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more about #sexualassault more comments → Jenna: STABBY STABBY STABBY. more » clevernamehere: After reading around the net, I'm wondering if the priest is actually related to this dude. Apparently, he has known the rapist since he was a teenag... more » Scoithniamh: I read this article once, thinking, where is the possible support coming from? I didn't find it. I read it again, and then another article from a di... more » clevernamehere: Why was this man walking out of the courthouse at all? 7 years with two suspended still means he should be headed to jail for five years. more » bluebears: Oh thanks Priest. You're word as a man that this rapist is respectful of women? Yeah, that's worth its weight in gold. more » SarahMC: No rape culture though right? Please send the victim an email of support (andBegorrah posted below)! more » Katxyz: Astonishing. This wasn't even a date-rape or marital rape or he said, she said rape situation. She was found lying on the ground half conscious in a... more » NellMood: I'm hating the world right now because I heard a group of teenagers joking about rape on the subway an hour ago, and now there's this. I don't get thi... more » Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini: God, that makes me sick to my stomach. I think I'd feel the same even if I wasn't a rape victim. more » sayah: So the creep gets to skip the last 2 years of his sentence and it's him that people are comforting?! I wish I could reach out to the strong victim an... more » andBegorrah: You can send a quick email of support to the victim via the Kerry Rape Crisis Centre at krcc@eircom.net. more » Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: If he thinks a 12-year-old girl didn't fight hard enough, imagine how he'd treat a full-grown woman. more » yeahisaidit: She was walking in a school stairwell alone? First, she was a victim of her own awful judgment. Second, she may have been a very mature 12, and as we... more » paloma loves a wild rumpus: ughhh. my cousins went to this school, and I remember them telling me stories about how awful it was...that poor girl. Junior high is awful enough w... more » grumpelstiltskin: Really? They're trying to write it off as consensual sex? If these people are trying to sweep a rape under the rug, I feel like they're the same peopl... more » -
#rapeculture
Irish Rapist Has Fan Club
About 50 people gathered to shake hands with a convicted rapist at an Irish courthouse yesterday. His victim says she's been "judged" for speaking out, but, "I am not sorry for it. All I did was tell the truth." [IT] -
#campusinsecurity
Seventh-Grader Assaulted At School — Officials Blame "Hormones"
Last Thursday, at a middle school near Richmond High School (site of October's brutal gang rape) a 12 year old pupil was allegedly raped in a stairwell during school hours. But school officials are already disputing the account. More » -
#raperape
Sexual Assault On Campus: Schools Don't Always Offer Much Assistance
Being raped or sexually assaulted should not happen at institutions of higher learning. Unfortunately, many young women learn that their colleges and universities are unequipped to prevent sexual violence - and reporting the action could prompt a wall of silence.
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#justicefornone
KBR Arbitration Awards Another Assault Victim
Former military construction contractor Tracy Barker was raped in Iraq in 2005 while on the job. Barker went through arbitration and won a settlement, but her former employer, Kellogg Brown & Root, is still trying to screw her over. More » -
#surprisingstatistics
Rapists Admit Repeated Crimes — As Long As You Don't Call It "Rape"
According to a new study of college students, men will admit to rape as long as you don't call it that — and the same few men are offending multiple times without getting caught. More » -
#antisocialmedia
Facebook Allows "Pro-Rape, Anti-Consent" Group To Stay On The Site For Months
A group of students, both past and present, of the all-male St. Paul's College at Sydney University, decided to create a pro-rape Facebook page called "Define Statutory" that reportedly was allowed to stay up on the site for several months. More » -
#numbercrunching
Rape Statistics: Don't Believe Everything You Read
Two oft-cited Department of Justice reports understate the number of rapes among people with disabilities and — because of faulty data-collection techniques — all women. The second report may underestimate the number of rapes committedin 2008 by 818,000. [Feministing] -
#truecrime
"Violence Is Always The Wrong Choice:" Richmond Rape Survivor Speaks Out
At a rally at Richmond High School yesterday, a pastor read a statement from the victim of last weekend's horrific gang rape — she acknowledged her community's anger, but cautioned against letting violence beget more violence. More » -
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#lawandhorror
Convicted Rapist Arrested After Police Find Bodies In His Home
Police in Cleveland, Ohio, have arrested convicted rapist Anthony Sowell after a suspected six decomposing bodies were found at his home. Sowell previously spent 15 years in prison after being convicted of rape in 1989. [MSNBC] -
#leftovers
Five Arrested In Homecoming Assault; Sarah Palin Slams Levi, CBS
• Five men have been arrested in the gang rape and robbery of a 15-year-old teen outside her school's homecoming. Police say they now think 10 people took part in the assault as 20 watched and, possibly, took pictures. • More » -
#truecrime
Bay Area Homecoming Dance Becomes Scene Of Brutal Crime
Brace yourself for the most stomach-turning story in a long time: on Friday, a 15-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped after a homecoming dance in a suburb of San Francisco, while as many as 15 teenage boys stood around, doing nothing. More » -
#madwomen
Mad Men: Sex, Lies, & The Recline Of The Roman Empire
Last night's episode of Mad Men, "Souvenir," was a meditation on memory, duplicity, role-playing, and the male gaze. More » -
#reports
"No Place For Us Here": How To Solve Issues Of Sexual Violence In "Safe" Zones?
Today, Amnesty International released its report "No Place For Us Here: Violence Against Refugee Women in Eastern Chad" (PDF), which describes in painful detail the sexual violence that women escaping from Darfur face both outside and inside United Nations camps.
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#raperape
Sharon Tate's Sister: "It Was A Consensual Matter"
Debra Tate, sister of Roman Polanski's murdered wife, Sharon, went full-tilt Whoopi on the Today show this morning, arguing for the director's release. "It was rape, but it wasn't rape," she told Matt Lauer. Also, have you heard Polanski's brilliant? More » -
#rapeculture
Lessons From Hofstra: Why Rape And False Accusations Are Part Of The Same Problem
Hofstra freshman Danmell Ndonye may face charges for falsely accusing five men of gang-raping her. A reader asked us for "a non-ideological take" on "the false yet pervasive attitude that women wouldn't lie about such things." Here goes: More » -
#nameandshame
"Crapist" Is A Bit Clunky
Georgetown University recently told students to quit calling a man who sneaks into women's beds "The Cuddler," because his crimes, which include "placing his penis on a victim's thigh," are anything but cuddly. So, what's a better nickname? [The Sexist] -
#crimesandmisdemeanors
Vow Of Silence: How Do Hundreds Of Rapes Just "Come To Light?"
As many as 300 women have been raped in an isolated Mennonite community. How did this happen? More » -
#seasonofchange
What If Keeping Women Safe Meant Educating Men?
In an editorial in The American Prospect, Jaclyn Friedman decries colleges' "ineffective pageantry on rape prevention." Instead of teaching female students how to avoid getting raped, she says we should be teaching men how to avoid being rapists. More » -
#leftovers
Samantha Orobator Challenges Conviction • Group Will Sue Over Forced Removal Of Head Scarf
• Lawyers for Samantha Orobator, the pregnant woman jailed in Laos for drug smuggling, say the U.K. shouldn't recognize her conviction because she was subjected to a "disgraceful show trial," denied access to lawyers, and prevented from defending herself. • More »
