It is very very very rare for kids to make up sexual abuse. It is far more common that moms are so desperate to keep a man in their life (be it for emotional, financial, or other reasons) that they allow their kids to be abused.

She asked for help more than once. Her mother first, and then some random asshole on the internet. None of this should have happened to her. 

the thing i really don’t get ( & don’t even have kids) is how you don’t double check/believe your kid on something like this. if i had a child, esp my own, be like something-something-a-person-in-our-house-is-doing-sex-to-me i would that same second would not only be checking everything & calling the police, but i…

Fuck jail, I’m generally anti death penalty, but some people just need a bullet between the eyes. 

I am so sorry you had to go through that, but I’m also happy that your mother believed you, when it seems like many women are in denial that the man they care about could do such awful things.

Fuck her cunt mother is right. I was looking for the right words and those are it. How can one poor child only be surrounded by trash adults?

I hope her cunt mother goes to jail and loses custody of this girl and any other children she has forever. She doesn’t deserve to be anyone’s mother. 

I was lucky enough to be believed by my mom when I told her my stepfather was molesting me and we left the next morning when he went to work. This poor girl, the betrayal of not having your own mother not believe you and put you in further harms way. I hope she gets the therapy and support she needs with trustworthy…

She had the courage to speak out and ask for help. And was further abused. Fuck everything. Fuck everyone who failed her. Fuckkkkk. 

I hate every adult in this story, including Rogers mother, who helped harbor the girl. Anyone with an ounce of compassion and two brain cells to rub together would have alerted the authorities.

Fuck everyone in this story except for the girl and the police who found her. I hope all of these terrible adults get exactly what they deserve. 

That guardian should be investigated for child abuse.

Apparently it was the child’s guardian who called the police.

“I am technically guilty of this crime but seriously fuck this for being a crime”

Really the person to blame here is the prosecutor. They have incredibly broad discretion in what charges to bring and it’s just another example of how bad most prosecutors in this country are that they thought this charge was a good idea.

I really wish you could enter a plea of “this law sucks” in addition to either guilty or not guilty.

For real. I would consider letting this go to trial and see if a jury of my peers would convict me. 

Inmate A: what are you in for?

But Brock Turner got no jail time for raping an unconscious woman. Good old American Justice. 

None of this is ok, yet all of it is normal.