Can’t wait to see him go up against Beverly—not only does she come off as very believable, but she publicly forgave him.

To insinuate that Beverly Johnson needs to use his name for publicity is fucking gross. Not nearly as fucking gross as what he has done to DOZENS of women, but gross none the less.

She’s from the old school method of consent. The belief is that a little consent (drinking alcohol in the presence of a man, wearing too little clothing, going into the territory of a man alone) is the same thing as consenting to EVERYTHING.

That day will never come. Narcissistic sociopaths like him go their whole lives without that realization. If he were capable of having a revelatory moment of wrongdoing, he wouldn’t have done the things he did. I have known people like this. There’s something broken in their brains and the collateral damage is HUGE,…

The thing is, he knows he wrong. So does she. They both just don’t care at this point. They have reconciled that “it is what it is” and have vowed to fight all allegations until the end. I used to give Camille a pass because she sounds like a victim of emotional abuse. But...reading that she was his business manager,…

I don’t normally approve of juveniles being tried as adults, nor do I condone vigilante violence. But after reading this I find it really, really difficult to hold to those beliefs.

Oh they also raped her, beat her, and murdered her. They were all tried for rape and murder as well as kidnapping, robbery, and assault. Her adult attackers got the death penalty while the one who was underage got three years because he was a juvenile.

How the fuck is that classified as rape and not murder?

Why assume any of this makes me feel “good” about myself?

I remember reading this and wondering how a rape could be so brutal that the best doctors in the world couldn’t save her life. Then I found out that they had sodomised her with metal bars and pulled out her intestines and I think I lost all faith in humanity.

Yes, I am.

And her name was Jyoti Singh, since she was not named in the article. Remember her name.

You are correct. Authorities described him as the “most brutal.”

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

This is what people need to know.

Oh.Christ almighty....imagine the horror she went through.

What’s really troubling with this in particular, is that I remember reading that he was the most brutal of the attackers - if of course one can even begin to quantify that horrific murder. So clearly this is a young man who is most likely far beyond saving and releasing him will endanger the society around him. He…

“And that’s a goal you can actually attain! How great is that? A goal you have in life is actually attainable! All you have to do is you just keep playing with your buddies and your friends and you actually attain your goals! In Odessa, you can do that!”

Thanks for your thoughts and memories, SCfMA. You’re a great writer. I love this. I, too, was in West Texas for a few years in the 1980s, and the two revelations were the greatness of the high school football and the awfulness of the dust storms. Outside of fall Fridays, life there was a mix of a Steinbeck novel and…

It was also used, particularly in England, to name the illegitimate children of the royals. Since he is clearly a bastard, it's ver appropriate.