My first reaction based only on what was posted here, is how predictable such an act is. In AARC I watched young victims of exploitation (13-15 year old girls who were recruited and drugged) be told it was their fault or their "disease" that made them sell their bodies, when so obviously it was manipulative and dangerous men doing it to them.
There was a newcomer girl who was raped around age 14 or 15, and who was one of those victims of exploitation. The boy who raped her later become a newcomer himself, and never had to "make amends" for what he'd done. In fact she was punished for bringing it up.
I watched these young girls be humiliated in front of the group, undergo long "blast raps", and be restrained. Then these girls are paraded in front of the parents and media because curing a prostitute, supposedly someone who stooped to a low by choice to feed a drug habit, is the ultimate happy ending. The amount of degradation AARC subjected these girls to over months and years in my opinion is far worse than selling ones body.
So why wouldn't an AARC boy treat a sex worker violently? He's just spent a good year (if not more)being verbally violent towards them. He's maybe thrown chairs at them or chap stick, restrained them and sat on them, or denied them food or toilet paper. He's probably told them how "hurt'n" they are and then told them what they need to do to change their life. Why wouldn't he think he's better than a sex worker? Why wouldn't he think she's a "lowlife druggie"? He's been taught that the only reason someone would do such a thing is because of drugs. Acting out physical violence towards such a woman is just manifesting the thoughts that have been bread into him. I'm sure he's not the only AARC "miracle" out there using and mistreating sex workers. With all of the inescapable talk about it in AARC it becomes common place.
I feel so badly for the family and friends of the victim, and of course for the life lost.
Sadly, the prison where "Andy" is going will probably be a much better place than AARC. We can only hope he is the smaller person in his cell.
