Florida Rape Victim Jailed, Denied Emergency Contraception
I don't even know where to start with this one.
TAMPA - A young woman was walking back to her car after the Gasparilla parade on Saturday when she says a man dragged her behind a building and raped her near the intersection of Howard and Swann.
She managed to get away and called 911. Police took her to the hospital and began a routine rape investigation.
When they started checking the victim's background, they discovered she had an arrest warrant out for her.
It was from an arrest when the woman was a juvenile and she was accused of not paying restitution. The woman says she was not aware there was a warrant out for her, and her attorney says it appears to be a paperwork error.
Oh, but it gets worse... the rape victim was denied EC because the jail medical supervisor wouldn't dispenese it because of her religious beliefs.
"The medical supervisor would not allow her to take the pill because she said it was against her, the supervisor's, religion. So, here we have a medical supervisor imposing her beliefs on a rape victim," claimed the victim's attorney Virlyn Moore. "As a human being, how someone could be so violated by this monster and then the system comes along and rapes her again psychologically and emotionally - it's outrageous and unconscionable."
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE OMG?!?!?
I... I just... NO. You do NOT get to deny EC to a goddamned RAPE VICTIM, I don't care what your religious beliefs say. That is so wrong on so many levels.
Don't even get me started on the whole hauling a rape victim off to jail bit, because I'm seeing red on that one too.
TAMPA - A young woman was walking back to her car after the Gasparilla parade on Saturday when she says a man dragged her behind a building and raped her near the intersection of Howard and Swann.
She managed to get away and called 911. Police took her to the hospital and began a routine rape investigation.
When they started checking the victim's background, they discovered she had an arrest warrant out for her.
It was from an arrest when the woman was a juvenile and she was accused of not paying restitution. The woman says she was not aware there was a warrant out for her, and her attorney says it appears to be a paperwork error.
Oh, but it gets worse... the rape victim was denied EC because the jail medical supervisor wouldn't dispenese it because of her religious beliefs.
"The medical supervisor would not allow her to take the pill because she said it was against her, the supervisor's, religion. So, here we have a medical supervisor imposing her beliefs on a rape victim," claimed the victim's attorney Virlyn Moore. "As a human being, how someone could be so violated by this monster and then the system comes along and rapes her again psychologically and emotionally - it's outrageous and unconscionable."
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE OMG?!?!?
I... I just... NO. You do NOT get to deny EC to a goddamned RAPE VICTIM, I don't care what your religious beliefs say. That is so wrong on so many levels.
Don't even get me started on the whole hauling a rape victim off to jail bit, because I'm seeing red on that one too.