Nathan Brown's Case Against Rape

On July 29, 1984 Jennifer Thompson, a white woman was brutally raped by a black male with a knife to her throat. The black male broke into her apartment while she was asleep. Jennifer Thompson woke up to the stranger when he had begun to attack her. When she first saw her attacker, she offered to give him her car and money, but he declined that’s when she realized he wasn’t there to rob her but to rape her. During the time Jennifer Thompson was being raped, she tried to remember the characteristics of the black male so that later she could identify him to the police. Jennifer Thompson was able to escape out of the back the door of her apartment and she ran to her neighbors home which they called the police. That same night the black male raped

In Missouri during 1993, Christopher Simmons, a 17-year old, committed capital murder after he instigated two other juveniles (Benjamin and Tessmer) to conspire to kidnap and murder an innocent woman named Shirley Crook. It was never completely determined why exactly Simmons wished to murder Crook, however, he did later admit that Crook was involved in a previous car accident with Simmons. At approximately 2 a.m. on the night of the murder, Simmons and his two friends met up to break into the home of Crook, but Tessmer left before Simmons and Benjamin decided to go through with the heinous crime. Simmons and Benjamin broke into the home of Crook, entered her room, covered her eyes and mouth using duct tape, and bound her hands together. The

There are several factors to consider when examining the situation of publishing the Rolling Stone UVA rape story. The three theories used to examine more closely the ethical decision the editor had when publishing the story are Kantian perspective, virtue ethics and the Utilitarianism approach, as well as the pros and cons of the situation.

In 2006 (Chicago), An 21 year old lady was arrested for erratic behavior at the airport. The commander instructed the officers to take Christina Eilman to the hospital where she can have a psychiatric evaluation. The officers instead took her to jail where she was release the following day into one of the cities highest crime area. Christina wander into a high-rise of the Robert Taylor homes where she was rape and thrown from the seventh floor window. Christina suffered from severe brain injury, shattered pelvis and collapse lung. The injuries have left Christina mentally impaired for the rest of her life.

The central issue of the Duke rape case includes Duke University student, Crystal Mangum, as the accuser of several Duke University lacrosse players of having committed sexual assault during a party that the players held in their house, which allegedly followed a stripping job Crystal Mangum performed for the players. After the allegation, a sexual assault kit was conducted and processed. Following the processing, it was found that none of the Duke University lacrosse players’ DNA was found in the sexual assault test kit. However, multiple other men’s DNA was found in the sexual assault test kit. With this knowledge, Durham District Attorney, Mike Nifong, continued to pursue the case, ignoring the results of the DNA sexual assault kit.

On May 2nd, 1991 two young ladies in their Weston-Salem, North Carolina home was attacked by a man. The man raped both girls and had a knife to them the whole time. The suspect tied their hands and feet together and was in the home for over an hour before leaving. In many

There were groups that were assaulted in 2012 from multiple located in California New Orleans, Chicago, and New Delhi which Solnit utilizes to depict the severity of gang rape and how terrible the violence of these assaults. Solnit has provided us a very well document and compelling argument that sexual violence against women is all too common. Additionally, Solnit provides options on how to review these incidents as she states, “If you’d rather talk about bus rapes than gang rapes” (Solnit 523).

On June first, a single black man named Joe James jumped off a freight train entering springfield, and began a streak of partying. He had been arrested soon after, and was sentenced for 50 days in the jail, but was allowed to run errands while on parole. WHile on parole on June 3rd, he left and didn’t come back. While drunk, he had entered Clergy Ballard’s house the night before, and had slashed the neck of Clergy after attempting to sexually assault his daughter. The next day, after waking up on a park bench, multiple of Clergy’s relatives and neighbors ganged up on James and beat him senseless until police arrived to arrest James. They hauled him off to the town jail until shipped off to a court case.

