Blaming the victim.

[thesummerqueen]

For all we know she may have been a willing participant or whoring herself out. When caught she claims 'rape' to save face. For all we know she may have been made up the way decribed (make-up and clothing befitting a 20 something year old) advertising her services.

My boyfriend's daughter is 10. She doesn't even understand the vaguest notion of the concept of "whoring". What girls that age do understand is that dressing a certain way gets a certain amount of attention - something girls hitting puberty all hunger for.

If you want to argue perspective, I'd love to know what this "dressing older" meant, since I've been aghast at some of the shit they sell to 14 year olds and younger. In a close community, probably highly religious too since it's in TX, they could have considered any number of styles to be "too old" for her.

My point still stands, Dotard - no way does an 11 year old, even if she does understand the concept of prostitution, in any fucking way resemble someone old enough to legally have sex. Even if she said "sure I'll gang bang a bunch of guys" she still is too young. If the middle schoolers are convicted, maybe they would have been lenient on that count and said "well the youth of today are depraved" or whatever else, but a 19 year old picking her up? Give me a break.

Don't pull that bullshit on me about "girls appear older" these days, either. Even if she did look older, she couldn't have appeared more than 16.

Rape victims often don't come forward out of fear or shame. That same video could also hold proof that she was coerced.

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And Sae, my point about clothing was that I thought it was irrelevant in the face of the way the situation apparently escalated that someone accused her of "dressing beyond her age" and therefore I made a ridiculous example. There are men accused of gang raping her with video and pictorial evidence. In the case of rape, while I might well condemn a grown woman for wearing a skanky outfit in a bad part of town, the crime and blame still rests on the asshole who doesn't take "no" for an answer.