High school football player, 18,brother, 20, charged with sexual assault of drunk boy who passed out

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36. This is

not so different from the Steubenville case before it caught on in big media. There had to be a massive public outcry before anything was done. By anything, I mean bare minimum. Only 2 football players charged. One of them is already back on the team.

The media were more concerned about the loss of the criminals future:

"These two young men who had such promising futures -- star football players, very good students -- literally watched as they believed their life fell apart," Harlow said. Crowley asked a CNN legal analyst, “What’s the lasting effect though on two young men being found guilty juvenile court of rape essentially?”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/poppy-harlow-cnn-steubenville-rape-coverage-criticism_n_2914853.html

Even though the victims are different sexes, the criminals have something in common. Star players for the local team, parents with clout in the local community. Police connections. Too many times we have seen this happen.

We even have a blame the victim mentality starting. You know...if he wasn't passed out drunk. SSDS. If *some* people can't or won't take rape seriously when the victim is a female, don't be shocked when they don't take rape seriously when the victim is a male and the male is treated the same as a woman would. You would think that Men's rights groups would get involved with a case such as this. Too bad they claim rape is nothing more than buyers remorse, victims are to blame because they had a drink, what do you expect men to do after they have been drinking and a woman shows up?

This is my favorite:

The National Post columnist asserted that the time has come to arrest and prosecute rape and assault victims for their wrongdoing, seeing this push as “long overdue.” Said Kay, “It’s about time we saw ‘having a cocktail and talking to the opposite sex’ for what it is – not just an open invitation for men to act on their natural urges but as an aggressive act that coerces men into committing crimes. If that isn’t illegal, I don’t know what legality means.”

http://www.newslo.com/mens-rights/

There's something fishy going on in Homer Alaska and it isn't confined to Daddy's fishing boats.