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Fightdirecto -> RE: Muslim thugs (3/23/2013 5:52:52 AM)
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Threats against Steubenville rape victim "not uncommon," say experts
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On the very day the boys who raped her were found guilty, the victim in the notorious Steubenville rape case became the apparent victim of yet another crime: menacing.
Two teen girls were arrested Monday after allegedly posting on Facebook and Twitter threats to hurt or kill the girl at the center of a much-publicized rape case.
To those who work with sexual assault victims, the news was unwelcome, but not surprising.
"That's not uncommon," says Tracy Cox of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Even after a verdict, Cox says that rape victims and their families are often targets of backlash.
Scott Berkowitz, the president of the Rape, Abuse and Incest Nation Network (RAINN), says that in his experience, threats to a victim don't usually rise to the level of physical violence...
CNN Is Awfully Concerned About the Steubenville Rapists
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"The most severe thing with these young men is being labeled as registered sex offenders. That label is now placed on them by Ohio law...That will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Employers, when looking up their background, will see that they're registered sex offenders. When they move into a new neighborhood and somebody goes on the Internet, where these things are posted, neighbors will know that they are registered sex offenders."
Steubenville Rape Trial
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AMY GOODMAN, reporter: In January, we spoke to Monika Johnson Hostler, president of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence. She said the Steubenville case has forced America to take a hard look at its views on rape.
MONIKA JOHNSON HOSTLER: What we are calling for is not just how this is handled in Steubenville, Ohio, but really asking America to take a hard look at ourselves in how we are — handle sexual violence and rape in our country. I think we’ve been able to point our fingers and turn our heads to rapes that have happened in other countries and not held ourselves accountable as Americans to say that we [Americans] absolutely still have a culture of rape, where women and girls are still degraded and dehumanized, and rape is in the fabric of this country. And unfortunately, I would think, centuries later, that we would be further along in terms of our response, but yet we still see Americans blaming victims. So, in terms of our overall response, we’re calling for America to take a hard look at itself and really think about the culture that we’re raising our kids in and the things that we are allowing to happen by not acknowledging, as a community, as a society, the importance of supporting the rape victim.
Richard Mourdock Rape Comment Puts-Romney On Defense
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...even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.
Teaching Men Not to Rape: Survivor Zerlina Maxwell Defies Threats After Speaking Out on Fox News
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Over the past week, political analyst Zerlina Maxwell has received racially fueled death threats for speaking out against rape. Maxwell, who is a rape survivor, appeared on a Fox News segment with Sean Hannity last week about the possibility of arming women to prevent rape. She said the responsibility should lie instead with men. In response to her remarks, Maxwell received a torrent of abuse on social media with commenters saying she deserved to be gang-raped and killed.
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“I hope you get raped and your throat slit! Maybe then you understand why white women need to be armed.”
It seems the United States is only a fraction "better" than the Maldives. But only a fraction better. Let us not feel "holier than thou" and "special" when we talk about other countries.
The Bible, Book of Matthew, Chapter 7, Verse 3:
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Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
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