Yet another man has come forward in partially blaming a rape victim for that very crime. On Fox News' Shepard Smith Reports, attorney Joseph DiBenedetto made the following statement in light of news that a Missouri teenager had been raped by a classmate:
"What did she expect to happen at one in the morning after sneaking out? I'm not saying - assuming that these facts are accurate and this did happen - I'm not saying she deserved to be raped, but knowing the facts as we do here including what the prosecutor has set forth, this case is going nowhere and it's going nowhere quick."
To his credit, host Shepard Smith followed DiBenedetto's despicable remarks by saying this: "What you've done, Joseph, is taken tan alleged victim of rape and turned her into a liar and a crime committer. That's a far jump from a thousand miles away."
I love how people like DiBenedetto believe that if X goes out past a certain time in a certain area and is the victim of a crime, then he or she was asking for it! Where's the sympathy? The empathy? The compassion? What if it was DiBenedetto's daughter who had been out fairly late and had been raped? Would he have the same reaction? "Well, she should have known better." I highly doubt it... No matter how late it is, no matter how much alcohol one has drank, no one deserves to be raped. Mathematically speaking, while someone whom goes out late and gets intoxicated places themselves at a higher risk of being raped, that still does not mean it was their fault they were raped. I'm getting a little sick and tired of these male rape apologists. Maybe they and rapists alike should start thinking more with their conscience (if they have one) and less with their penis.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/joseph-dibenedetto-rape-missouri-teen_n_4118899.html
"What did she expect to happen at one in the morning after sneaking out? I'm not saying - assuming that these facts are accurate and this did happen - I'm not saying she deserved to be raped, but knowing the facts as we do here including what the prosecutor has set forth, this case is going nowhere and it's going nowhere quick."
To his credit, host Shepard Smith followed DiBenedetto's despicable remarks by saying this: "What you've done, Joseph, is taken tan alleged victim of rape and turned her into a liar and a crime committer. That's a far jump from a thousand miles away."
I love how people like DiBenedetto believe that if X goes out past a certain time in a certain area and is the victim of a crime, then he or she was asking for it! Where's the sympathy? The empathy? The compassion? What if it was DiBenedetto's daughter who had been out fairly late and had been raped? Would he have the same reaction? "Well, she should have known better." I highly doubt it... No matter how late it is, no matter how much alcohol one has drank, no one deserves to be raped. Mathematically speaking, while someone whom goes out late and gets intoxicated places themselves at a higher risk of being raped, that still does not mean it was their fault they were raped. I'm getting a little sick and tired of these male rape apologists. Maybe they and rapists alike should start thinking more with their conscience (if they have one) and less with their penis.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/joseph-dibenedetto-rape-missouri-teen_n_4118899.html
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