Skylar Laine’s Ex-Boyfriend Pleads Guilty to Hate Crimes (VIDEO)

By On 01/04/2013 · 146 Comments · In American Idol, Skylar Laine

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Skylar Laine’s ex-boyfriend, Joseph Dominick, plead guilty to a hate crime yesterday (Jan 3) in connection with the 2011 hate crime murder of James Craig Anderson.

The night Anderson was murdered, Dominick and some friends were celebrating his birthday, During the party, they discussed going into town to harass and assault blacks.

The American Idol 11 alum was still dating Dominick at the time of his birthday party. Sources say that it’s very likely she was present that night at the party. Skyler’s mom told a reporter that her daughter had a good relationship with Dominick during the time they dated, but refused to answer further questions.

Dominick was not present when Anderson was killed, but there is evidence that in the months before the murder, armed with a hand gun, he came into the city to “assault and harass African Americans. He even used a sling shot to shoot metal ball bearings at two of his victims.”

Joshua Ledet was one of Skylar’s best friends on the show, so it’s hard to imagine that she’s a racist. Damn, that she’d date one though.

Watch the Channel 12 report below.

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  • Jaejae1

    Thanks for the correction. I acknowledged it in the original post as well. :)

  • http://twitter.com/Stooch101 Stooch

    Well I guess it comes down to whether you believe she knew nothing about his racist beliefs.  All the incidents occurred before she started her idol journey, so she was around him at the time.  She may not have been involved in this horrible situation but she was with him at the time.  This is speculation but because he wasn’t involved in the murder, she might have thought he didn’t have to worry.  But because of the horrible nature of the crime the prosecutors were out to make an example of this group and came back and charged the others with “Hate crime conspiracy” for their past actions.

    So tho answer your question with a question how do know she wasn’t told by someone that she better dump this guy if she ever wants to have a career in music?

  • supersonic

    I always wonder about these little hick towns where people like Skylar,
    P2, and Scotty come from. I just imagine their families hurling the N
    word around and having fits if their child was to date anyone not white.

    Me, too.  I feel the exact same way.

    And unless someone is hiding under a bush they should be aware that one
    of Scotty’s very best friends is black and that his hometown is a suburb
    of a large metropolitan area.

    Then, I must be living under a bush (or just don’t care).  But having one of his very best friends being black or his hometown means nothing to me.  All racists don’t come from the backwoods.  They can come from the suburbs, too.

  • tibitibis

    Wow ! I watched many news about this case in the past and i surprised that only now we learn about Skylar , is true we shouldn’t judge her , but three years into a relationship with a person with this kind of behavior is a little crazy , is true she was a teen by the time she was with this guy so teens had the tendency to see the world in a more romantic way and the ‘bad guys’ often impress young/teen girls ….. but ….idk even her parents; what were they thinking ?. …Ugly News :/

  • durbesque

    Why is any of this dirty business relevant to us?  Is Skylar’s career in jeopardy?  She has no career and never will.  She’s just a girl who was on Idol.

  • blackberryharvest

    I don’t see any signs or indication that Scotty or Phillip are racist. Scotty has never said or done anything that even gives a little sign of being racist. People would argue that its just because he is a white from the south, but that would be generalizing. Besides, his Grandma is 100% Puerto Rican. As for Phillip, his best friend on the show was an Asian(Hee-Jun) and Jimmy Hendrix is one of his idols.

    I don’t think Skylar is a racist either, her dating one doesn’t mean she is. I know a lot of people who are together and have opposing viewpoints.

  • http://twitter.com/Stooch101 Stooch

    I hope this is wrong, if it’s true someone needs to tell this girl to stay away from these people

    http://kingfish1935.blogspot.ca/2012/08/dwf-teen-involved-in-dedmon-case-has.html

  • Abner4President

    The original comment suggested “little hick towns” foster racism. But Scotty doesn’t come from a “little hick town.” Why even wonder about his or his family’s propensity to throw around racial epithets then? What basis is there to this speculation? The “little hick town” = racist stereotype is at least fairly common, but for Scotty it boils down to what? That he’s white and southern? Ridiculous.

    I do hope that the people in this thread speculating as to others’ prejudices based solely on the type of town they come from realize how steeped they are in irony.

  • bridgette12

    She’s all buddy buddy with these lowlifes. 

  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    Sometimes girls will put up with unacceptable behavior because they are insecure and may feel they can’t get any better.  Then again, this racist attitude might be true of several guys she could have dated from that town.  I would like to believe she got out of the situation once sanity stepped in.

    I will be honest, I didn’t like the rifle toting, “I am an outlaw” character set up for Skylar. 

  • tibitibis

    ”People tend to judge others by the company that they keep.”

    Well, difficult not to do it when her company are not only racists , but Criminals that had for hobbies  to go out and brutally beat black people just because they feel they want to do it . :|  ….. makes me sad for her , i like her when AI but i hope her wild personality is not that WILD :(

  • tibitibis

    OH well !! …NVM :/

  • DragonFly

    “The night Anderson was murdered, Dominick and some friends were celebrating his birthday, During the party, they discussed going into town to harass and assault blacks.”

    Can’t think of a more fun & exciting birthday actibity!! & likely not a first adventure.   Wh on blk was the focus in this crime but we don’t lose sight of the fact that “activities” like this take all forms of prejudices (blk on wh,
    wh on blk, within a race, b/c of differences of all kinds–the list is endless sad to say).  Absolute mindless criminal offenses against fellow humans. 

  • chillj

    People need to be careful about labeling by geography.  Boston has a troubled racial history, certainly, but so do many places.  The state has a black governor, and so far California and NY have not, so…  I just read in Smithsonian of a study indicating children as young as three months prefer people of their own race.  I am not surprised by this; in fact, I think most if not all people probably have racial preferences, including many minorities. I have lived in minority communities where residents were quite vocal about their prejudices.  There is a big difference between preferring a particular race and actively discriminating based on it, but there is a spectrum of racism.

    Yes, racism is widespread, but it is an area where we would be wise to look at ourselves instead of indicting people we barely know.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7LS7KC5AHEOV5R27XD7GCWBHFU J

    You hit the nail on the head.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7LS7KC5AHEOV5R27XD7GCWBHFU J

    And I have the facts that no one here knows what she did, said or truly believed.

  • mjsbigblog

     

    The average racist in America don’t like Black people, would never date
    or marry a Black person, but would have a Black friend if the situation
    presents itself.

    Most people I know aren’t friends with people they dislike. That’s actually a contradiction in terms.

    When a racist says “Some of my best friends are….” I just assume they are full of shit–exaggerating what relationships they do have (tolerating co-workers, for instance) to defend themselves.

    From what I understand, Holly, Skylar and Joshua were than just co-finalists, but friends who were inseparable during their Idol run. That’s what I based my comments on.

  • OnIyZuul

     Too bad your definition of what’s racist and the dictionary’s version is entirely different.

  • OnIyZuul

     Too bad your definition of racist is not based on the dictionary’s. Or some semblance of reality.

  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    So to answer your question with a question how do we know she wasn’t told by someone that she better dump this guy if she ever wants to have a career in music?

    I think this is a real possibility and it may have been her Mom or even a sister.  I can’t help but wonder if Dominick was part of the popular kids crowd or the rebels.  It’s quite likely she knew how bad he was and finally got out of the relationship – or he broke up with her.  We can only speculate what all happened.

    At this point in time, I am done with this thread.  Time to move on.

  • ohreli

    Who would have expected Mel Gibson of being such a racist antisemitic jerk until the truth came out…. You never know….

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