One where going to church makes you a good person, even if you rape your daughter and beat your son the other six nights of the week. (Oh, yeah, one article mentioned that he goes to church as a reason he’s not such a bad guy.)

Right?!

The attitude of the family towards the boys vs the girl really highlights the attitude that led to and enabled her sexual abuse in the first place. In their eyes the basic concerns of the little girl, including her physical safety, are utterly unimportant. The interests of the boys and even the vile prurient interests…

There’s a change.org petition:

Totally, because she is representing a segment of society people don’t want to hear from. I don’t always like Allred’s style or some of her clients (but as a lawyer, I have to admit to not always liking my own clients) but she had done so much great work in representing women and women’s rights. I’ve read some great…

Yes. The only thing this evil man deserves to be reintegrated into is the earth from whence we all come. Not that it would excuse it, but is financial support a possible reason why the family might not want him jailed?

You know what I always think? This Judge must be rapey too, why else would he be sentencing so incredibly differently than the prosecutors recommendations. 25 years! ETA: punctuation etc

My mom and dad got separated while she was pregnant with me and divorced shortly after I was born. Dad got remarried and had 3 girls with wife number 2. I was a bit jealous until I got a call from her saying that dad was in jail for raping my sisters. Last week, 20 years later, I get a call from wife number 4 that he…

Yep—100%. The tape was the catalyst as someone said above...but the actual moment that would have done it for me (had I been one of these women) would be the moment Anderson Cooper relentlessly hammered him “did you do those things? Yes or no? Did you?” He tried to dodge over and over . AC was having none of it.

All of these children have been betrayed and abused by both of their parents to varying vile degrees.

I feel the same. I wish everything were different for her and I really worry what this will do to her mental and emotional well-being for years to come. Being told and repeatedly shown that your abuse does not matter as much as x, y, z, other thing -especially the abuser himself- fucks you up in ways that can take a…

What fucking disgusting community is he a part of where they want him reintegrated?

Sounds like all of his children should be immediately removed from that family’s sphere of influence. And potentially out of the community that apparently wants a rapist father back.

need their father in their lives

I keep typing out responses and deleting them, but what is there to say? My heart breaks for that little girl.

No, the sons will be better off not having a rapist in there life. How do we now he didnt also touch one of his sons. Ugh.

Much better that a girl should be forced to live a man who raped her repeatedly than that boys should have to be sad because their father wasn’t allowed to repeatedly rape their sister with no consequences.

The first paragraph is sort of an interesting point. The second paragraph makes me want to travel back in time and let this free-roaming free spirit play with a Lawn Darts set.

The gendered language is the problem. It’s not ok for men, who aren’t obligated to provide child care, legally or socially, the way women are, to attack women for doing that work. It’s not ok to claim that women’s attention is corrupting. It’s also not ok to not understand that pro-social behavior, including risk…

This gif makes me feel ill. Yesterday I showed it to a friend who hadn’t seen it before and she actually yelled out in horror and disgust when she saw it. Here’s a palate cleanser!