Dr. Laura gives out what she calls the stinky awards to organizations and people that she feels are against the best interest of families. I have a few stinky awards I want to give out as well. One of them is to the football players of glen ridge high school that raped and sodomized a 17 year old mentally impaired girl in 1988 and 1. said that she wanted and asked for it and 2. barely got punished for the crime. I also want to give another stinky award to the townspeople, pastors and coaches who supported these monsters and refused to believe this young woman. I caught the tail end of the movie Outrage in Glen Ridge and was appalled.
I don't care what people think, a person with an IQ of 62 cannot, I repeat, cannot, give consent. This girl didn't even really know what was happening to her. She had the intelligence of an 8 year old. She had known these boys her whole life and thought they were her friends. They did horrible things to her, and most of them got off scot free. I think a couple had to serve a few years in prison. None of them had to register as sex offenders or anything. This angers me. In my opinion, these monsters need to spend the rest of their lives in prison, after they are castrated without anesthesia.
Do we have a law to protect the mentally disabled (I am including those who are mentally retarted and who struggle with mental illness in the same group for simplicity sake)? I know that we have a law to protect children and teenagers. An 18 year old can go to jail for having sex with a 15 year old, even if the 15 year old asked for it. My 21 year old cousin is in prison on rape charges because he had sex with a 15 year old girl when he was 19. This girl flung herself at my cousin and pursued him like a mad dog in heat. And, like the idiot he was, he had sex with her. The girl's mom turned my cousin in, and now he's taking the heat for it. He will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life once he serves his time. Now, I'm not saying what my cousin did was right at all. He needs to have the crap beat out of him for being so stupid. But if my cousin had said in his trial "that slut wanted it. She begged for it", the judge would have laughed in his face. But that's what these hooligans fron Glen Ridge said. She wanted it, she begged for it? She was also mentally disabled with the intelligence of a second grader. It doesn't matter if she wanted it or not. She was impaired, and therefore couldn't give consent.