That Heavy link ends by saying that the police delayed other investigations to focus on this one.
Well the town was demanding blood. This became high profile real quick. When a case like this becomes national news, they have to make it a priority. Diverting resources that would have been used for other cases.
Oh, and as for the poster that hopes the backlash destroys this girl for the rest of her life: The hell is wrong with you?
She's going to have a criminal record. She'll probably have to pay restitution. She's going to lose her job. She's lost her fiance. She's lost the trust of her community. She's embarrassed her family. She's a pariah on social media. This will follow her for years to come.
Why would you want her to be tortured for life? What's the end game? Do you want rehabilitation, or do you want vengeance?
Well the town was demanding blood. This became high profile real quick. When a case like this becomes national news, they have to make it a priority. Diverting resources that would have been used for other cases.
Oh, and as for the poster that hopes the backlash destroys this girl for the rest of her life: The hell is wrong with you?
She's going to have a criminal record. She'll probably have to pay restitution. She's going to lose her job. She's lost her fiance. She's lost the trust of her community. She's embarrassed her family. She's a pariah on social media. This will follow her for years to come.
Why would you want her to be tortured for life? What's the end game? Do you want rehabilitation, or do you want vengeance?
She's going to have a criminal record. She'll probably have to pay restitution. She's going to lose her job. She's lost her fiance. She's lost the trust of her community. She's embarrassed her family. She's a pariah on social media. This will follow her for years to come.
Given the history of what happens when people lie about Blacks assaulting women, I can't blame someone for being upset enough by this story to say that. Somebody could've easily been killed.
Lying about rape should have serious consequences.
It demeans those who are raped and have to fight against those who tend to disbelieve them because of shit cases like this one.
Yeah, I'm sure the dumb girl who carved the backwards B in her face is surely still remembered, right? If you think this will have any long term damage to her you're being naive. She's 18. She'll move away and this shit will forgotten faster than the innocent black people she could have sent to jail would have even gotten considered for a rejection of a parole hearing.
Sad that mentally ill dont get the help needed in the US
Im fairly certain they are imitating those posts.Why am I not surprised to see the ol' "So and so isn't an asshole/racist, just mentally ill!" already?
I don't think anyone sensible would advocate for a system where simply not having enough evidence to get a conviction would turn it around and lock up a rape victim instead. But cases like this where they can do real damage and even admit it was a lie then they need to face real consequences.In a perfect world where the guilty never goes free yea. In reality that would make it even harder for real rape victims to report the crime and take it to court, would make it possible for real rapists where the evidence isnt strong enough to get them convicted to get their rape victims locked up, and so on.
Well the town was demanding blood. This became high profile real quick. When a case like this becomes national news, they have to make it a priority. Diverting resources that would have been used for other cases.
Oh, and as for the poster that hopes the backlash destroys this girl for the rest of her life: The hell is wrong with you?
She's going to have a criminal record. She'll probably have to pay restitution. She's going to lose her job. She's lost her fiance. She's lost the trust of her community. She's embarrassed her family. She's a pariah on social media. This will follow her for years to come.
Why would you want her to be tortured for life? What's the end game? Do you want rehabilitation, or do you want vengeance?
Why am I not surprised to see the ol' "So and so isn't an asshole/racist, just mentally ill!" already?
"If the races were reversed this would be national news"
Maaaaan shut your racist ass up. Tell that to the black children that to missing by the thousands every year with no news coverage comparing to pretty little white Suzie falling down a damn well.
Shit like that especially bothers me. At that point you're not just racist and ignorant you're straight up lying to other people.
All deserved. She should be in jail, this is a terrible thing to do.
People need to learn that this shit is very much not OK.
Very quick turn around to just make this water under the bridge. Nah, fuck her and her family. She is getting off lightly for this.That's really not an appetite term to use and you should refrain from using it in the future.
Really? So let's body shame here and make her probably already ruined mental imagine of herself even worse.
She fucked so let the law handle it:. The drive-by comments are disgusting and reflect poorly on you two that made them.
This reminds me of the time some new girl started working at my job and I mentioned her boyfriend's race just to see the reaction certain people would give:wtf
I bet she didn't want to get married anymore and in her mind claiming that she was raped by black guys would make her fiance "grossed" out.
I want less assholes to think blaming black people for their fucking life problems is a thing to just randomly do.
This could have turned into a witch hunt like it usually does and someone could have died.
Fuck her and fuck her life.
If you name a particular race as part of your false police report, it should be categorized as a hate crime.
So you want vengeance. Gotcha.
And before you think I'm judging you, I'm not. In the case of Emmett Till, I want an unreasonable amount of punishment against the woman who accused him. She damn well KNEW what would happen to him when men got their hands on Emmett.
I agree with this.If you name a particular race as part of your false police report, it should be categorized as a hate crime.
If you name a particular race as part of your false police report, it should be categorized as a hate crime.
Same thing that's been going on for hundreds of years: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...ing_our_women_racists_have_long_defended.htmlSeveral years ago someone in my area (also Texas) also made up a hoax attack of a dude "fending off an attempted car burglary" and the made-up perp was black.
I don't understand what the hell goes through these people's heads.
Things like this always leave me in a state of confusion. Whats the reasoning and motivation behind doing something like this?
I was told this never happens.
She should also be placed on a sex offender list.
If you name a particular race as part of your false police report, it should be categorized as a hate crime.
I know you were being sarcastic but there are people here on GAF who still believes that it's just 2% of all claims and none of them hurt or ruin the lives of others.
Absolutely not. She didn't sexually assault anyone.
Neither did someone taking a leak behind the bushes, nor did an 18yo boning his 17yo girlfriend.
So should we fix those or add more to the pile?
Neither did someone taking a leak behind the bushes, nor did an 18yo boning his 17yo girlfriend.
Wait you're actually being serious for once?
I don't think her registering as a sex offender makes sense in this case, neither does taking a leak in public, but she should do max 25 years, minimum 15 and life if someone actually got arrested.