Topic: rape

Another Teen Girl Dead Because Her Sexual Attack Was Posted Online: RIP Audrie Pott

 Another Teen Girl Dead Because Her Sexual Attack Was Posted Online: RIP Audrie Pott

I don’t think I’m being alarmist when I ask you all to talk to your teens and your younger relatives today. It’s Friday. All over kids will be telling their parents they are going to a movie, or sneaking out of the house, or lying about spending the night at a friend’s. It’s what teenagers do. It’s what I did. There’s nothing new about this. But now we have another suicide due to the fact a teen girl was sexually assaulted and the boys who did this to her took photographs of the attack and posted them on the internet. More »

Anonymous Says They Are Sitting On All 4 Names Of Rehtaeh Parsons’s Alleged Rapists, Are Waiting For Justice To Show Up

Anonymous Says They Are Sitting On All 4 Names Of Rehtaeh Parsons's Alleged Rapists, Are Waiting For Justice To Show Up

In the days following the death of 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons, who attempted to kill herself after an alleged gang-rape by four boys, there have been numerous petitions asking that her case be reopened. But while the hacktivist group Anonymous has stepped in, so has a Canadian Minister of Justice. Anonymous still isn’t pleased with the way Rehtaeh’s case is going though. More »

Teen Attempts Suicide After Being Gang Raped By 4 Boys Who Also Thought It Would Be ‘Fun’ To Circulate Pictures Of Her Rape

Teen Attempts Suicide After Being Gang Raped By 4 Boys Who Also Thought It Would Be 'Fun' To Circulate Pictures Of Her Rape

About a year and a half ago, 15-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons was gang-raped at a party by four boys, according to her mother Leah Parsons. But to compound her pain, these little monsters also allegedly took pictures of her being raped and circulated them to her entire school. Just for rapey kicks. Somebody definitely failed to meet goal #1 in raising their sons — that being not raising rapists. More »

Rick Ross ‘Apologizes’ For Rape Lyric By Not Apologizing At All

Rick Ross 'Apologizes' For Rape Lyric By Not Apologizing At All

Rape is everywhere and anyone with a conscience is tired of hearing about it. Something has got to give. From a high school party in Steubenville to a bus in India – it has been widely publicized that rape is a scourge on every woman’s existence. So excuse us, Rick Ross, for getting pissed off and “misinterpreting” your lyrics. Only, we haven’t misinterpreted them. Rick Ross brags about rape in his song U.O.E.N.O. Period. And he’s not apologizing for it. More »

Man Convicted Of Murdering 6-Month-Old Pleads For Mercy By Saying He Didn’t Mean To Kill Her — Just Rape Her

Man Convicted Of Murdering 6-Month-Old Pleads For Mercy By Saying He Didn't Mean To Kill Her -- Just Rape Her

Forty-six-year-old Steven Smith of Columbus, Ohio was charged with the murder of his girlfriend’s 6-month-old daughter, Autumn Carter. He has since been given the death penalty and is awaiting a May 1st execution. But in a plea for clemency, Smith’s lawyers maintain that even though he intended to sexually assault the baby, he did not intend to kill her. And it just gets more troubling and legally messier from there. More »

Fifth Grade Boys Arrested For Plot To Rape & Murder Classmate Because She Was ‘Annoying’

Fifth Grade Boys Arrested For Plot To Rape & Murder Classmate Because She Was 'Annoying'

I know some of you readers hate the articles we write where we tell you really awful stories like this. I hate them too, because like a lot of you I have kids in elementary school and it’s stories like these that leave me feeling hopeless and disgusted and utterly frustrated as a parent. Do I have to remind my 10-year-old to never plan to rape and murder girls? Do I have to tell my 8-year-old daughter to be careful of a boy planning to rape and murder her while she is having “quiet reading” time in class? I’m sorry I have to write about a story like this, but I HAVE to write about a story like this because as parents we all need to take proactive measures to stop things like this from happening. More »

Torrington Rape Case Devolves Into Rape Apology, Rape Threats, & General Grossness On Social Media

Torrington Rape Case Devolves Into Rape Apology, Rape Threats, & General Grossness On Social Media

Just as the rulings were being handed out in the Steubenville rape case, another eerily similar story of high school sexual assault was gaining traction. As the world began to move on from a small town in Ohio, we were immediately pulled in to a small town in Connecticut, where two Torrington High School football players were being charged the statutory rape of two 13-year-old girls. (The number of alleged rapists has grown to four high schools boys now.) Now, the social media bullying that became an intricate part of the Steubenville case has reared its ugly head once again. More »

How On Earth Do Wives Defend Their Child Molesting Husbands?

How On Earth Do Wives Defend Their Child Molesting Husbands?

In the course of writing about parenting and motherhood, I come across a lot of stories involving child abuse and molestation. It is a very sad and disturbing part of my job. And while these heinous crimes will never make any sense to me, there’s another aspect of these cases that I am also intensely confused by. How exactly do wives stand up and defend their child molesting husbands? More »

Douchey Egyptian Police General Says Girls Are Capable Of Contributing ’100 Percent’ To Their Own Rapes

Douchey Egyptian Police General Says Girls Are Capable Of Contributing '100 Percent' To Their Own Rapes

While we’re seemingly all about holding pep rallys for adults who fail to report rapes in the United States, over in Cairo, the victim-blame-y script isn’t much different. In fact, it seems that for everyone stateside who talks about women and girls “preventing rape,” there’s some tool on the other side of the world espousing the same nonsense. Like a police general and lawmaker in Cairo who says girls need to somehow scrounge up ALL the responsibility for being violated. Holy Victim Blaming, Batman!

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Media Continues To Fail Rape Victims As The Today Show Gives Airtime To Jerry Sandusky & A Shady Documentarian

Media Continues To Fail Rape Victims As The Today Show Gives Airtime To Jerry Sandusky & A Shady Documentarian

I realize that The Today Show has been going through a ratings slump as of late. I know that Matt Lauer is on a magical image revamp tour and desperate to catch up with Good Morning America. But seriously, giving airtime to a rapist like Jerry Sandusky and a documentarian with some shady history and motives doesn’t seem like the best way to earn back any goodwill. More »