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In reply to the discussion: Steubenville looks to be another Penn State. [View all]Tsiyu
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and post video and pics of yourself committing the crime, you LOSE the presumption of innocence.
The trial is for the details. They already PROVED their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Secondly, how could this drugged girl ( have you SEEN the pics from Saltzman's phone where they drag the girl like she's already dead around? She wasn't exactly able to identify anyone ) even know who had raped her? How do we know she even sent the text?
Or does that not enter your mind at all here?
I just know this, as a female, I am sick to death of girls and women being treated like nothing, like they don't matter. This girl matters to me. Her pain matters to me. The horror she went through matters to me. Others might dismiss it as a "so what?" I can't do that.
I know about that horror because her attackers showed us who they are. THEY did that. I didn't have to assume anything.
And I know that this young woman needs support, because the defense is going to attack her unmercifully. As if her gang rape weren't already enough. They are going to call this 15-year-old child a slut, a whore, say she was asking for it, find people to lie about her, attack her parents, her grades, her clothes, her friends. This is why rape goes unreported, and why she and her family backed down when the fucked up sick perverted prosecutor cajoled and betrayed this young woman to protect her precious little rapist son.
In a just world, this would never happen. Second best would be for her attackers and their enablers to stand up and take their punishment. They and their town refused to do the right thing, so they got exposed.
Thank you, thank you, thank you Anonymous, for treating this girl's life as important, for caring so much about a human being others treated like trash.
Thank you, and to the girl herself, I am sorry they will see nothing better to do than attack you. You are 15. You should not have to be dealing with this crap because THE RAPE CREW and the SHERIFF in that town and the COACHES in that school and the PROSECUTOR who let her home be used as a place of your torture made really bad choices. Because they used you like you weren't even another person. I am so sorry.
Jane Doe, I hope you can stay strong as they continue to rape you for their own benefit.
You matter. You are not at fault. You DID NOT DESERVE THIS.