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Murder/rape of elderly woman called "freaky sex game"

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WombOfOnesOwn · 07/12/2015 22:00

www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-aged-91-suffocated-during-6964645

So let me get this straight: a 49 year old man enters his neighbor's apartment, violently violates her and chokes her to death, and the press giggles and calls it a "sex game." This man abandoned a dying or dead woman, and only came forward with his "sex game" story after his DNA was found inside the elderly dead woman.

Now it's being passed around as a funny viral story. Violence against women is trivialized, laughed at, made a "game". The next abusive husband to kill his wife will love to know that this is an excuse now: just stick a dildo in her--when the police find her like that, they'll know she was just some strumpet who wanted it rough and it got "taken a little too far."

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Devora · 07/12/2015 22:36

There was a story last week about a "glamorous Russian MP" who died while having a "sex romp" with her husband in the back of the car. I had to read to the end of the article to find out that it is believed they were estranged, she was seeing someone else, her ex got her into the car where he raped and murdered her.

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WombOfOnesOwn · 07/12/2015 22:15

Thank you; I NCed after people got very angry about my last username!

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VestalVirgin · 07/12/2015 22:10

Disgusting.

They do this all the time.

If you look at how often something is called "sex scandal" when it is actually about rape ... absolutely disgusting.

Also, the ever-popular "family drama" (= man kills (ex-)wife and children) instead of calling it murder.

I wonder what would happen if a newspaper completely refused to trivialize violence against women. It would probably soon be reviled as "man-hating" for writing the truth.

Completely unrelated: Your username is cool. Smile

IShouldBeSoLurky · 07/12/2015 22:09

It's a ghastly story and that report is disgraceful. However, it reminds me of the very similar case in the UK recently where a man was convicted of murdering a neighbour after assaulting her with a shampoo bottle (very disturbing reading in the link) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/29/majella-lynch-man-guilty-murder-perverted-sexual-assault

It may well be that a different story emerges once he stands trial.