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Opinion: Victim Blaming: An All-Too-Common Response to Sexual Assault from Huffington Post, 4/22/11

Monday, April 25, 2011


The article reports, “By now, most of us are familiar with the story of the 11-year-old girl who was raped by 19 young men. The story gets worse: this little girl, who was gang-raped, has become the target of victim blaming. A TV anchor quoted one of the rapists, who defended himself by saying, ‘She looked older than 11.'”

Read the full article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hayley-rose-horzepa/victim-blaming_b_847310.html