Monday, October 26, 2009
A brutal homecoming story!
Acorrding to police last weekened was one of the biggest rapes that happened in Richmond. She was 15 years old and assulted outside of her school in Richmond by seven men who did not even attened the school. It was around ten o clock and she was leaving. About a hour later neighbors who could see the campus called the police and only cought a 19 year old suspect! The rest left! The sadest part about this is that many people walked past this incident and neither came to a conclusion to call the police. She is now being hospitalized. This is disgusting and dissapointing. How can people be so low and think of hurting a young innocent child! All she wanted to do was go to her first homecoming and it latered turned into a night in the hopital. I dont know but i believe this is a sickening story..what do you think? The video is on the link just hit the title!
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Seven guys? Ouch.
"It was around ten o clock and she was leaving. About a hour later neighbors who could see the campus called the police and only cought a 19 year old suspect!"
I'm assuming this happened at ten at night. If I'm right, then this is more proof that people should not walk alone down the street at night.
this is a really disturbing story.
This story is horrifying. I cannot believe people would do such a thing. Worst, I cannot believe anyone can just walk past this incident as it was happening and not do anything about it.
Things like these make me sad. I truly want to believe that people are inherently good inside, but stories like these prove otherwise. How could seven men be so rotten and not see the evil that they are doing? I like how the neighbors call an hour later. And her first homecoming was when she was 15?
This story is pretty upsetting! I mean, who in the right mind would not do anything when they strangers harassing a teenage girl?!
It's a harsh story but perhaps she shouldn't be walking around at night. I know she didn't ask for it but she could have prevented this from happening as well. If you live in such a place as Richmond and it's dark at night, you'd assume you have to be smart and check your surroundings.
What's even worse is that people saw what was going and didn't do anything. Majority don't want to get tangled into people's business but it is someone's responsibility to at least call the police if they see something they don't think is right.
Well here we have another wake up call that even in the U.S., our world is not as safe as we would like to believe it is. In this situation it was a poor vulnerable fifteen year old girl, but just recently a football player was stabbed, and killed, on his own college campus. It just makes you think that it can really happen to anyone.
According to CNN, the girl was raped not only by several guys, but was raped for TWO AND A HALF HOUR.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/27/california.gang.rape.investigation/index.html
Anyone who does that should get the chair. But then again, I'm being too outspoken, my apologies.
This is truly a travesty. The worst part in my eyes besides the actual crime was how the witnesses did NOTHING to stop or prevent the situation from happening. It makes me feel like no one is a hero these days who will actually do something about injustice. I'm not talking about someone dressing like batman but most people should be abhorred by rape so shouldn't they want to do something about it when they get the chance?
This may sound kind of negative, but i can totally believe that people saw what was happening and chose to ignore it. I think it is sad that poor girl was raped, but be honest,if you were there while that girl was being raped would you be able to muster up the courage to stop seven men. Some of you may say that you would have tried to stop them, but in reality, you have no idea what you would do.
This incident reminds me of the woman who got raped and killed in front of four apartments full of people pulling up their blinds. She got suffocated. The man even knocked her out, went away for a while and came back to do it again. No one stopped it. This happened I believe thirty years ago. Nevertheless it prompted universities such as Stanford to explain to the public why no one even thought to call the police.
Obviously people think that other people will take the responsibility and call the police; but its because of this mentality that things like this pursue and the persecutors get away with it.
From the AP
"The victim, a sophomore, had left the dance and was drinking alcohol in a school courtyard with a group when she was attacked"
She wasn't walking alone at night. She was ON campus when she was attacked.
-Francis Wang
If she was on campus then that's worse. This could mean that more people witnessed this incident than we first intended. The group that she was with could have prevented it or done something to help.
And she shouldn't really be drinking in the first place. If she isn't fully sober, she won't even be able to defend herself. True, she would never have wanted this to happen anyway.
This situation makes you think that this can happen to anyone of us.
Francis, school dances usually happen at night. Rapes like these don't happen in broad daylight.
"The worst part in my eyes besides the actual crime was how the witnesses did NOTHING to stop or prevent the situation from happening. It makes me feel like no one is a hero these days who will actually do something about injustice."
Seth, it is far more complicated than you initially thought.
For people like me, there is little reason for helping out.
I'm an outsider at this school and just about everywhere I go, including home. There's always contempt, bitterness, and resentment towards me; nothing I do seems to change those attitudes - including helping others. I often get "I wasn't asking you" kind of response when I take the initiative to help. I would be glad to have a conversation of understanding, but that doesn't happen for a variety of reasons.
Given these circumstance, why should I help people who resent me? I'm simply treating people the same way I have been treated - which is by way of separation. One would figure out a lot about just by thinking about that question and the circumstances that surround me.
I'm not looking for pity, but I think it is wrong for a person to ask for help from a person he/she resented.
