Glad Jon quickly fired this guy before he brought any negative
problems to Iced Earth. Anybody pick up the latest Iced Earth:
Framing Armageddon? You can get the 2 CD limited edition for under
$15 from www.theendrecords.com

--- In entertherealm2@yahoogroups.com, Robert/Rocknrollcola
<rocknrollcola@...> wrote:
>
> Esteban Parra of The News Journal reports: A
> 32-year-old heavy metal musician on Friday (November
> 16) admitted to abducting a University of Delaware
> student in 2003, shackling her arms and legs then
> hogtying her at his Maryland home until she began
> crying.
>
> Ernie Carletti (mug shot, promotional photo), however,
> testified he did not have a gun and he did not rape
> the woman.
>
> "Maybe I wasn't thinking clearly," Carletti said about
> pulling the woman into his car May 22, 2003, then
> shackling her arms and legs and duct taping her eyes
> shut. "It was just part of the effect. I didn't say
> she wanted it, but she did not deny it."
>
> Carletti, who is charged with rape, kidnapping and
> possession of a deadly weapon during a felony,
> testified in Superior Court in Wilmington, Delaware.
> He was calm throughout his 30-minute testimony.
>
> Carletti — who joined ICED EARTH in June 2006 and
> didn't appear on any of the band's recordings or
> perform with the group before his September 2006
> arrest — said he was driving to his Elkton, Md., home
> through Newark about 1:30 a.m. when he saw the woman
> at the South Chapel Street Burger King. Carletti
> testified the two started talking. When she approached
> the driver side of his car, Carletti said he pulled
> her into the vehicle.
>
> The victim has testified that he had a gun, which he
> denied in court today.
>
> As he drove off, he asked the woman: "Mind if I
> handcuff you?"
>
> "I'm not saying it was courtship, but it is something
> we discussed," he said.
>
> After handcuffing her, Carletti said he shackled her
> legs and put duct tape over her eyes and drove to his
> home.
>
> When asked why he would blindfold her, Carletti said
> it was done for "effect."
>
> Carletti said he then escorted the woman into his
> house and sat her on a couch, where there was a
> "little bit of talking, a little bit of caressing, a
> little bit of kissing."
>
> Prosecutor Donald R. Roberts asked if she kissed him
> back, to which Carletti said he only kissed her on the
> cheek.
>
> After admiring her in that position, Carletti said he
> gagged her mouth, placed her on a table and hogtied
> her. But he said he did not hoist her off the ground
> as she has testified.
>
> He said he released her from this position after 3 to
> 4 minutes because she signified she was uncomfortable.
>
>
> When asked if he thought being hogtied was painful,
> Carletti said he has previously been in that position
> and disagreed it hurt.
>
> "No. Actually it is not painful," he said.
>
>
>
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