Oh dear god - Steubenville Ohio footballer rape case

[StuffezLaBouche]

Christ.
My heart leapt when I saw they'd been found guilty.
Ten I saw the sentence.
A fucking YEAR!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21823042
It's like the whole world conspires against victims of rape...

mungotracy there was no jury because the boys were tried as juveniles.

Slug thats cool if thats the case. Not all US states remove juries from juvenille trials unlike in the UK....

Nor does it render moot that no unbiased jury could have been appointed in any case due too social media.

Has anyone linked the Laurie Penny New Statesman article yet?
link

That CNN clip made me very angry,with all this talk of the lasting effect on the rapists,WHAT ABOUT THE LASTING EFFECTS ON THE VICTIM?!!

That Michael Crook bloke is clearly a very dangerous man to women.

It's one thing to say you don't believe that someone was raped.

It's quite another thing to say that rape doesn't actually exist as a concept.

Most rape apologists do acknowledge that it exists and believe themselves to be disapproving of it.

Not this one...

That Laurie Penny article is really good.

There is a petition demanding that CNN apologises. It has over 200,000 signatures www.change.org/petitions/cnn-apologize-for-your-disgusting-coverage-of-the-steubenville-rapists

I found the link through this article sourcefednews.com/cnn-reporter-labeled-rape-apologist-after-steubenville-update/

The petition is not just to demand an apology but also to, ?devote an hour long, prime time segment to rape, it?s victims, what can be done to prevent it, and how to change the culture that gives rise to this violent crime.?

If you want to feel worse about this business, "Two teenage girls were arrested in Ohio on Monday and accused of using social media to threaten the young victim in a high-profile rape trial that concluded this past weekend". What would persuade girls to do this to another girl?

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/steubenville-rape-case-twitter-threats_n_2904463.html

The society they are living in...

This case reminds me of the Listowel case a few years back,where a girl was sexually assaulted by a local man and people lined up to shake his hand in court. She was shunned by local people too.

The blogger who helped the investigation and got threatened, sued, and lost her best friend. Well played to her.

superb article comparing steubenville photos to Abu Ghraib...very thought provoking

I would very much like to hearmaybe it's going to be possible now the trial is overwhat people who defended the perpetrators here have to say about their own role. Like those two girls who are themselves in trouble for threatening the victim, or like the blogger's former best friend. I'd like to hear them give an explanation for their attitude; in a way those people are more interesting than the rapists, because their motivation is so murky. "You've done your best to punish the people who've called for the crime to be punishedwhy? What do you really want to see punished and what should be praised? And the treatment of crime is a public matterdo you want what you've done to be made public?"

Laci Green has made a vlog about the case, very good video (I don't know how to make links active sorry)

is a great take from a young woman blowing myths out of the water.