plime.com : crime : Teen alleging rape turns to YouTube

Crystal is one of dozens of young people who are turning to social networking sites to talk about sexual assualt.

Some do it as a form of therapy, others like Crystal do it because they feel slighted by the justice system which often has a hard time convicting rape cases or as in Crystal's case when the prosecutor doesn't file rape charges at all. picked by 2manyusernames 2 months ago

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37	2manyuse...

2 months ago

"Hi, my name is Crystal. ... I need some help. I didn't want to do it this way, but it's the only way I know that's going to work, that someone out there in the world is gonna listen to me."

Case info:

http://www.myorangeclerk.com/myclerk/

enter case#
2007-CF-0017645-O

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36	dollylla...

2 months ago

Twice you've "scooped" me.

Yeah, it's a sad fact of life that victims have to turn to the internet to get any sort of help. And Florida seems to be failing miserably (I'm sure it's not the only state, but it's mentioned specifically in the article) when it comes to rape.

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8	JoshSF49

2 months ago

« dollyllama : Twice you've "scooped" me.

Yeah, it's a sad fact of life that victims have to turn to the internet to get any sort of help. And Florida seems to be failing miserably (I'm sure it's not the only state, but it's mentioned specifically in the article) when it comes to rape.

Sometimes, though, it's really difficult to prove rape, and the D.A. has to go on a cost-benefit analysis. The taxpayers aren't going to be happy if the D.A. continues to bring cases to trial and can't prove them.

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37	2manyuse...

2 months ago

Sorry about scooping you like that.

Sadly due to the nature of the crime and the severity of the possible sentencing, rape can often times be hard or even impossible to prove.

I wouldn't say it was a "cost-benefit analysis". More of the fact that often times there is little evidence that the act was not consensual.

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36	dollylla...

2 months ago

« 2manyusernames : Sorry about scooping you like that.

Sadly due to the nature of the crime and the severity of the possible sentencing, rape can often times be hard or even impossible to prove.

I wouldn't say it was a "cost-benefit analysis". More of the fact that often times there is little evidence that the act was not consensual.

Oh I'm not necessarily blaming the prosecutors (though Florida still has a "deep south" mentality when it comes to women (in general, not specifically).

Well as the article states:

"What you hear from every rape crisis center from Pensacola to Key West is that there are hardly ever any prosecutions," she said. "Most sexual violence is acquaintance rape, and unfortunately, a lot of juries still think that if a victim had a relationship with their attacker, then they cannot be raped by that person."

Obviously, the people who sit on juries, that's the average citizen, really aren't enlightened.

Present company excepted, of course.

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4	lilyang

2 months ago

Pretty sad stuff. You are right that rape cases are hard to prove and for a multitude of reasons. The whole issue is muddy at best. It's too bad and hopefully we'll make progress on it in the future.

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