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Friday, November 10, 2017

This Is Exactly Why Women Don't Report Sex Crimes

Women have historically been extremely hesitant to report sexual harassment because they will be called liars, the abuser's pals will say they did nothing wrong, and the victims will be threatened with physical, financial and legal retribution.

Republican officials in Alabama staunchly defended their party’s Senate nominee, Roy S. Moore, after a report that he had made sexual advances toward four teenage girls when he was in his 30s.

The Washington Post reported that, in early 1979, Mr. Moore, then a district attorney and later the chief justice of the state Supreme Court, had approached a 14-year-old, eventually kissing her, undressing her, touching her over her bra and underpants, and guiding her hand to touch him over his underwear.
Moore claims that there's nothing to the women's allegations. Some Republicans basically admitted that Moore was guilty, but didn't care or think it was wrong, and some even played the Bible card:
Alabama’s state auditor, Jim Ziegler, told The Washington Examiner that the women’s claims were “much ado about nothing” and said that Mr. Moore had done nothing “immoral or illegal.” (Alabama law, both in 1979 and now, finds that someone who is 19 or older and has sexual contact with someone between the ages of 12 and 16 is guilty of second-degree sex abuse.)
Mr. Ziegler sought to justify Mr. Moore’s actions by comparing him to the biblical Joseph, saying, “Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus.” 
According to this line of reasoning, it's okay for a 32-year-old man to cop a feel from a 14-year-old girl because Jesus.

Then the Pizzagate conspiracist, Jack Posobiec, published a photo and the address of Moore's accuser online. As you may recall, Posobiec inspired a nut with a gun to shoot up a pizza joint. Now he has threatened Moore's victim with similar attacks.

And then there was this was scumbag:
Ed Henry, a state representative, told The Cullman Times, in Cullman County, Ala., that the women who came forward should be subject to legal action.

“If they believe this man is predatory, they are guilty of allowing him to exist for 40 years,” he said. “I think someone should prosecute and go after them. You can’t be a victim 40 years later, in my opinion.”
This weasel is blaming the victim for the crimes of a powerful sexual predator -- Moore was a DA in 1979 -- and then threatening to use the court system to attack and silence her. And then they wonder why women wait 40 years to report the assault.

At least guys like Louis C.K. have the guts to admit what they did was wrong and apologize for it. But Moore doesn't think he did anything wrong; he thinks he owns girls and women and can do anything he wants with their bodies. He can kiss them, fondle them, take away their birth and control and stop them from having abortions for pregnancies caused by unwanted intercourse with older men.

This is the same hypocrite who put the 10 commandments on the wall of his courtroom and on state property, pretending to be all holier than thou.

Moore is an unrepentant animal who preyed on young girls. We should not be surprised. Moore was the lone dissenter in the 2015 conviction of a 17-year-old daycare worker who sexually assaulted 3- to 5-year-olds.

The kid was just following in Moore's footsteps, after all.

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