News Son Convicted Should Serve No Prison Time For "20 Minutes Of Action"

[Thematrix]

In Canada, there are 450, 000 sexual assaults a year with a 1% conviction rate

If it happens in the workplace, it is very likely, the perp will be protected and promoted and the victim will be attacked and harassed endlessly, until you are forced to quit and your life will be decimated on purpose tactically

If you have resulting PTSD you are a walking target

No system, process will protect you

Everything you are taught to believe will protect or help you is a lie and an illusion

In Canada, you will serve more time measured in years in your hell and being attacked for telling the truth, and doing the right thing, than if you committed murder-literally

 

[Deleted member 33880]

It is a real mess. As a rape survivor I do feel I have some experience of some of this kind of mess. I was thinking about the parents. We are all vilifying them. It is tempting to do as they have said some dreadful things. But I am also a parent myself now, i have a son the same age. I have a daughter the same age. I wouldn't want either of them to go through what these two people, perpetrator and survivor are going through. I would be distraught too if my son had got so drunk that he did something this criminal but I would have told him to admit his guilt and learn from it. I also would have wanted the culture around him to not be one of getting drunk and abusing other people but of having great parties without passing out from alcohol. It shocks me that universities promote a drunken culture. I think teaching our sons that moderate drinking is a couple of beers. And that if you drink more you might be so out of it that you might do something criminal that will impact your life and the life of someone else for years. His parents could have taught him to apologise to the woman, to be remorseful for being so drunk and doing criminal acts - to man up and accept the blame and responsibility for his actions. I don't think the parents are thinking straight and they should probably stop posting anything at this time as they are not able to think clearly. Maybe I am being too generous to them. My heart bleeds for the woman. She is courageous and magnificent and I applaud her every step of the way.

 

[GWhizz]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpo...youre-the-one-being-raped-404258.html?ref=yfp

I think the victim impact statement really rings true. We need to keep fighting this fight. Together. For me that's part of calling myself a survivor over a victim. It gives greater purpose. I've been dragged down enough in my life by this thinking that it's only a fleeting moment of pleasure for one, nevermind the never-ending enduring for the other. We need to keep speaking out together about this because obviously there's still the idea that it's tolerable.

I grew up in an environment where it was acceptable to scapegoat one person for the gratification of others. People could just forget about the individual actively DYING.

I think we need to take the focus off this family of imbeciles and consider how we may help this woman. She's been dragged through the dirt twice now. I applaud her courageousness being able to report this abuser, bring him to trial and sit through the media's exploitation and sensationalism of his moronic father's statement.

One thing that's always continued to hold back my own personal growth is the belief that no one would ever believe me.

We have to fight to amend this kind of thinking. People need to be helped to feel safe to speak out. That's why we need to pay attention to the hero in this story, not the twisted abusers who, with their skewed thinking of privilege, see themselves as victims. I guess in one sense they are victims to their twisted minds. It could take a lot of therapy to change that kind of thinking.

I hope to God I raise my 2 boys to be Men.