This Rape Victim Needs Your Help and the NAACP Needs a Smackdown

Al Sharpton has finally taken the first leap into “what the hell??” land and he’s taken the NAACP with him. He is in Florida protesting that several men are being held without bond for a brutal rape and assault of a young woman and her child.

Here are the details in brief. This paragraph skirts on the graphic, so if you’re sensitive to that sort of thing, skip over it and move onto the next paragraph. Ten men broke into the home of a woman and her son and proceeded over the course of three hours to gang rape her and beat and cut her and her son. At one point the men forced her at gunpoint to perform a sexual act on her son, who is 12 years old. After the three hours, they put both victims in the bathtub where they used household cleaning supplies to cover up their crime. They violated the woman with a bar of soap, blinded the boy with fingernail polish remover, and attempted to light them on fire. The only thing that stopped them was a lack of matches. The whole time they took pictures of the rape and assault with cell phones for their later amusement. The woman was forced to walk with her son a mile to the hospital because the men stole her car and threatened to kill her if she called the police. By the by, her neighbors heard her screams but didn’t call the police. Nice neighbors, those.

The story gets worse. That is below the jump.

Four of the men (who are under 18 but are being charged as adults and, so far as I’m concerned, if you perform a man’s crime, you do a man’s time) are under arrest and are being held without bail. Now, earlier, five men were arrested for gang-raping two girls in nearby Boca Raton. The incident occurred at a party where all the participants were drunk and one of the defendants claims that one of the girls asked her for sex. The prosecutors amended the charges to obviate that defense. Those boys were released on bond.

Sharpton is there because he believes that the two incidents were “the same set of circumstances”. The NAACP is there for the same reason. It ought to be obvious to anyone with a working brain stem or who isn’t consumed with a particular deluded mania that they are not. According to Dr. Renita Weems, one of the folks leading the charge on the internet, the NAACP was deluged with requests to help the woman and they refused because it was “outside the scope of their mission”. Now, the group has sent its lawyers to help the men in their legal defense.

That, folks, is unconscionable. This is not an issue of race nor of gender. This is an issue of basic decency. Al Sharpton is not there because he is a decent man. He is there because he wants the face time in front of the media. He’s there to promote Al Sharpton. It’s time that stopped. it’s time that we all stopped listening to the hustlers and the grievance-mongers and the people who are more wrapped up in playing silly identity games than they are with making sure a woman and her child get justice for the horrible crimes committed against them.

This victim deserves much better than she’s gotten. If you hit Dr. Weems’ link and can help at all, please do so. This is important.

Thanks to my commenter Jewells for bringing this blog post to my attention.

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