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A female Richmond High School student was leaving her homecoming dance when she was lured into a nearby alley for an ‘after party.’
It wasn’t a party. For more than two hours, she was raped by at least six young men while a crowd watched. After hearing about the rapes, students were going back and forth from the dance to see for themselves. According to police, there were as many as 20 onlookers.
Words can’t even describe how horrifying this whole incident is. She was 15. More people watched her get raped than the number of birthdays she’s celebrated.
The police were finally notified when a young girl at an off-campus party heard about the rumored rapes and contacted them. The victim was found, unconscious and in critical condition, discarded under a park bench.
How does this happen? What did it take for someone to finally call the police? Is this a twisted example of the bystander effect (remember Kitty Genovese?) or some depraved and disgusting distortion of entertainment?
Violence is so prevalent, on the news and in the media; we’ve become almost numb. It takes truly horrendous crimes, like this one, to wake us back up.
One of every six American women has been a victim of attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. One in every eight Hollywood movies includes a rape scene. Apparently, as sickening as it is, not only does sex sell, but rape does too.
My heart goes out to this young girl who was brutally stripped of her dignity for a group of high school teens' perverse ‘after party.’
Appalling acts of violence have even taken place at my own high school. In 2005, a freshman girl was murdered by another group of girls with a baseball bat and knife. They beat her, while people watched, and then proceeded to run her over with their car. It was during a varsity football game.
Will we ever learn to be humane toward one another?
For more: Read Letter to the parents of teens who gang-raped 15-year-old California girl by Modern Love Examiner, Tinamarie.
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