Last updated on 01/28/2015
1/27/2015 update: Guilty on all counts, here.
What happened to the coach who brought them to campus? He’s now Penn State’s well-paid head coach, and has “no comment”.
1/24/2015: I’m not much for trigger warnings, but this needs one. From the Nashville Tennessean, here.
A stomach-churning story. And one that made me initially rage at the defense. And yet…
She was drinking. She had sex with the accused the next day. She didn’t want to get a medical exam. She didn’t initially think she’d been raped, and then she didn’t want to believe it was him. Advocates and allies know that these things are actually very common among rape victims. But many people who don’t know better think that’s not how someone who’s been raped would behave. And defense attorneys routinely exploit that to discredit victims.
So now here is a case where all of those things happened, and the defense is throwing it all in her face — and yet there’s damning, horrific, incontrovertible video proof of what really happened. Maybe it’s too much to hope for, but maybe — just maybe — the next time a victim steps forward and similar “facts” are getting tossed around, a few people will find it a little easier to believe her thanks to this case.
Thanks for this thoughtful comment.
And, as a followup: At last the UO gets mentioned in the same breath as Harvard and Notre Dame . . . . but for the wrong reasons. http://www.thewrap.com/sundance-the-hunting-ground-exposes-university-complicity-in-campus-rape/
Funny you should make the Penn State connection. First thing I though of was it looked like your basic Mallard rape scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3WAYlCv02w
of course without the Mallards having access to smart phones.