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Originally Posted by Lateralus
Exactly. I agree, tore. There was a recent, awful rape/murder case in Melbourne, Australia recently involving a 29 year old Irish woman living here, Jill Meagher. She was walking home, alone, from a pub in the wee hours of the morning when she was dragged into an alleyway, raped and murdered.
As always, when there is a rape case, there were a variety of comments floating around about how it was her fault that she had decided to walk home alone, that it was her fault because she was probably intoxicated and not thinking straight, I remember even hearing that it was her fault because she was wearing high heels and makeup or something (what the?). I agree that it probably wasn't the best idea to walk home alone at night while intoxicated. However, that does NOT under any circumstances mean that she holds any bit of fault to being raped and murdered. She was not "asking for it." |
It's very important to point out that the man who raped her, Adrian Ernest Bayley, was out on bail and parole and had a number of rape convictions to his name. In this case she was certainly not to blame no matter what state she was in and how she was dressed as this was a man who was a menace to women and who should not have been out roaming the streets in the first place.