thank you!

I'm just now getting to read the comments on your story, Anna. I can't bear to re-read it since the first time, as we've been living with the stories rattling inside our heads and breaking our hearts for weeks. The same outrage and heartache your readers express is what compelled us to take on this fight. I ask that…

The thing that comes through loudest here is the complete lack of understanding of sex and consent among the teens at Norman High. That is too often the subtext to a lot of these terrible rape stories. We have a general population with a very shaky notion of what real consent is. It makes you wonder where that…

Huh? It wasn't recorded by a police officer and Oklahoma is a one-party consent state, meaning it was recorded legally because one person in the conversation had knowledge the recording was being made. Lawyers jump in here and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you're correct.

The interesting thing is that the police cannot use the recording. It was recorded without a warrant, and as such cannot be used in any criminal trial.