As long as the protestors don’t resort to violent action or harass his family and friends, I think this is an appropriate form of expressing anger about an obvious injustice. In lieu of a prison sentence, Turner will have to endure this humiliating protest and live with the shame forever, even if the actual…

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Thieves can pay restitution. It can be argued that they steal out of necessity.

I believe that sex offender registration and punishment is flawed, there are many people who are screwed over for life based on a technicality (like the 19 year old who met up with a 14 year old for sex, and he was punished even though she said she was 17, and she was on a dating site or app she was really too young…

You’re on a post about a little boy who was raped and murdered and you’re most worried about internet commenters saying mean things about convicted sex offenders?

Yeah, I do wish at least a mention in that other article about WHY that might be. Rarely reported, rarely prosecuted, rarely convicted, rarely appropriately sentenced.

Heinrich had previously pleaded guilty to 25 federal child pornography charges, but denied any involvement in Wetterling’s disappearance.

Yeah, some of those inland California places are such wastelands. Victorville, Barstow...I went through a part of Stockton that was like another world...giant potholes, broken curbs, people standing around aimless and glassy-eyed, staring, filthy...

Rural Southern California is scary. And I’m from rural Appalachia so that’s saying something.

Victorville is a shithole. Was there for work last week and had to cut short filling my gas tank because I felt my personal safety was at risk at the station. It’s in the high desert where there’s lots of land and space to do whatever the fuck you want without people knowing. I know situations like this exist but it…

I can’t imagine the psychological position of having filmed a rape scene informed by one’s own experiences and then to find out that the writer and director who helped create it were also accused of rape. Moral vertigo.

This is what makes me so crazy about the “Why would any real rape victim refuse to report the rape to the police?” narrative. The most probable result of reporting a rape to the police is that the victim will be grilled for hours about whether she wanted it, whether she said she didn’t want it enough times and…

I’m so tired of these pieces of shit entitled little boys that take and take and take from women and suffer little consequences. Our dignities, our bodies, our emotional well beings. I wish we could rid society of them all at once.

A 73-year-old lady in Ireland was brutally raped and her victim statement just ripped me apart. She dedicated part of it to all the women and children who were abused and silenced (by families and institutions) in Ireland for so many years:

It would be glib to reduce the public circulation of victim impact statements to a “trend,” yet many victims are retooling the statement as a public document, used to write their own narrative of the crime perpetrated on them while still maintaining their anonymity.

Hennepin County is notoriously awful when it comes to prosecuting sex crimes. I know several women, myself included, whose perpetrators of rape, domestic violence, and violating restraining orders either were never charged or weren’t charged until multiple women came forward.

TWELVE DAYS! She must have been so terrified. And then to have him come after her again... The justice system let her down in every way.

In a story where every detail is horrifying this one stands out

Fuck Judge Gary Gilman. This woman’s death is on your hands asshole. And as usual incompetent men won’t suffer consequences while this woman is now dead.