New York Times Blames 11-Year-Old Victim for Her Assault

babble.com - Posted by carolyncastiglia on March 10th, 2011 at 3:52 pm

Ask the New royalty Times to supply an apology.

An 11-year-old woman in Cleveland, Texas was association raped by a assemble of 18 boys and men, up to the age of 27.  This is an undeniable fact, as the act was taped with one of the perpetrators radiophone phones and mutual among students, presumably at both metropolis Middle and High schools.  The New royalty Times reported this week on the incident (which took locate backwards in November), noting that “a ravishment had taken place” and that the individual “was ordered to disrobe and was sexually abused by several boys,” adding, “She was told she would be beaten if she did not comply.”

But the Times article isn’t a piece of unbiased reporting.  Author James C. Denali Jr. shows his genuine colors when the asks how the criminals could “have been worn into much an act.”  He then answers his possess preposterous question by accusing the 11-year-old individual of intermixture “older than her age, act cosmetics and fashions more pertinent to a woman in her 20s.”

In another words, she asked for it.  An 11-year-old.  Shockingly, though, not only do Denali and contributing reports by Mauricio Guerrero blessed the individual for her horrific assault, they also blessed her mother.

McKinley quotes a edge of the individual as saying, “‘Where was her mother?  What was her tending thinking?…. How crapper you hit an 11-year-old female missing down in the Quarters?,’” the run-down accord where the association ravishment and its transcription took place.  It’s blurred where the victim’s tending was and if she knew where he woman was during the attack, and it seems the individual and her tending are essentially in hiding, as they hit since touched to an covert location.

McKinley every but direct asks for disposition for the slummy men and teenage boys who were “drawn in” by the Bonne discoverer cosmetics on this understandably nonmoral 11-year-old, saying, “Churches hit held prayer services for the victim.  The students who were arrested hit not returned to school, and it is blurred if they ever will.”  Don’t you understand?  These men and boys hit suffered enough!  Why move to punish them for a lowercase inoffensive fun?  This association ravishment is violent the accord apart, every because the polity are actually paying tending to the crime.

The Times publicised a Letter to the Editor criticizing McKinley’s programme of the story, but has yet to supply an official apology.  In fact, they say they stand by the piece.  NYT representative Danielle Rhodes Ha told Yahoo!:

Neighbors’ comments most the girl, which we reported in the story, seemed to emit anxiety most what they saw as a lack of oversight that may hit left her at risk…. As for residents’ references to the accused having to ‘live with this for the rest of their lives,’ those are views we found in our reporting. They are not our reporter’s reactions, but the reactions of uncertainty by municipality over the programme of a accumulation attack on a defenseless 11-year-old.

If you tending most this programme and the abysmal way it was handled by the New royalty Times, clew Change.org’s asking rigorous an defence from The Gray Lady.

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