“He can now look forward to a productive life without being burdened with the stigma of having to register as a sex offender.

I’m approaching 28 and definitely feel like a kid with boobs and a shitton of student loan debt about 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time I’m watching “professionals” do and say the stupidest things and thinking, “Shit, I underestimate myself. I could run circles around this dope.”

Right there with you. Of the group of men who spent my late childhood and early teens raping, and torturing me only one ever served time, and was then allowed back in to the same community. He served 5 years.

5 years. And I’ve spent the last 30 years barely holding myself together, I’m borderline agoraphobic, have…

20 Minutes. My rapist took only about 15. That was >40 years ago, and I’ve never forgotten. These rapists think they are blameless. It only took 20 minutes, why is the rest of my life in ruins. BECAUSE THE REST OF MINE IS RUINED. POS

But how!?!???? Almost like you are responsible for your own actions!?!??

I remember when Irreversible came out and people were horrified about having to watch ten minutes of the one-take graphic rape of Monica Bellucci. It was awful and incredibly upsetting; I barely managed to sit through it.

I love when women watch out for other women

Made me think of an article I read that highlighted the need for shelters that allowed pets. It said that some women would decline a bed at shelters that didn’t allow pets and stay in cars, or on the streets instead because they couldn't stand being seperated from the pet and feared for the pet's life if they left the…

Most places have different rules for different parts of the case. There is a time from the date of arrest to when they are required to formally file charges. And then there is another date of when the case itself is supposed to adjudicated. That date can be extended through an order from the supreme court in the…