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Rape: America's Least Reported Crime
Originally From New America Media
Friday, October 30, 2009 : A rape occurs every two minutes in America. Last Saturday night, a 15-year-old young woman in Richmond, Calif. survived a brutal gang rape that occurred as she was leaving the homecoming dance at her high school.
Reports allege that more than 20 peoplegenders unspecifiedwatched, took photos and even participated in the rape. After being assaulted for more than two hours, the survivor was found abandoned, barely conscious and seminude near a picnic table on her high school campus.
There is no question that the bystanders who watched their peer suffer the most unspeakable violation a woman can survive betrayed their classmate, failed to protect her from harm. But the question that still looms is how we, as a local community and national society, failed to provide them with the assurance that had they reported the crime, justice would be served. Rape is widely perceived as the most underreported crime in America.
Hard facts must be contributed to this discussion, numbers that underscore the fact that most people in our country, regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity, either cant overcome the cultural shame associated with outing oneself as a rape survivor, dont believe that reporting rape is an effective way to combat it, or both. This is undoubtedly at least partially because our legislators and law enforcers have failed to make stopping rape a priority, as these numbers demonstrate. The fact remains that sexual violence pervades American culture, and there are plenty of numbers to prove it:Read More
There is no question that the bystanders who watched their peer suffer the most unspeakable violation a woman can survive betrayed their classmate, failed to protect her from harm. But the question that still looms is how we, as a local community and national society, failed to provide them with the assurance that had they reported the crime, justice would be served. Rape is widely perceived as the most underreported crime in America.
Hard facts must be contributed to this discussion, numbers that underscore the fact that most people in our country, regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity, either cant overcome the cultural shame associated with outing oneself as a rape survivor, dont believe that reporting rape is an effective way to combat it, or both. This is undoubtedly at least partially because our legislators and law enforcers have failed to make stopping rape a priority, as these numbers demonstrate. The fact remains that sexual violence pervades American culture, and there are plenty of numbers to prove it:Read More
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This latest rape case is a typical example of no winners. The losers are:
1. The taxpayers who pay for police, prosecutors, judges, courts and prisons instead of education,worthwhile after school activities that further education (not dances) and social services to eliminate poverty, the major problem in Richmond.
2. The children being tried as adults, a fascist attack on the workingclass to further the careers of the reactionary prosecutors (district attorneys), a position commonly known as "sending poor people to jail." The crying boys who are falsely accused should drive the point home that these are chlidren, although basic biology is sufficient: People under age 18 are children physically and mentally and sending them to prison for life is criminally insane that only Nazi USA would dare to do, because we have no labor movement that demands better education, social services, higher wages and the elimination of prisons (as well as elimination of the death penalty and the military).
3. The female victim whom the school, if they insist on sponsoring these worthless dances, should have required be accompanied by a parent or guardian to AND from the door of the dance hall. The best place for justice for the victim is in the CIVIL COURTS where she can SUE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR MASSIVE NEGLIGENCE IN ALLOWING THIS MENACE ON SCHOOL PREMISES. After all, dances are where people get worked up sexually and teenagers who are not taught to think, common in this backward society, do not know how to control themselves. The school has no business sponsoring any dances either on or off the premises. Of course, the taxpayers will pay for the civil settlement or judgment but that is the least we can do at this point. The schools should be spending our tax dollars on improving the education in the workingclass schools. This writer never attended any school dances, never figured out what anyone was "homecoming" from, and the only after school activity attended was the honor society awards ceremony every quarter with my parents. These dances are an "attractive nuisance" for the people who are not concentrating on being "A" students and the dances should be eliminated immediately, along with abolishing the football team which apparently has something to do with this garbage dance.
This latest rape case is accompanied with endless police brutality stories, oil spills in the Bay, and a bridge that should have been replaced 20 years ago when the earthquake occurred, now being in such a state of disrepair that it has to be shut down at a moment's notice, seriously disrupting the economy, which is already on a downhill run. Meanwhile, the US Congress is busy promoting a healthcare plan that does not serve the needs of the workingclass and the California legislature is busy closing our school system. This asshole of creation called Nazi USA is one stinking cesspool which only a serious labor movement capable of carrying out a general strike can change.
1. The taxpayers who pay for police, prosecutors, judges, courts and prisons instead of education,worthwhile after school activities that further education (not dances) and social services to eliminate poverty, the major problem in Richmond.
2. The children being tried as adults, a fascist attack on the workingclass to further the careers of the reactionary prosecutors (district attorneys), a position commonly known as "sending poor people to jail." The crying boys who are falsely accused should drive the point home that these are chlidren, although basic biology is sufficient: People under age 18 are children physically and mentally and sending them to prison for life is criminally insane that only Nazi USA would dare to do, because we have no labor movement that demands better education, social services, higher wages and the elimination of prisons (as well as elimination of the death penalty and the military).
3. The female victim whom the school, if they insist on sponsoring these worthless dances, should have required be accompanied by a parent or guardian to AND from the door of the dance hall. The best place for justice for the victim is in the CIVIL COURTS where she can SUE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR MASSIVE NEGLIGENCE IN ALLOWING THIS MENACE ON SCHOOL PREMISES. After all, dances are where people get worked up sexually and teenagers who are not taught to think, common in this backward society, do not know how to control themselves. The school has no business sponsoring any dances either on or off the premises. Of course, the taxpayers will pay for the civil settlement or judgment but that is the least we can do at this point. The schools should be spending our tax dollars on improving the education in the workingclass schools. This writer never attended any school dances, never figured out what anyone was "homecoming" from, and the only after school activity attended was the honor society awards ceremony every quarter with my parents. These dances are an "attractive nuisance" for the people who are not concentrating on being "A" students and the dances should be eliminated immediately, along with abolishing the football team which apparently has something to do with this garbage dance.
This latest rape case is accompanied with endless police brutality stories, oil spills in the Bay, and a bridge that should have been replaced 20 years ago when the earthquake occurred, now being in such a state of disrepair that it has to be shut down at a moment's notice, seriously disrupting the economy, which is already on a downhill run. Meanwhile, the US Congress is busy promoting a healthcare plan that does not serve the needs of the workingclass and the California legislature is busy closing our school system. This asshole of creation called Nazi USA is one stinking cesspool which only a serious labor movement capable of carrying out a general strike can change.
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