a seventeen-year-old in canada has taken her own life after bullying uh... that
she had said deal with for over a year and a half she was allegedly the dictum
of a gang raped and she is a fifteen year old victim of gang rape and there
was before dot that was taking during the incident the photo when viral and
instead of people condemning that individuals that allegedly raped her
they decided to uh... humiliate and believe her instead calling for a slut
calling her all of these terrible names she had to change schools
and um... recently her mother found her uh... in the bathroom
she hanged herself and it's just
a disgusting story that shows you that the rape culture not only exists in
america it also exists in canada and other countries and we really need to
raise awareness about it and find a better way to solve this issue i should
also note that ad before uh... eight boys that allegedly raped her are not
facing any criminal charges at the moment
rights to
let's start with that because that just is just beyond imagination and there was
a
there was a pictures so it's not like there's no evidence ida from what i
really didn't even sound like there was a debate as to whether this was a report
you know you mean so
evidence no debate
how are these guys not you know and i get their young
and now there's a everything has a gray area but uh... i mean this is just
after some establishing rate took place in twenty eleven and no criminal charges
were filed a as you mentioned there was a photo and that photo shed
provide some evidence at least begin an investigation and that started trial but
that didn't happen and you know the uh... in that authorities in this case
said that there was insufficient evidence and that is why
they decided not to finally criminal charges but now that this poor girl
retail up
uh... pearson's has committed suicide
all the sender like okay well maybe will consider criminal charges that nobody
should work that way right it shouldn't have to get so far that it's uh... the
suicide of a teenage girl before your you're pressing charges
i mean there's so much wrong with this story it's crazy you know like the idea
the rape culture as you mentioned
and then
the fact that uh... he brings up all the the stuff with the technology they're
taking pictures and what were they thinking
is going to happen with the like this just so many layers of this
and then just the idea of kids that are fifteen that don't understand what
they're doing
but we have a tremendous using the rate by a stretch
we don't know all the details of it but
there's just so many layers of this especially when i think when you get to
something that you know you mean this is in
this was in a twenty nine-year-old woman
with you know bunch of twenty nine year old guys
just having that age thing in there i think ads just another bizarre
element to it
yeah pasting definitely adds a bizarre element to it because you're noticing
that there are these teenagers that think that this is acceptable behavior
and not only do they believe that it's acceptable
boast about it they take photos that i mean they take they create their own
evidence of the incident and they go around sharing it with others as if it's
like funny yeah
and it's a myriad that date flip the whole situation on its head instead of
going after the people that are doing this to a fifteen year old
they go after the victim right and a date you know selecting the victim right
so i'm gonna slightly speculate hearing guess that probably what happened with
this picture got out and then it's a nice school
and maybe she initially didn't feel that she was raped or something
gyno right she
a engaged in a type of sexual activity until days after i mean this is very
similar to the steubenville rape case you know that uh... the victim in the
student bill date rape case didn't know she was raped until all of these uh...
images and text messages came to her attention and she'll freaked out that
since you realize that happen and that's exactly what happened in the sky again
this goes to the aging because i think we can all
remember what it's like to be in high school in if you were in high school now
and you saw these pictures of some random girl you might be taking a look
what she got herself into that slot blot blah blah
so there is again this is has so much to do with the agent how these groups
in high school operate that without knowing anything about kids are in there
just forwarding the picture on imposing over the place andy you can see
in a bizarre ways that english is blamed for it
view change for it in a way that the guys just wouldn't be a pesticide sexism
checked that some guys don't they have saxon nazi not so you should expect them
and it's it's more of what we have to be better we have to educate react to you
make this type of bullying so on cool because that's the thing
it's a socially acceptable behavior i cal
and what we need to do is start campaigns and an find a way to make it
uncool that way since someone is believed that person get changed you
know what i mean i'd think that is happening kayaks we do believe that with
all the bully stuff at all the teams with the letter
we've got this thing is turning where bullying is not steam
as cool anymore you know if there's enough of the out there and it's made
fun of enough in pop culture now you know on family guy or whatever
that the police are now seen as justin insecure acting out for
and we just need to keep pushing that until catholic just disappear