Rrrrrrrr.

[changeyourstars8]

As if the story about Brooke Bennett wasn't sickening enough, we have idiot writers pulling this shit:

The 14-year-old said she herself had been having sex with Jacques since she was 9, as part of the sex ring.

How goddamned hard is it to write "The 14-year-old said Jacques had been raping her since she was 9"?

We've got assholes who need to be shot in the head assaulting little girls and kidnapping them so that other assholes can have a crack at them, too, and altering their MySpaces so that mysterious 'internet strangers' can be blamed and people in the media who should know better enabling them because oh, an adult male is 'having sex' with a nine-year-old! Rape? Nah, of course not! We all know that doesn't exist. It's always a case of the slut asking for it, or the bitch lying, or the little Lolita tempting the poor guy! How was he supposed to help himself? Boys will be boys, after all!

I swear to god I am going to end up beating these jackasses to death with a copy of the dictionary.


ETA: Oh look! The latest headline! "Death penalty possible in Vermont sex-kidnap". KILL.

Comments

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Very awkward-sounding. :-)

To the best of my knowledge, a minor can't consent to sex and it's automatically statutory rape (which is where you get all the "but I thought she was 18" things when the guy's brought into court).

This probably wouldn't have made me so mad if it weren't for repeated instances in news articles of 'had sex with' in place of 'was raped by' when there wasn't even the possible defense of quoting the victim. In which case, I really think they should've used a direct quote from the girl.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I think a direct quote from the girl, if she actually said that she's been "having sex" with the guy, would have been disturbing and powerful rather than awkward and enraging.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

*nods*

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

You know, lately, it seems like my Onion iGoogle feed knows exactly what I've been talking about recently (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/raped_environment_led_polluters_on).