Kevin your reason for helping should not be because she either favors or doesn't resent you.. if I am reading correctly it says you would not help because people in the past have resented you.I think that no matter what you've experienced in the past you should at least call the cops to attempt to help . I don't know whether I would or would not call the cops, all I know is that your reason for not helping should not be because people in the past have given you the "'I wasn't asking you" kind of response'"
Hopefully I didn't screw up my original point
To be honest, if I saw this happening at night, I would not try to get in the middle of this. Especially if it's seven grown men and I'm by myself. I would call the police though because it is the right thing to do.
"if I am reading correctly it says you would not help because people in the past have resented you."
That would probably include her. If I had met her, no doubt she would develop contempt for me. People are generally the same throughout, and I think she is no exception.
"I think that no matter what you've experienced in the past you should at least call the cops to attempt to help ."
How about in the present?
"That would probably include her. If I had met her, no doubt she would develop contempt for me. People are generally the same throughout, and I think she is no exception."
Way to just judge someone you don't know. Despite what you might think, not everyone is the same.
Well you have to think about to options Kevin..
Even if you knew that person who was being attacked by 7 people, would you still have the guts to go out there and confront them?
You would have no idea what they would have been carrying, and they would easily over power any single person.
The best option would probably to call the police or a group of higher authorities to help fix the situation.
Kevin, you're basically saying that you wouldn't help someone in a dire situation simply because you ASSUME that they don't like you (or wouldn't, if they don't know you already).
Why should you help them even if they resent you? Because it's actions such as those that will end that resentment (which, might I add, probably only exists (not that it does), because of such cynical ideologies in the first place). And even if for some odd reason they did resent you and continue to resent you reasons unspecified, allowing such acts to occur unhindered is just as bad as being the one committing them.
(Hurray for parenthesis within parenthesis.)
Yeah, I agree. Dang, this is getting into a way personal direction, but I can't really persuade you, Kevin, into changing your mindset. However, I do think that in a dire situation like that, I would call the police (probably after making sure the guys committing the rape aren't trying to kill me as well for "snitching). Perhaps, the witnesses wanted to help but something like fear stopped them. It is hard to imagine people, who I'm assuming were taught in kindergarten to help others and share, to just stand there and watch a fellow human being get tortured. Then again, this is based on assumption, and on the other hand, on a show I watched called "Caught on Camera" on Spike, there was a guy who was having a seizure and another bystander just pick-pocketed the seizure dude. Some pretty shady things happening around here...
-Henry Zhang
"Way to just judge someone you don't know. Despite what you might think, not everyone is the same."
People who don't me well or talk to me rarely do resent me; it happens at this school. It's due to gossiping and rumors. And when this happens, contempt for me is homogenized. So saying that people resent me even before I meet them is quite true.
"Because it's actions such as those that will end that resentment"
I do help on occasions, but people either don't care or they say "I didn't ask you". I really wish I could dispell this resentment and end the bitter divide.
" because of such cynical ideologies in the first place)."
These ideologies didn't pop up overnight. They appeared because it happens commonly in many places for years.
"And even if for some odd reason they did resent you and continue to resent you reasons unspecified, allowing such acts to occur unhindered is just as bad as being the one committing them."
If people didn't want anything having to do with me, then wouldn't helping them constitute as harassment and the such?
"Dang, this is getting into a way personal direction, but I can't really persuade you, Kevin, into changing your mindset."
I don't mind this getting into a personal level because this explains a lot about me.
If there is anything you must know it is this:
I act the way I do because of the bitter divide between me and the world. I would be glad to open up if this divide ends. But I don't understand why there is so much contempt for me in the first place.
If there was no bitter divide, and I was on the scene of the rape, I would call 911. It's at night at a dance; no one will even notice that I'm calling the police. If the guards at the dance failed to notice 10 guys raping a girl, then it is unlikely that anyone would notice me calling the cops.
"People who don't me well or talk to me rarely do resent me; it happens at this school. It's due to gossiping and rumors. And when this happens, contempt for me is homogenized. So saying that people resent me even before I meet them is quite true."
It's high school. People are incredibly immature at this school. That's just something you shouldn't let bother you and cloud your judgement on other people. Say hypothetically that this girl got raped and killed. You saw this happening and you did nothing about it because you assume she already hates you before knowing you. Can you live with the fact that she died just because you think the world is out to get you?
That was a really good point, Alexandra.
But, you'd be surprised though from what I was able to surmise - that even the handful of mature people at this school resent me even though I hardly, if ever, talked to them. I tested people and figured that out, but I still don't know why.
Even so, there still must be a point where I must take a stand and show that I resent being resented. What better opportunity than to give the person a silent treatment when he/she needs help most?
I would help if I wasn't so resented.
I foresee my potential demise in the future if I do not establish close contacts. So, I must find a way to reverse this contempt.
I can live with the fact that she died because she is not part of my world, nor is anyone else at the moment. To me, everyone is an outsider, and I'm an outsider to them. If there wasn't any resentment nor bitter divide, then I would NOT be able to live with her death attributed to my lack of action.
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