Honestly, I’m not even completely sure how to approach this topic but it’s been on my mind for a solid two (almost) two weeks now. Hopefully, by now everybody knows the story.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
As is par the course for such situations, the police apprehended and proceeded to arrest four of the guilty gentlemen and were attempting to find the fifth. These cats are sexual predators and deserve to be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extend of the law.
Except they didn’t commit a crime. The girl lied. She didn’t want to look like a slore to her boyfriend. And unlike Mystikal, taping the encounter saved their asses. And let’s be real, without it, they’d probably go to jail for a very long time (though apparently several inconsistencies were popping up in her story).
Sexual abuse is a real problem. I believe that if you rape a woman, you should be put under the jail and they should lose the key to your cell. Hell, if you rape anybody for that matter. Forcing that trauma on an unsuspecting undeserving person who typically did nothing more than befriend (most sexual abuse happens at the hands of an acquaintance of the victim) you is cowardly and something that you ought to be sent straight to hell for.
But what happens if you didn’t do it? It’s so easy to accuse somebody of rape and the burden falls on the person to prove that they didn’t rape you. And as jacked up as that sounds to me, it doesn’t make more sense to shift the burden of proof to the victim. They’re already hurt enough, to treat them like it didn’t actually happen doesn’t help further the cause of the thousands of women who are afraid to come forward. But still…what happens when you didn’t actually do it? You have to figure out your next move from jail where you’re placed in a position of presumed guilt. Where public opinion, the state, and police are viewing you as a despicable denizen of society. You are less than dirt. You are a rapist.
The four guys they did apprehend were freed after spending some days in jail. They were happy as hell to get out of jail but really, where’s their retribution? They get to be free, but what of their name. They weren’t convicted of anything but the world knows they ran on train on some random girl. Now that was their decision and they should have to live with that, but it isn’t so far fetched for people to start thinking, “well if they could do that, its possible that they COULD have raped that girl.” Hell, the word “rape” is so powerful that even if not convicted, it wouldn’t surprise me if those boys weren’t forever, even just in their own personal everyday lives, haunted by that word and what it could have meant for them.
I feel like if you falsely accuse somebody of rape, you should be prosecuted just as harshly. You’re toying with somebody’s life. You’re placing them into the category of sexual predators and there’s no coming back from that. But likely, the chick will walk and probably transfer schools because not only is she a liar, she’s also now just a chick who let 5 guys run up in her at once.
And thank god for video tape. It takes a certain kind of perversion to tape yourself and 4 other people gangbanging some chick in a dorm bathroom. But I presume that every so often it just might save you from the big house.
I know a chick who lied about being raped in high school. Luckily she just said amongst our peers (and was later proven a lie) and didn’t go to the police like this chick did. She said it for the same reason as this chick, she cheated on her boyfriend and didn’t want to get in trouble. Just how motherf*cking selfish can you be to be willing to throw somebody else’s life away like that?
Like I said, I really don’t know how to approach this but its been on my mind. I’m glad that those brothers got the ability to get out of jail and hopefully move on with their lives. I just wish it didn’t have to come amidst what is really a huge problem in America, especially on college campuses.
I don’t know. All you people are smart and I’m sure most of you have heard about this case. What are your thoughts?
Do tell.
-VSB P aka THE ARSONIST aka TANGLE JIG P aka GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRL, HE A 3