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Can these guys stop being assholes for just a little bit?
The Fox News Channel may have taken its Fair and Balanced motto a little too far on Thursday when it invited criminal defense attorney Joseph DiBenedetto to make case for why an alleged rape victim was asking to be assaulted.
Following the news that a Missouri county prosecutor had asked for a special prosecutor to review the charge that a 14-year-old girl was raped by an older high school student in 2012, Fox News host Shepard Smith turned to DiBenedetto for a counterpoint.
Theres no denying that from the surface it appears to be some sort of cover-up, the defense attorney said. But when you look at the finer details, there are telltale signs of this girl actually lying. She is leaving her home at 1 a.m. in the morning and nobody forced her to drink. And what happens? She gets caught by her mom, shes embarrassed and the easy way out here is, Mom, someone took advantage of me.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/17/fox-news-guest-blames-missouri-teen-im-not-saying-she-deserved-to-be-raped-but/
trumad
(41,692 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)And those who listen without asking "WTF?"
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Yeah. She was just afraid to fess up to a lil partying....
Unfortunately too many people think just like this dick.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Disgusting. No wonder so many women fear prosecuting their rapists when there are people like this they have to get through.
last1standing
(11,709 posts)Fox viewers want kids to be afraid to sneak out at night. They fear their God, they want a strong leader they can fear, they want lots of guns so that the whole country has to be afraid, and they want lots of bombs so that the whole world has to live in fear.
Think about an entire cult of people who fear their good God more than their bad one.
kydo
(2,679 posts)But see this is what happens when bullies pretend to be journalist. They really should change their name to the "KKK Channel, for the racist and bigot in you." Seriously if it wasn't for luck most of the people both in front and behind the camera at that channel would be either unemployed or part time rent a cop prison guard type or garbage collector (no offense to garbage collectors). They are the full grown version of that bully Ralphie beat up in A Christmas Story.
Sick sick sick people. Doesn't Obamacare cover mental health? Some of those baggies should consider looking into that.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)she was unconscious also
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...the girl had 2 to 4 inch tears in the genital area, according to the medical examination. When they were done with her, the young men left her outside in 22-degree weather, drunk and nearly unconscious. Her mother only found her -- 3 hours later -- because she was SCRATCHING ON THE FRONT DOOR. Her mother thought it was a dog! Thank goodness she went to investigate.
Sure, the girl was stupid to sneak out and drink with those young men. But we all know, kids do things like that. That does not give the young men license to have their way with someone who is dangerously drunk and could not give consent even if she were old enough. And besides taking advantage, it is apparent they were brutal about it. And that is even before they left her outside.
Gad, some days you have to wonder about people.