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Jun. 26th, 2007 01:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I. Am. HORRIFIED.
Oh, was the 10-year-old wearing a thong? Well, then, yeah, it's TOTALLY fine for those grown men to rape her twice.
What is WRONG with people?!?
Oh, was the 10-year-old wearing a thong? Well, then, yeah, it's TOTALLY fine for those grown men to rape her twice.
What is WRONG with people?!?
OMG!
Date: 2007-06-26 06:23 am (UTC)Re: OMG!
Date: 2007-06-26 04:02 pm (UTC)Re: OMG!
Date: 2007-06-27 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-26 01:18 pm (UTC)I suppose that makes more sense if you're a psychopath.
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Date: 2007-06-26 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-26 05:44 pm (UTC)"Lawyers for the defendants stressed that the sex had been consensual" but there's no comment from the Crown (the prosecution). So, shitty journalism.
Is it still a crime? Yes. Are they serving time for it? Yes. Is it hideously sickening for two men to have sex with a person they thought to be legal age? ... Probably not.
But did they really think she was of legal age? Did she actually look 16? ... Probably not.
If it's any consolation, they'll be marked as sex offenders for the rest of their lives. Their lives, as they knew them, are over.
I hope the kid did give her consent, for her sake. But this article doesn't say one way or the other.
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Date: 2007-06-26 05:59 pm (UTC)I was a very mature-looking child. I know a friend of my sister's thought I was 19 when I was 12. So it can definitely be a fine line. But still - 10? REALLY??
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Date: 2007-06-27 07:49 am (UTC)I really don't know how someone can confuse 10 for 16. Even if they did, given the day and age, why would anyone even take the chance? It's not like ID is a hard item to come by or check.
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Date: 2007-06-26 05:55 pm (UTC)Have you read this one (http://www.slate.com/id/2168758/) about how that Nebraska judge banned the word "rape" from being used during a rape trial?
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Date: 2007-07-13 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-27 06:37 pm (UTC)