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Are people afraid to get involved, or just don't care??

post #1 of 134
10/26/09 at 4:15pm
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A 15 yr old was gang raped in a HS locker room after a dance..It was reported that there were 10 students who just watched & did nothing during the 2 hr ordeal.. I believe others also knew, & didn't inform police.. Personally, I would have been enraged, & some heads would have rolled.
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post #2 of 134
10/26/09 at 5:24pm
That's truly horrible, and very upsetting. Where did this happen?
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post #3 of 134
10/26/09 at 5:26pm
link! I'd likw to read up about this garbage... Why do people do this and those who watched and didn't report it need to get a spine.
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post #4 of 134
10/26/09 at 5:47pm
Won't the police hide your identity from the public if you request? It's not hard and I see no reason why someone can't just go up and talk to some person in charge about it.

Pisses me off when I hear things like this.
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post #5 of 134
10/26/09 at 5:48pm
Textbook response: People did not do anything because they thought someone else had already done something about it.

This is pretty bad though,
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post #6 of 134
10/26/09 at 5:52pm
This is part of how almost all of us are built.

See here
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post #7 of 134
10/26/09 at 6:06pm
IMO, anyone who stood around and watched and didn't report it should be charged as an accessory. I forgot who said it, but we are raising a generation of wimps and other words I can't use here.
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post #8 of 134
10/26/09 at 6:08pm
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Originally Posted by roadcykler View Post
IMO, anyone who stood around and watched and didn't report it should be charged as an accessory. I forgot who said it, but we are raising a generation of wimps and other words I can't use here.
The generation raising this one is the one who made this phenomenon famous.
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post #9 of 134
10/26/09 at 6:10pm
It is surely twisted what people will allow to happen when they know they're not the victim...
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post #10 of 134
10/26/09 at 6:27pm
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Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
The generation raising this one is the one who made this phenomenon famous.
haha burn.

Admittedly, Richmond is a bit of a rough-and-tumble area... who is to say the students watching knew what was going on? They're only 15 after all and the girl was drunk (if you've ever been to a party with drunk 15 yearolds around 19 yearolds... a lot of them are a bit... questionable)
Horrible thing to happen but I cant help imagine that the media is spinning this way out of control.

In after the police actually dont do anything about this. Capital punishment should be the price to pay for a crime like this. We're running out of space as it is - why should we let absolute wankers fill space up?

Wankers perpetuate wankers. Why dont we sieze the opportunity and fix half of the human race?


That said, theres nothing wrong with being a "wimp". I daresay that if the world were made entirely of these wimps itd probably be a much better place than it is currently.
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post #11 of 134
10/26/09 at 6:44pm
Considering every high school kid has a cellphone these days thats pretty appalling..
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post #12 of 134
10/26/09 at 6:48pm
hey i didn't have a Cell in High school nor do people i know going to high school.
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post #13 of 134
10/26/09 at 6:48pm
Was it a gang "rape" or a gang "bang"?

Sorry for being a bit crude. I was a court reporter for most of my Army career and so many times I've seen cases where the drunk female Soldier has sex with many male Soldiers while partying in the barracks and the next morning, once sober, she has to face the question: Was I a total slut? Or was I raped?
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post #14 of 134
10/26/09 at 6:49pm
Sometimes its a hard choice to get involved or not because in the US legal system things can easily twist against you just for trying to help. In the horrible case above, calling the cops/security was the minimum one of the bystanders could have done.
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post #15 of 134
10/26/09 at 7:02pm
Sounds to me like some of the bystanders did get "involved".
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