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@EvaWi @NHCADSV @ConcordPolice @SurvJustice @NH_DOJ - if you started by believing Chessy Prout, then you would have believed her when she said to her sister & Concord PD recorded it down "I have never said he raped me". Instead you trained her.
@EvaWi @NHCADSV @ConcordPolice @SurvJustice @NH_DOJ - if you started by believing Chessy Prout, then you would have believed her when she said to her sister & Concord PD recorded it down "I have never said he raped me". Instead you trained her.
You trained her to say what you wanted her to say so that you could prosecute Owen Labrie. You didn't want it to go to trial. You wanted Owen Labrie to plead guilty to something you knew he had not done and that you could not prove that he had done.
And your goal once you had done that was to use the framing of the scholarship student Owen Labrie to install a "compliance officer" at St Paul's School, to get a contract for the NHCADSV, to get the school to use both "Bystander Intervention" Training & maxient.com
Responding to Victim Blaming So You Don’t Have To: A PowerPoint I Made While Angry
(I’m primarily angry about reactions to AOC sharing her experiences of trauma, but also we do this all the time to anyone who talks about any kind of abuse, hence the PowerPoint)
(I’m primarily angry about reactions to AOC sharing her experiences of trauma, but also we do this all the time to anyone who talks about any kind of abuse, hence the PowerPoint)
Victim blaming is an understandable impulse if you want to believe the world is Just and you are Safe, but it hurts survivors and holds society back from addressing the underlying causes of violence
“Stranger Danger” myths lead to victim blaming
Most sexual violence is perpetrated by someone known to the victim, which is a scary thought
Most sexual violence is perpetrated by someone known to the victim, which is a scary thought
