Stories like this always make me angrier than shit. I'm always amazed at how low society has sunk in this "kinder, gentler" age. The only thing all this feel-good, no spanking, soccer-mom crap has done is raise a bunch of amoral idiots who have no fear of any consequences whatsoever. People today think they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, and if they aren't allowed their complete indulgence they become the victim.
The story I'm referring to is one from Alabama, where the Monroe County District Attorney is considering filing charges against a 14-year-old girl who may have helped arrange the gang-rape of her 14-year-old classmate, by suspects who are 16, 17, and 20. Apparently the sex started as consensual, but when all three suspects joined in, the girl repeatedly said no. The suspects did not stop, leaving the girl needing surgery and 3 days in the ICU. The other girl did have sex, but was not raped. After the incident, the men took the girls back to school, where the injured girl sat in bloody clothes for several hours before school authorities did anything.
I'm going to need a minute here...
...reading stories like this make me want to smash things into little pieces, mostly the heads of those involved.
Let's start with the crime itself. Give the suspects a fair trial; if they're convicted, execute the 20 year-old, and lock the other two up for 25 to life with no parole before 25 years. They're animals, all of them. I've stated my opinions on how rape is viewed in this country before, and I do feel that the laws need to be revised. A 16-year-old boy having consensual sex with his 14-year-old girlfriend isn't rape...it's stupid and misguided, but not rape. It's what teenagers do, and always have done. And I also think that women need to take more responsibility for their actions. Getting drunk and making a bad decision and feeling embarrassed by it in the morning isn't rape, it's a dumb move on the woman's part. Don't put yourself in that situation to begin with.
Now, I am not at all trying to minimize the horror and trauma of rape. Any woman (or man, for that matter) forced to have sex against her will is the victim of an almost unspeakable crime. That crime moves into the unforgivable realm EVERY TIME a child is assaulted by an adult. Which is another reason why I feel the laws need to be revised. A serial rapist, or serial child molester, doesn't deserve treatment or rehabilitation, especially since study after study proves that almost without exception sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated. They deserve, at minimum, life in prison under hard labor; most of them deserve a bullet to the brain and a shallow grave. But too many of the freak-show defenders of the world, like NAMBLA and the ACLU, feel otherwise. There's always an excuse, they say. I say bullshit. People need to wake up and realize there are just some evil motherfuckers in the world who need to be put down, hard and quick.
More on the Alabama story as it develops.
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