Another poster (‘begandchoose’) already answered you far more eloquently and with a lot more patience than I can muster.

best I can tell 50/50. The end result is the only way for justice is mob justice because legal justice is easily bribed and willfully ignoring it. Of course I can only go by what Indians tell me and what I read. One guy told me they call it Rapeistan.

Because unlike murder, robbery, carjacking, stabbing, or home invasion, where there’s usually a dead body, fingerprints, a broken nose, wounds and blood, or stolen loot, many rapes take place between a man and a woman in private and don’t leave blatant signs of violence. So, it becomes her word against his word. And,…

Sweet Jesus...

Given that the police are accused of harassing the family in this case... Likely because is isn’t politically popular or it occurs in the more remote areas where the courts have less direct influence.

Because they still have a caste system in this day and age? Because they are one of the more populated and dense countries in the world? Because much like the Republicans view abortion, it is traditional?

Ok. Let me get this straight... You’re saying planned, community sanctioned beatings of and gang rapes of girls, followed by their public humiliation is some how on par with college football players raping drunk girls at parties?

Law is only meaningful if it it can be enforced. Under international law Kurdistan is a country and Taiwan is not. How is that working out?

Not legally isntitutionalized and enforced as a means of reprimand, no. On that count it’s very much O.

“... yet they remain deeply influential in parts of India.”

Yeah, but here it’s not culturally sanctioned by the “elders” of a community. Pretty much every DA in this country would send gang rapists to the penitentiary for many, many years.

Oh please, there is no country that Jezebel commenters condemn more broadly and universally than the U.S. If someone kicked a cat and it got reported on Jezebel, there would be universal condemnation of America. Also, this is the Internet, the land of generalizations.

Rapes as sentences dictacted by non-government psuedo local councils as punishments for actions others have done, and which are supported by the community? No, this does not happen in America. Stop being a part of the problem by trying to defend the shitty parts of your peoples’ culture and instead admit that it’s…

In American culture rape is a crime of lust/aggression perpetrated in secret by criminals... not a punishment levied in lieu of a fine announced to the public by “village elders”.

We don’t have unelected groups of men in rural areas sentencing children to rape. Signed an American.

Sure, rape culture is not a problem that exists in India only, although we cannot deny how pervasive and brutal it is. However, the prevalence of rape culture is not the only thing that this criticism of India is about. To ignore the caste system’s impact and to ignore how deeply ingrained it is in India is absolutely…

Wow, way to miss the points completely, and completely disregard how fucked up “the case” above is.

America has zero rapes happening as punishment for law breaking. It is in fact against the law to rape. I know India is not the worst place in the world, and all the American Indians I’ve met have been great. But come the fuck on, no way that is comparable at all.

it’s natural to want to defend your country but publicly sanctioned punishment rapes might not be the best hill to die on...

Hi, lawyer here (though admittedly not in CA). They have to sue the deceased because she’s the one who collided with them. They might sue Caitlyn too but ultimately she’ll probably be brought in as a third-party defendant by the insurance company of the deceased woman. If it makes you feel any better, the woman’s auto…