In a sane world, the rape victim is allowed to tell the world the names of the rapists! After all, if the rapists need to be held accountable to the public.
Unfortunately, this is NOT a world of sanity!
This month, in Kentucky, two rapists will get leniency, yet their victim is facing jail time for mentioning their names.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120720/NEWS01/307200106/?nclick_check=1
Frustrated by what she felt was a lenient plea bargain for two teens who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her and circulating pictures of the incident, a Louisville 17-year-old lashed out on Twitter.
“There you go, lock me up,” Savannah Dietrich tweeted, as she named the boys who she said sexually assaulted her. “I’m not protecting anyone that made my life a living Hell.”
Now, Dietrich is facing a potential jail sentence, as the attorneys for the boys have asked a Jefferson District Court judge to hold her in contempt because they say that in naming her attackers, she violated the confidentiality of a juvenile hearing and the court’s order not to speak of it.
This confidentiality stuff is supposed to protect innocent people, not those who are guilty, (and in this case, the boys already pled guilty)
In my industry (the education industry) , I'm not supposed to tell the public which students have a learning disabiltiy or a health problem. That is done to protect innocent kids from harm. This is where confidentiality is supposed to be applied.
But those 2 boys have raped a girl. Not only that, they have spread photos of what they have done! They were basically bragging to their social networks what they have done!
But now those 2 boys want privacy? Hell NO!
Those 2 boys ought to be embarrassed and humiliated! After all, that's what they already did to that girl!
Those 2 boys ought to be held as an example of how not to act! That's why they deserved to have their names public. As one online commenter said
THE BOYS SHOULD BE MARCHED DOWN MAIN STREET HOLDING A PLACARD ADMITTING WHAT THEY DID.
Too much leniency for the predator is not only a middle finger to the victim ( after all leniency for rapists = telling their victims "you dont matter much"), it is also bad for the predators themselves! After all, remember how the troublemakers in your school acted when they got a lenient consequence? It only encouraged them to cause more trouble! They're like "aah, the authorities are nothing, I'll just do it some more!"
In other words, too help the troube-makers in the long-run, give them a consequence that matters! Give them harsh, humiliating punishment! That way, they'll start thinking "it wasn't worth, it's time for me to grow up already" That mindset WILL ONLY come after feeling the pain from a negative consequence!
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Some will say that naming names will humiliate those falsely accused of crimes.
That doesn't apply in this case. Those 2 boys already plead guilty!
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Also, some online commentators are getting on the victim's case (instead of getting on the rapist's case) because she was drinking alcohol and "she should have known".
Well, she already learned her lesson the hard way, so there's no reason to pile the hate on her!
But more importantly, being an imperfect, naive young person DOES NOT MEAN it's OK to rape her!
We only have a limited amount of outrage within us before we experience "outrage fatigue".
Save the anger towards the rapists! Save the anger at those who hurt instead of help someone who was in a vulnerable position!
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Some online commentators are saying "she should've just followed judge's orders, the law is the law"
SCREW THAT!
The USA is a great nation because many DEFIED STUPID LAWS!
Remember the Boston Tea Party? Remember the Declaration of Independence? Remember the "underground railroad"? Remember Susan B Anthony? Remember Rosa Parks? Remember Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement?
And outside the USA ...... Remember Jesus Christ? Remember Gandhi? Remember Nelson Mandela?
Because all those people defied STUPID UNJUST LAWS, the world is a better place!
Of course we should have laws, especially laws against rape, which was what those 2 boys did!
But stupid laws that limit freedoms, encourages discrimination, and discourage those who speak out against injustice......... those laws should NEVER exists and should be countered with Civil Disobedience!
So thank you Savanah Dietrich for doing some civil disobedience!
As for the 2 boys who raped, as soon as I find out their names, I'm posting it on this blog! They should have seen it coming!
