Okay, that's fine, except it has absolutely nothing to do with this article whatsoever, so you are just stirring up shit by posting about it here, and you know it. Find another place to talk about this, if you really desperately need to. The comment section of an article about the rape of a fourteen year old child is…

Wow. Who on earth said anything about denying this woman the right to be proud of anything else in her life besides weight loss? The first mention I saw of that in any thread on this article was from you. If this — attacking other people with arguments you pulled out of your own head and dropping "fuck you" bombs…

You're not happy unless you don't care about your weight... Or something like that.

See this is what is not ok. Someone tells you they have a goal, and you say, have fun failing. Then you wonder why people react badly to you.

Wrong. All recent reputable studies say there is no link. None. Zero.

So she should accept any physical issue without trying to change it?

This judge has the milky, dazed eyes of that grandpa who gives you candy and then tells you loving stories about the Nazis while making stroking your arm a little too close to your budding breasts.

Something tells me that reaction to this story is going to be entirely measured with no extreme positions taken.

And now I have the Boston song, Amanda, running through my head extra loud and ragey.
"I'm gonna take you by the hand, and MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND, Amanda. I'm gonna tell you right away, I WON'T WAIT ANOTHER DAY, Amanda."

She probably did it just to make her rapist look even WORSE on the internetz. My God! These rape victims are just diabolical.

wait wait wait. Please correct me if I am reading this wrong but - it says the case was still pending when she committed suicide. Still pending means, not tried yet, right? In which case, amend the charges! Could he have not been charged with felony murder (okay not FM, but involuntary manslaughter, or something to…

Oh No!! He lost his marriage after raping a 14 year old!! Hasn't he suffered enough?! HASN"T HE SUFFERED ENOUGH?!?

How's this for uplifting news? We're organizing a protest in Billings to stand with victims that already has 150 RSVPs. And have a petition going to get the judge in the case to retire: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/resign-ju…

responding to promote
ETA: not that it does much good since I'm a grey...

If she was a sound mind why did she end up killing herself? You know what fuck this shit.

Just when I thought it couldn't get worse.

Of the 100+ things that make me angry about this story... He claims this "ruined his life", but at least he has a life. She's DEAD. She has nothing. His actions caused (or largely contributed to) not only her death, but also the destruction of a family, because they will never get her back.

The victim was a person of color. I'm officially not surprised that her life and her innocence are being devalued this way.

Terminate the sex-offender and rape apologist judge with extreme prejudice.

AAAAGGHHHHH.