On 2004-04-27 22:55:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Sworn testimonies, if any of them are, won't wash either. I'd be more interested in convictions in a court of law. Anyone can say anything in a sworn testimony. Hell, "sworn" testimonies from certain individuals have changed to fit the allegations many times. Show me where WWASP has EVER been found guilty? What the hell is your purpose for posting here all of a sudden. AND all of a sudden you are an expert? "
It was nothing to do with a Program, but I was raped, a long time ago.
I never reported it because the abusive sick f*ck was someone I was in a long-term relationship with, and I was afraid for my life to leave that relationship. There isn't a lot of help out there for abused teenagers when the abuser is smart enough not to leave marks, and the parents of the abusee are so in lala land that they wouldn't understand the very real threat to the teen's life.
Also, I was mentally ill and insufficiently medicated. Look at what Kobe Bryant's accuser has suffered---people cite her being mentally ill as a reason she *must* not be telling the truth (there are other problems with that case, okay, but still)--it's as if in our society, if you have a mental illness, hey, it's okay to rape you.
Anyway, I never reported it, much less doing a sworn deposition or getting the guy convicted in a court of law.
But he's *still* a rapist because he raped me.
Most other women I know who were raped never reported it, either. They knew the rapist had done a good enough job of planning the crime that there wouldn't be enough proof to get a conviction.
Most child abuse is never reported, either.
I have *no* difficulty believing that when these places abuse kids, they're adept enough at covering their crime to avoid conviction, and in almost all cases to avoid there being even enough proof to lay charges.
They control the crime scene. And all their victims are discredited in advance, merely by being in their hands in the first place.
You sound like someone who has a personal stake in defending these programs.
I'm not buying it. And the more smoke there is, the less people in the outside world buy you guys' story that there's no fire.