Hera owned the camera that was used to record the rape. They asked her to look for the video. She couldn’t find it. Here is the kicker, they let the boyfriend take the camera with him where he was able to find the video. They think he had a memory card with the recording on it and he switched it out. She was than…

Cavender noted that Lara said, “At the point where he had sex with me, yeah at that point I was a willing participant because I wanted to get it over with.” But Lara wouldn’t “admit” that she had wanted to sleep with Joaquin, which made the detectives upset. They told her that Joaquin didn’t deserve this, she says.

I think we all need a palate cleanser after that one ...

Because they think women are evil bitches who lie about rape to fuck with fine, upstanding men. That's all there is to it.

I find this absolutely incomprehensible. Having read the article I still have no real idea of why they found Lara’s story “suspicious”, only that this Det. Cavander guy had a hunch and then over-interpreted some relatively minor inconsistencies. Sadly, it’s not like this is an unusual story; a similar thing happened…

Those cops should be charged as accessories before the fact.

They got promoted, they ruined her life and killed a baby and got promoted!

*deletes several incoherent, expletive-riddled, violence-inciting attempts at commenting on this*

Holy shit. I’ve been watching old seasons of The Amazing Race recently and just a few days ago I finished watching the season where Hera McLeod competed with her father Gus. And she seemed lovely and motivated and a generally awesome person so to know that a decade later she went through something so horrible as this…

The commonality of denying girls an education over clothing doesn’t make it any less wrong.

She is eight fucking years old. This is the parent/guardian issue and should have been dealt with by addressing them.

Never too young to start getting used to some form of “She must have been asking for it”.

You have established why it’s a rule, and have established that, because it is a rule, it generally should not be broken.

This is absolutely true. She is the single most frustrating, frightening character in the series. I have legitimate, visceral anger when reading Order of the Phoenix for the exact reason you say. She is knowable. While the magic she employs is obviously not real, her motivations and attitude are tangibly realistic.…

Dolores Bridge is the scariest Potter villian because she's the most real. All of us might know someone who is a little like her.

Dress codes can be great - the uniformity reduces non-homogenization and treats children to look beyond the physical appearance of a person. But that doesn’t magically make it worth SUSPENDING her over. She missed out on being educated for a day because the shade of her shirt was incorrect - that’s RIDICULOUS.…

I guess there’s a Pinkham’s Law for every damn story. SHE’S EIGHT.

So punishing the child for something the parent did is fair? I doubt this kid does her own school shopping.

You actually do neither of those things. Just call home and tell the parent she can’t wear the shirt again. Sending her home causes her to miss class time (and is essentially a suspension) and giving her a loaner can be humiliating, when the child actually did nothing wrong. This is an adult issue.

It’s not easy being (the right shade of) green.