Dennis Skeen
There’s almost always more to the story than what you get in newspaper and TV news….
Take the young woman who passed out Saturday and allegedly was molested by skeezy downtown restaurateur Dennis Skeen.
Buried in the loosely-but-widely reported particulars of the story were the details of what lead up to Skeen being spotted by passersby doing the dirty deed in the Dukes on Grand sports bar around 6 a.m.
More to the point, exactly what went down between 3 a.m. when the woman told police that after a couple beers Skeen fed her two shots and she can’t remember anything else.
“I heard she was a 19 year-old stripper,” says an entertainment source who asked not to be named. “That’s what some of the bar people have been saying.”
Actually, according to police, the woman in question was 23 and an employee of Dukes.
As for her hazy account of the evening, “She’s covering her ass with that story,” says a local bar owner. “That whole story’s just weird. I think she drank a bunch of drinks over a three hour period and did a couple shots and he took advantage of her after she passed out. I guarantee you she had more than one drink and hour – it’s more likely she had one drink every half hour.
There’s more…
Dukes o Broadway:
So many windows, no wonder Skeen got spotted
As in Duke’s employees” drinking and leaving around 5:40 am just before the crime – nearly three hours after the sports bar’s legal closing time.
“The other real crime is they shouldn’t have been in there like that at all,” says the source. “The real story is the owner was breaking the law by allowing employees to stay after closing time and drink – that’s totally illegal.”
Totally against the law, says KC Police.
And equally shocking in that Skeen would try and dead horse one of his employees.
Kansas City Liquor Control could not be reached for comment in time for this column.
Stay tuned.
Sheeeeeit. Every bar would be closed IF THAT were the case. We did that all the time after closing at the bar I worked at. Just a beer or two before we went to Pops in Sauget.
Spent my fair share of time hanging in bars after hours. It’s still illegal.
Either this didn’t happen at ALL as described, the dude was as jacked up as her, to think he could pull that off ANY time of day or night and not be seen, or he’s got an enormous public risk fetish which, well, didn’t play out too well.
As for the girl, 19 year old stripper or 39 year old waitress, she didn’t have that coming, regardless, if she was beyond consent, for any reason.
There are some new theories on how this may have played out.
Think the Plaza bikers may have been involved
but paul…legally she (according to paper) said she didn’t remember
anything after 3am.
A good defense attorney (and iturn this to jr. since he a bannister)…
could get this guy off. Its not against the law to have sex in an
empty bar….and she doesn’t remember anyting….and she was drinking
heavy at her own confession …and they only saw him
during the act…
I wonder if this a$$ can get off? If she can’t recant what happened
before or after the act….howcan she testify that he actually
did rape her…she may have said yes and not known it.
anyway…this date rape thing is pretty out of hand…..
I tunr the floor over to whinery and jr. for a legal opinion.
if I was on the jury (which I have been on rape jury) it would
be hard based on whats in the media and not based on any
more to find the dude guilty.
He may have his “stuff” in her…but what actually happened.
will we ever know.
Good thing you’re not going to be on this jury, Harley…
Because your processing of the few facts that are known is gawd awful.
For example, you say she was drinking heavily “at her own confession.”
Bullshit.
She told police she had a couple of beers, then Skeen gave her two shots. That’s a long way from heavily.
come on admin…two shots of patron or jaeger…
plus 2 beeers which we don’t know the size of those
beers…don’t know her size or weight…and she remembers nothing (according to her account) so
far all there is she could have had 20 beers and
chugged a bottle of tequila.
Did the guy put a gun to her head to do the shots.
Obviously you don’t know the new liquors but some
are pretty strong…a lot more potent than when
you were ‘SATURDAY NIGHT FEVERING” on the
plaza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree, the betting money is she drank far more than two beers and two shots…
However, I disagree with you putting words in her mouth that she drank a ton. That’s not what the police say she said
if you are interested in digging I guess this guy is a bit notorious, and not just because he used to run the Westport hotdog stand like some sort of fat headed Ignatius P. Reilly
Holy shit! Spot on!
Thanks for the ammo, Hearne, to remind my daughter that men are pigs.
And this particular creeper really does look like a pig.