The Sex-Toy Defense

The murder trial of Mark Patrick O’Donnell in Montgomery County on Friday somehow turned into a sex toy show. O’Donnell is charged with killing his girlfriend’s daughter, 14-year-old Ebony Dorsey; the Daily News writes the prosecution’s case paints O’Donnell as a crackhead sex fiend.

But, whoops, the defense has another theory, and then this happened:

First, Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele walked to the back of the room and asked a group of teenage girls to leave – “It’s probably not a good idea to be in here” - as Santarelli slid on a pair of rubber gloves and got to work.

Judge William J. Furber, who is presiding over the nonjury trial, nodded stoically as the detective displayed a vibrator, purple anal beads, a bottle of “pleasure-enhancing lubricant,” a videotape titled “Big Bad Biker Bitches” and a mysterious sex device with wires coming out of it. “Whatever this device is,” Santarelli said from the witness stand, holding up what appeared to be a black tassel whip.

Ahh, yes, the sex toy defense, where you attempt to… to what, exactly? Oh no, the victim’s mother had sex toys, clearly this defendant is innocent. Innocent, biker bitches!

Mom’s sex toys displayed during man’s murder trial [Daily News]

Shop Selling (Gasp) Sex Toys

NBC 10 also spent a few minutes early in its 6 p.m. newscast last night to cover a “scandalous sex shop” in West Chester. Apparently, there’s a store with lingerie that has sex toys in the back, and people are not happy because it’s near an ice cream shop, a pizza place and a school.

“I think anytime you take something like that — something involving human sexuality and pervert it — that’s wrong,” the Rev. Edward Deliman told NBC 10. The “sexologist” is unbowed, ready and willing to fight for her shop’s right to sell vibrators. Redlasso video after the jump.

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