The name of my prisoner is Marshall Perkins, he is 59 years old. Marshall Perkins was born on March 2, 1886 in Higginsville, Lafayette County. He was arrested by Kansas City Police Department, under charge of investigation for statutory rape. He was charged by the Sheriff’s Office in Jackson County, Kansas City with statutory rape and habitual criminal act. Convicted of raping a young white female, about 13 years of age, girl (Gladys Jeffries) was returning home around 11 p.m. after seeing a show at Vista Theater, Kansas City with another female (friend).

As a result, Brock Turner was sentenced to six months for his actions. He was also a hopeful Olympic swimmer and was banned from competing in USA Swimming competitions. Many in the country were furious that Turner was only sentenced to six months, believing that he deserved a more appropriate sentence. On the other hand, Turner’s father was upset that his son’s life was ruined by “20 minutes of action” while under the influence of alcohol. Despite the victim arguing for an appropriate legal prosecution and justice for the pain she suffered, the Supreme Court judge assigned to the case, Aaron Persky, stated, “a prison sentence would severe impact on him. I think he will not be a danger to others (Stack). Turner was even released early from

The Steubenville and Glen Ridge rape cases are two very similar cases. The perpetrators were football student athletes with promising futures and the victims were teenage girls whose capability of consenting to the acts done to them were questioned. One of the victims was seventeen-years old and had an intelligence quotient of 64 and the reading comprehension of a second grader. The second victim was sixteen-years old and was publicly assaulted while she was completely intoxicated. This paper will discuss each victim and their perpetrators, as well as the trial sentencing and prosecution. It will explore the different reactions from the community and the debate over the victim’s responsibility leading towards the incident. In both rape

America stands by traditional notions where rape culture is the norm and revolves around society. In particular, when a woman is raped, their actions prior to the incident are usually accounted for their fate of being sexually assaulted. Lately in America, there has been a controversy over women being victim blamed by legal authority in rape cases. These women are slut shammed for allegedly “asking for it” by being intoxicated and having the intention to “have fun”. Because of these accusations of allegedly seeking to engage sexually, rape victims are blamed for initiating the sexual act. An ongoing controversial rape case is the Stanford rape trial of Brock Turner, where the victim was sexually assaulted while unconscious near a dumpster. Turner was convicted for sexual assault, however was only incarcerated for three months. This has recently caused uproar due to justice and retribution not being equally served. The incident occurred near a university campus party; where alcohol was involved and memory loss was present. In addition, she was rushed to the hospital as a rape victim and was examined. Despite complying to use a rape kit and be evaluated, the victim’s accountability is undermined by the leniency of treatment in rape charges. When examining linguistic features of both parties’ written statements, several factors can be analyzed such as each participant’s stance and the credibility of their accounts. In addition, when dissecting a victim’s written account,

“In Florida, women who seek to put their babies up for adoption but can’t name the fathers are forced to wear a kind of scarlet letter: The state legislature has decreed that they must take out newspaper ads listing their full name; their height, weight and coloring; the names or descriptions of every possible father; and the dates and places of every sexual encounter that might have produced the child.” This passage from the text seems absolutely crazy to me. I can understand why the state is trying to find the father of the baby, however, why does it have to be in this manner? In the article, I read that a 12-year-old rape victim and a woman who was gang-raped were both forced to undergo this process, which is by all means unconstitutional.

You're walking around campus, all of a sudden you’re pushed to the ground, you're then raped for the first time. You get back up and walk a few more feet, petrified, dazed, and confused, then your face hits a cold metal fence and your pants end up around your ankles and you get raped one more time. That horrendous story was how a night in January went for a Baylor University Freshman. She was on her way back to a party when a Baylor Football player decided to have his way with her and rape her not once, but twice. She was taken to the local hospital where she identified her attacker as Tevin Elliot, a Baylor Football player. He was released from the team and expelled from the University. The victim went to the health center and the security

Nate Parker may have had some form of privilege from being an athlete and also a recognizable figure in America. But that should not dismiss that the woman was assaulted when she was unconscious, as well as victim blamed due to the rape culture that we have now. I also agree that our universities do not bring attention to the issues to sexual assault cases just as much as our society does not put the equal emphasis of interracial assaults and same-race assaults.