Front page of the Chicago Tribune website, illustrating just how seriously we [our law/judicial systems] take crimes against women and girls. And yet the same argument about “smear campaigns” and “discrediting” continue to bubble up from the swamp to justify dismissal.
[Relevant stories circled: “teenager who killed herself a week after accusing a University of Notre Dame football player of sexually attacking her suggest that the campus police conducted a superficial investigation of their daughter’s allegations.”; “First one girl, then another: Light punishment and lack of treatment allow a repeat offender to stay on the streets as his behavior escalate”; “WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to be freed”]
(via 14kgoldnyc)