Monday, January 13, 2014

CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN & GIRLS DON'T COUNT FOR MUCH IN US


FROM READER SUPPORTED NEWS


Steubenville Rapist Released After 10 Months, While Activist Who Exposed Him Faces 10 Year Sentence

By Jodie Gummow, AlterNet
12 January 14

The disparity in sentences reveal a perversion of justice.

ne of the two teens convicted in the notorious 2012 Steubenville rape case cover-up, where a 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted after an alcohol-fueled party, has been released after just 10 months Fox News reported.
Ma’Lik Richomond, 16, was released for “good behavior.” His family released a statementexplaining how hard the last 16 months have been for their son and asking for the media to respect his privacy.
Yet, there was no apology made to the victim, triggering a response from her attorney Robert Fitzsimmons, Channel 7 WTRF reported:
"Although everyone hopes convicted criminals are rehabilitated, it is disheartening that this convicted rapist's press release does not make a single reference to the victim and her family — whom he and his co-defendant scarred for life. One would expect to see the defendant publicly apologize for all the pain he caused rather than make statements about himself. Rape is about victims, not defendants. Obviously, the people writing his press release have yet to learn this important lesson," he said.
Meanwhile, in a clear case of justice gone bad, the 26-year-old activist Deric Lostutter who leaked the evidence that helped convict the two boys in a published video is facing more jail time than the rapists themselves, after the FBI raided his house in April, according to PolicyMic.
Lostutter initially denied he was the man behind the masked video, but decided to come forward because he was appalled by the reaction of the young kids involved. He now faces up to ten years imprisonment for his role in obtaining tweets and social media posts which exposed the details of the rape as well as threatening action against the Steubenville football players and school officials accused of covering up the crime.
The video was posted to the football team website and brought national attention to the rape story.
 

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+58# RMDC 2014-01-12 12:30
this is disgusting but not surprising. Crimes against women or girls never have counted for very much in the US. They only count when the US wants to invade a country because there are rapes taking place.

but Lostutter hacked into the web. That's a serious crime in the minds of the US police. Only the NSA, FBI, CIA and about a hundred other government agencies have the right to hack into the net and find out what people are posting. Lostutter's crime was against the police agencies of the US regime -- and that is something that cannot be forgiven. 

What a fucked up nation. Fucked up FBI.
 
 
+38# babaregi 2014-01-12 13:53
RMDC
Yep, and most everyone else is oblivious (and like it that way) while watching the latest football game or whatever.
It's frustrating and scary to me to witness and wonder how things will turn out.
 
 
+20# Anarchist 23 2014-01-12 19:22
Welcome to the Rapist Nation: the Untied Stasi Staats of Amerikkka..wave your bacon flag proudly..red and white stripes of bacon with a moldy corner! Oh well, women are really less than human anyway...down in Texas there is a dead female body kept on machines so it can continue to incubate a fetus...women belong to the Staat, not themselves in this pig country under its bacon flag (apologies to the pigs who are as clean as are allowed and are also tortured in animal concentration camps so real Merkans can have their bacon!)
 
 
+35# nirmalandhas 2014-01-12 22:21
So exposing a crime is a crime in America...?
 
 
+5# keenon the truth 2014-01-13 06:33
Well, you only have to think of Snowden!
 
 
+6# keenon the truth 2014-01-13 06:47
And you can't expect much from a justice system that penalises innocent farmers who had the terrible misfortune to farm near farms using Monsanto seed, and had their crops contaminated. Apparently they were guilty of stealing Monsanto's patent.
 
 
+11# MrBtfsplk 2014-01-12 22:32
Makes me wonder who is making these suggestions for punishment...

Some sociopath in power, trying to assuage his own guilt and inadequacy?
 
 
+2# cordleycoit 2014-01-12 23:39
Looks like the power elite are striking back' Of course the Feds want the whistle blower They are following the orders of our Maximum Leader.
 
 
+6# darthvadersmom 2014-01-13 03:48
Derik Lostutter focused on the victim and is the hero of the story. His name should get the press not the rapist's. Can you interview him???
 
 
+4# rhgreen 2014-01-13 06:12
The US is a sick country.
 
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