Originally published at The Electronic Intifada There are two groups of people Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has spent his career resolutely defending. The first is Israeli war criminals. And the second is accused and convicted rapists. As rape allegations against Dershowitz intensify, his increasingly bellicose denials, steeped in brazen hostility towards child victims of sexual abuse, are raising eyebrows. With […]
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Originally published at The Electronic Intifada Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz always felt children were fair game for Israeli missiles. Now the question is whether he thinks they are fair game for the sexual exploits of his powerful associates and himself. Dershowitz and the UK’s Prince Andrew were accused in a recent court filing of raping a teenage girl who was forced […]
(Updated below) Fifty-four-year-old Stacey Dean Rambold, a former high school teacher in Montana, was sentenced to 30 days in prison for raping 14-year-old Cherice Morales. That’s right, just 30 days.
(Update at the bottom) A reader of Dispatches from the Underclass who grew up in Steubenville, Ohio, has alerted me to a protest planned for Saturday, March 30, in support of Steubenville High School head football coach, Reno Saccoccia. “This man does alot for kids, you cannot blame a coach for the actions of a few kids!”, […]
The worst is not yet behind the young woman who was raped by two Steubenville High football players in the football obsessed town of Steubenville, Ohio. CBS News reports that just one day after her rapists, Trent Mays and Ma’Lik Richmond, were convicted, two teens have been arrested for threatening to kill her. Surprisingly, her female […]
The Los Angeles Times reports that two veteran police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department are under investigation for using the threat of jail to force several women they had previously arrested to have sex with them. Though the crimes committed are horrific, this wouldn’t be the first time rapists disguised as police officers […]
The repeated rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl in the small football-loving town of Steubenville, Ohio, in August is making national headlines thanks to the diligence of Alexandria Goddard, a crime blogger, and the internet vigilanteism of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Yet, in spite of all the new attention focused on this horrific act, the media is […]
In my last post, I forgot to include, as an example of rape culture, a gang rape that took place in Steubenville, an Ohio football town where at an August end-of-summer party, members of the Steubenville football team raped a passed out 16-year-old girl, who was from a nearby West Virginia town, and then dragged her […]
The public gang rape of a college student in India has rightly sparked global outrage about violence against women, forcing rape to become a topic of discussion for even US media outlets. For the first time that I can recall, mainstream publications are using the phrase “rape culture” to describe the environment that fosters and […]
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