savannah and dietrich who is a seventeen-year-old who i was a victim of
sexual assault and let let's go ahead and watch the video and then will
comment on it
defense was sexually assaulted about a year ago when she passed out after
drinking
two teenage boys assaulted her took pictures and shared those pictures with
others i'm at the point that if i have to go to jail for my rights i will do it
if they really feel it's necessary to throw me in jail for talking about what
happened any as opposed to throwing these boys in jail for what they did to
me and i don't understand justice of is obviously that needs a little bit of
context here
what actually happened is that
and that you know the all of these um... individuals are under age and so uh...
during the court and proceedings
she had twenty eight out the names of her attackers and apparently there's
kind of a gag order on her to be able to do that and it was at term of a plea
agreement that had been settled between the boys for pleading guilty to
first-degree sexual assault and misdemeanor voyeurism which
kateri hundred eighty days in jail in a five hundred dollar fine
now i'm sitting in a transition didn't know about the plea agreement and she
was just i think at this point setup with all of the time that had gone into
this with what she felt was a slap on the wrist kind of uh... punishment or
would be punishment answer sheet we did at the names of these blaze and the boys
lawyers
wanted to basically charger with contempt four
violating that agreement
so there's a possibility that she was going to person
when she was the one who was sexually assaulted so uh... that seemed
a bit much to a lot of people in the country and in fact change that work the
petition
to make sure that that didn't happen over eighty thousand signatures
and now we've just found out that it turns out that those lawyers for the
boys have withdrawn
of what it what they were trying to transfer with
so that she is not going to be uh...
you know responsible
for those actions that you won't be going to jail or anything along those
lines
now
what what do you think though about the essence of the case at so
big let's say she did know about it she did know about it she did know about it
is a defeat weeks about everybody's on our side
activist she if she did know about it
is she fully within our rights and a building with the jury said this happen
to me and i'm not gonna let them get away with well that's what i want to
know i mean this i think that this is a difficult situation because of the legal
structure as it stands doesn't allowed for minors and needs to be released
actually and will fall even lease turn into the media with her parents
permission because she wanted to raise awareness about this
but because of the terms of the agreement and she wasn't allowed to
release these boys names now her lawyer was arguing that this is obviously a
violation of free speech and so it makes me wonder if if the boys lawyers had to
drop the charges and this had actually gone before jury
where would it have come out you know what would this have been found to be at
violation of free speech i don't because it seems like this issues coming up more
and more and more obviously we don't want to see of the done bebe victimized
in court you know we don't see but i'd that something that we have to remember
when the laws are drafted drafted with all of this context they're drafted you
know pertains to that particular thing and of course protecting
that identities of young people whether they are victims of a crime or whether
they actually perpetrated the crime i think is important
right and i think that no reasonable corp move
put her in jail for this anyway at and i think that what they're trying to do is
understand would protect human aisles who've been charged with some crimes
uh... now
it seems understandable if you're not involving the situation but if you're
hurt your parents those same understandable at all
and especially the thought that the allies centers that begin with the your
doubly outraged
i think that they have a long place to make sure that adults don't violated
that meeting you know if you're not involving the case in your
releasing the name of those boys to the press
that he has been a lot of us would agree with you should face contempt charges
there was a gag order you've got nothing new with this case why did you do that
and uh... and there's a reason why we protect you and aisles right
now having said that you know in this case i think that there is a record in
the country that was said to her are now you know a lot of talk about a sexual
assault it you face