A Brutal Scene Caught on Tape; Rape
Politics takes a back seat for a few moments and we address crimes of the people instead of our government. So, all you ladies and you protective gentlemen, what's your take on this (as usual) controversial case?
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A Brutal Scene Caught on Tape
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A 21-minute recording of a sexual assault shattered lives in O.C.
By Christopher Goffard
Times Staff Writer
March 9 2006
When Gregory Haidl pressed the "record" button on his Sony hand-held video camera four years ago, lives began to unspool.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tape9mar09,0,2563897.story?coll=la-home-headlines
I say as usual controversial case, because in most acquaintance rape cases, and sometimes in stranger rape, the defense usually claims "consensual sex", makes every effort to destroy the complaintant's reputation and credibility, makes a public point of any real or alleged past sexual history (as if being non-virgin makes a difference in rape), and often lines up several buddies of the defendant to swear they had sex with the girl/woman before.
It is a fact that there are instances wherein women or girls allege rape when it was indeed consensual. It is also a fact that a real rapist often claims consensual when it was in fact forcible or coerced/intimidation rape. Or rape upon an unconscious victim.
In any case, it is a fact that young lives are blighted or totally ruined. In the case of these young men who stand accused, truly guilty of rape or if the young girl did cooperate, I question the standards and morals of the young men involved. Even if the girl was so sexually jaded that she wanted to make a porno flick, no one twisted these young men's arms and forced them to participate in such a degrading and perverted act. We teach young people to say "No" to drugs; we advise our girls to say "No" to illicit sex. Young men have the option to say "No" to wrong doing, also, and they were old enough to know what they were doing was immoral and indecent.
posted by Anonymous @ 3/09/2006 03:46:00 AM
4 Comments:
At Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:26:00 PM ,
JBlue said...
As a friend who sent me info about this at the time of the trial said, after they raped her "using a pool cue, a cigarette and a Snapple bottle," and she lay totally unresponsive, recorded on the tape, it's a little hard to believe she was playing possum. I think the more significant detail is that the defendant's father was very wealthy and very influential. Just more evidence that there's a separate justice system for those with wealth.
At Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:30:00 PM ,
JBlue said...
AND I might add, if that had been my daughter, that little #%^& would wish sometime had shot him before I got MY hands on him. They want to live by a different set of laws? Okay. Be careful what you wish for, though.
(God help me, I'm going to be the mom that goes into the school and beats the crap out of the bully, aren't I? Gets arrested, etc. Oh, well.... You only live once, maybe.)
At Friday, March 10, 2006 4:33:00 PM ,
JBlue said...
Those stories infuriate me. I admire you that you're still sane. I don't know how I would cope, how I would not go on a murderous rampage. I guess you look at your child, who needs you more than ever in that moment (and you looked at child AND grandchild) and you somehow force yourself to do what you have to in order to save that child. But I have a long memory and I can be the snake lying in wait in the tall grass....
I remember when I was pregnant, a friend sent me a card that said something like having a child is having your heart go walking around outside your body. I never knew how vulnerable it would make me. To think of anything happening to my child is so much worse than thinking of it happening to me.
Please tell me that somehow this poor child made it through that nightmare. I hope she's okay. I think victims like her could heal better if they weren't victimized again by the court.
At Saturday, March 11, 2006 11:24:00 AM ,
Granny said...
We went through much the same thing when I was 14. I wrote a post over on granny.
We never got as far as a trial. The DA and the boy's father were buddies. The difference was I became pregnant at 14, baby at 15.
WA's story is much worse and it's still happening.
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