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17 year old girl walking home sexually assaulted by multiple, unconnected men

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NoLoveofMine · 13/10/2017 10:15

An absolutely horrendous case in which a 17 year old girl trying to get home on a night out was subject to multiple serious sexual assaults it seems by men completely unconnected to one another. What does this say about society, that different men in a small geographical location within the space of an hour all had such contempt for women and girls they chose to commit these abhorrent attacks on her? It's hideous. I don't usually start threads in this section of the board but I feel so enraged by these attacks and feel more should be aware of this misogyny.

[http://news.met.police.uk/news/appeal-after-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-multiple-suspects-following-night-out-267602]

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AssassinatedBeauty · 14/10/2017 01:43

You're insinuating this 17 year old girl is lying about what happened, based on nothing more than your belief that another woman lied once in the past. It's a totally crass thing to do. What were you trying to achieve?

Zeelove · 14/10/2017 01:44

The story I'm thinking of wasn't the same anyway. I got mixed up with another story.

I don't know why your being so rude. I was just trying to join in with the thread. I didn't read any replys before I posted.

Any way here is the link. Don't want anyone to think I was lying. I genuinely didn't realise what kind of thread it was.

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/woman-been-fined-falsely-claiming-13742362.amp

Zeelove · 14/10/2017 01:45

I wasn't insinuating the 17 year old was lying.... I was just saying a similar thing happened near me and it wasn't true. Means nothing now anyway because I got two different stories mixed up

NoLoveofMine · 14/10/2017 01:46

So Zeelove will you be posting this on every thread about a teenage boy being mugged? lincolnshirereporter.co.uk/2017/09/man-fined-for-wasting-police-time-after-attempted-robbery-which-never-happened/

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AssassinatedBeauty · 14/10/2017 01:47

What kind of thread did you think you were joining in on?

TiesThatBindMe · 14/10/2017 01:47

Zeelove. How is what you linked remotely similar to the story we're discussing?

Zeelove · 14/10/2017 01:48

I'm honestly so confused Confused I was just trying to join in the convo haha. Didn't expect to be jumped on like this. Genuinely didn't mean no harm

NoLoveofMine · 14/10/2017 01:49

Absolutely vile how people jump in to attack and undermine girls who've been assaulted by men. Can you imagine if people did it regarding attacks on boys and men?

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TiesThatBindMe · 14/10/2017 01:50

Zeelove - it's like people are discussing carrots and someone jumps in and shouts 'Apples, I love apples!'.

Zeelove · 14/10/2017 01:51

I wasn't trying to attack anyone who's been abused? I clicked on the thread because I thought it was related to the story I had read. Obviously not.

Slimthistime · 14/10/2017 01:52

" .I was just trying to join in with the thread"

It's not a fucking sandpit, it's a serious conversation about violent assaults on women.

On your logic, next time someone starts a thread saying "my partner hit me" I'd just drift in and say "oh never had that problem, are you sure he dudnt do it accidentally"

Honestly, just go away and engage your brain. It's better that you're dense than a troll I suppose but FFS!

NoLoveofMine · 14/10/2017 01:52

Zeelove you'd not have done it if it was about a crime against a boy or man. Vile.

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TiesThatBindMe · 14/10/2017 01:53

But the story you linked to honey, has absolutely no correlation to what we're discussing? Not even if you only read the bloomin thread title and only that! Weird.

Zeelove · 14/10/2017 01:54

Honestly I didn't mean anything bad by it. I'm tired and got the wrong end of the stick. As a victim of abuse myself I wouldn't come on and openly slate someone who's been abused. I've apologised a number of times yet you still feel the need to be rude.

Slimthistime · 14/10/2017 01:57

Zee " was just trying to join in the convo haha"

Yes ha ha. And you think we're being rude.

You could have asked MN to pull your post immediately.

BitterLittlePoster · 14/10/2017 01:58

I've been working and checking in on this thread all day NoLove, my God it's taken some weird turns. It's really run the gamut, we've had victim blaming, NAMALT, some dancing around racism and some bizarre derails. Oh, and while I've been typing this, some loser posts the old "women make it up" bullshit.

It's sent me on some fantasies with gangs of women roaming the streets. This is actually an ad but it's related and kind of inspiring:
www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/05/29/530244262/watch-women-shame-men-who-pee-in-public

And the late Sir Terry:

“Rough Music...
"No one controls the music, Mr. Pretty - you know that. It just turns up when people have had enough. No one knows where it starts. People look around, and catch on another's eye, and give each other a little nod, and other people see that. Other people catch their eye and so, very slowly, the music starts and somebody picks up a spoon and bangs it on a plate, and then somebody else bangs a jug on the table and boots starts to stamp on the floor, louder and louder. It is the sound of anger, it is the sound of people who have had enough. Do you want to face the music?”

That poor girl, I'm ready to take to the streets with a spoon and a pot and maybe a baseball bat. Especially that guy with the bike. For some reason the dude pushing his bike along the sidewalk really pisses me off. What was his thought process? "I'll just lay this down here for a minute"

NoLoveofMine · 14/10/2017 01:59

BitterLittlePoster Flowers

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Zeelove · 14/10/2017 02:00

I don't think it's that serious to have it pulled immediately. I would have thought after me explaining I was obviously thick enough to get the wrong end of it, people would calm down.

The link I posted and the story I was thinking of were not the same things- as I said I got mixed up when reading the article clearly.

The story I was thinking of was very similar to the thread title. It is 2am... I'm extremely tired but can't sleep. And I posted without reading the thread properly.

I've apologised. I DID NOT MEAN ANYTHiNG BAD

TiesThatBindMe · 14/10/2017 02:01

His thought process was along the lines of 'Man. Need. Sex. Man. See. Girl. Man. Take. Girl'

NoLoveofMine · 14/10/2017 02:02

Anyway more importantly I'm still so sad about the girl attacked. I'm utterly enraged these men will probably never be found.

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TiesThatBindMe · 14/10/2017 02:03

Noloveofmine, they'll do it again.

Slimthistime · 14/10/2017 02:03

Zee, repeating yourself doesn't change anything.

NoLoveofMine · 14/10/2017 02:03

That's my fear TiesThatBindMe.

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Zeelove · 14/10/2017 02:04

Alright Hmm

TiesThatBindMe · 14/10/2017 02:06

I've seen chimpanzees behave better than some of the male of the species homo sapien.