I was threatened with rape today, NSFW

[justiceischeap]

138. For BainsBane and the Admins

I know tons of folks have been sending you information but I thought I'd post this here as well so others know how serious this is:

Use of the internet to threaten “the person of another” constitutes a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 ( interstate communication of threat to injure) If it is communicated interstate, federal jurisdiction is created.

Please see the statute at the following link:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/875.html

To constitute "a communication containing a threat" under Section 875(c), a communication must be such that a reasonable person (1) would take the statement as a serious expression of an intention to inflict bodily harm (the mens rea), and (2) would perceive such expression as being communicated to effect some change or achieve some goal through intimidation (the actus reus). A message is a "threat" if a reasonable recipient would tend to believe that the originator of the message was serious about his words and intended to effect the violence or other harm forewarned, regardless of the speaker's actual motive for issuing the communication.

Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person with the specific intent that the statement made verbally in writing or by means of an electronic communication device is to be taken as a threat even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out which on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal unconditional immediate and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family's safety.

It is not necessary for the victim to actually be placed in fear of imminent serious bodily injury or for the accused to have the capability or the intention to actually carry out the threat. The offense is completed if the accused, by his threat, sought as a desired reaction, to place a person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury.

http://answers.uslegal.com/criminal/16784/

What TD did IS a crime and the fact that the Admins insist that his being banned is sufficient is, IMO, criminal in and of itself. They should be willingly and proactively working with BB to make sure this person is handled in a legal manner... not just under "community standards." EarlG, Skinner and Elad may not take this seriously and see it as trolling internet behavior but, I'll repeat, THIS IS A CRIME and they're letting the perpetrator get away with it by not being proactive.

If the Admins won't post a policy to try and curb this behavior, the least they can do is reach out to LEO's and have this investigated. 'Cause let me tell you this much, if this happened to me and, goodness forbid, the Internet situation turned into a real life situation, I'd sue this site for everything they had for turning a blind eye--I may not win but I'd make them understand financially how egregious they've been with their lack of attention to this matter. And if that statement gets me banned, so be it. When EarlG commented the way he did to Boston Bean and basically blamed her for giving the guy more attention, my blood boiled. If this was happening to one of their female family members on a constant basis, I think their attitude (or at least I hope their attitudes) would be different.