sex scandal that fascinated the world 30-years-ago."
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