Not only that, but the harm didn’t stop after those 20 minutes. The woman had to have a medical exam after, she had to be exposed to the media’s take on her trauma, she had to go through a trial. Not to mention the lasting psychological effects. This father and son are both fucking garbage.

You visibly think highly of yourself. But if you took a step back and re-read your replies as well as not_productive’s replies, you’d realize not_productive makes efforts to politely explain their point of view while you more or less subtly insult them in each of your replies as if everything they wrote was the most…

Lol what the fuck is wrong with you

He's not even defending his kid — he's literally defending rape.

You’re the dude who wrote the letter, aren’t you?

Just because you're an idiot doesn't mean the rest of us have to be.

There’s a difference between “my son made a horrible mistake and I am asking for leniency” and “hey, listen, he shouldn’t be punished for raping an unconscious woman he found on the ground next to a dumpster, because it was only 20 minutes, and anyway, he doesn’t even like pretzels now, right?”

NOPE. Lots of dads would publish open letters saying “I am horrified at the criminal behavior of my son. I have no idea where exactly in his upbringing he developed the ability to be sexually aroused by an unconscious person, but any part in that that I have played, I sincerely apologize for. We have had him screened…

I drank a shit ton of wine last night and I managed not to rape anyone.

Every time I read a report about someone being beaten or choked, I think about how long two minutes is when I’m stirring cake batter or kneading bread. It’s always longer than I think it will be. To imagine a child being harmed for that long, or for someone to have to look into the face of an attacker, is so…