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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
It's a very depressing read.
But also an instructive look at what happens when you start an investigative journalism piece with a pre-conceived slant. Could be as much slanting going on here as in the SI/oSu piece.
If the parents push for an investigation into the incident (which they have the right to do but which I can't imagine leading to a conviction unless the tape Woodland references resurfaces - the tape he has been hanging on to for 4 years), this is going to get even more sickening and disgusting.
I have a close friend who was raped in college (and impregnated by her attacker). I tried to be there for her in the aftermath, which was the worst thing I've experienced emotionally other than the death of my grandfathers. It was terrible. At one point, she told me she wished he'd just killed her, because each day she lived though it again and again, and it was like he got to keep killing her again and again.
She's mostly OK now - a decade later, married and with children - but I know it still causes her intense pain and still comes back to her far too often.
One of the reasons I consider rape to be the worst possible thing you can do to another human being, and have zero sympathy for convicted rapists.
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I don't read these stories because they are depressing and they are full of conjecture. I also avoid stories by Espn because they are sensationalizing schools/pro teams (in this case one I hate) which is patently unfair to the accused.
In this instance, without knowing anything about the actual article, they're already creating an unfair attack on Mizzou at large. Which is bullshit.