Misconceptions, victim-blaming rife in Cornell, other sexual assault cases |
Grandpa Grover came to mind last week when a friend, after I posted comments from trolls on Facebook, replied, "Do not engage with the differently stable."
It's like she knows my family.
Grandpa would probably tell me not to get in the mud with the pigs because I'll just get dirty and the pigs like it. (It wasn't Grandpa, the storyteller in our family, but Nanny Opal who told me about the time her daddy came to visit and happened upon a bunch of drunk hogs because she poured into the trough what she thought was the contents of their slop bucket but was actually Grandpa's attempt to make muscadine wine. I love my family.)
Yet here I am again, dipping my toes in the mud.
But really, it's for some clarity on the Cornell sexual assault case, as we see so many of the same arguments discounting Jane Doe that are used against women as a rule.
I'm not saying I believe everything claimed in the case. However, there must be an actual investigation because the court of public opinion is not the place for it.
Jane Doe gave a lengthy interview to campus police, the transcript of which was 120 pages. What the campus police turned over to the district attorney's office, however, was a six-page summary, which omitted key context, and based on that, the office declined to file criminal charges, only reopening the case when the civil suit was filed last month. Her attorney Thomas Giuffra........