Idaho killings
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It looks like you replied to me above but I didn't see anything other than my quote.
Something to note on the sexual violence - I'll come back to apples to apples (woman co-ed vs man co-ed). The numbers DO get closer across the full gender group (non inclusive of age or other factors) though it is still higher against women and perpetrators against women are 90% male.
I am shooting from the hip here but I don't know that % of abuse of children is significantly different between genders (cursory search does show 1/4 girls vs 1/7 boys). Where it starts to fall apart is when you look at essentially adults, say the 16+ group (where it's no longer really pedophilia). If you are a 19 yr old woman at college, your risk for assault is something like 4x the general population. For a *straight* same aged man, your risk is much smaller. For men, the risk of sexual violence goes up significantly if you are gay and especially if you are transgender. It will again be higher if you are incarcerated. So if you are a man in one of these groups, your risk of sexual violence is going to be closer to that of the average woman's - higher if you are transgender. If you are not, your risk is significantly reduced.
Going back to @BCClone's original post about the roommate. Yes, absolutely the thought of sexual assault is likely to be high on her radar as her age/situation and gender make high risk. I don't know a woman - myself included - who isn't always aware of the exits, her phone, her car locks, keys in her fingers if she's out alone, noting who is walking behind them, especially at night. Hell, I debated opening the door to a salesman last week because my spouse wasn't home. I don't think straight adult men are often running that calculus in the background.
The calculus I run if an unannounced visitor comes to my door is if im going to bother putting pants on or if im just going to open it in my boxers.
You may be joking, but in a situation where a crime of opportunity can take place, having a dog is an unknown that will keep an assailant looking for a easier target.
He also kept the old “children’s educational book” door to door scam artist from even knocking on our door the week before Christmas
There is still a stigma of that. If a pre-pubescent boy gets molested, it’s embarrassing and doesn’t get reported due to that. If a 15 year old or older gets molested by an older woman they cover up the negativity by trying to brag about it and spin it to a positive. Therefore very few male assaults get reported.
I honestly have had my junk grabbed by several women back in my 20s. There was no way I was going to report something like that, whether done hitting on me or in anger. You just didn’t do that.
There is a stigma for all sexual assault victims although as that disgusting thread shows, it is somewhat different for young males. But there is a reason it’s so underreported and that’s because the victim is on trial. Also it is frequently pled down to spare the victim being on trial. Then the offender fights the department of corrections on whether they have to take sex offender treatment claiming it wasn’t a sex offense. Similar problems on whether they have to be on the registry. It is the rare crime with such crap associated with the victim that they can keep their identity protected in the media.
I just read a news story catching me up on all this. But I'm unclear how there was a witness in the house at 4:20 ish in the morning and no 911 call until nearly noon. I'm not suspicious or anything, just wondering why. Has that been addressed somewhere?
The witness saw someone in passing, but didn't know there was a murder until later.
A college house with 6 people living in it with frequent parties likely had people coming and going pretty regularly, and she probably thought 'that guy is weird' and closed her door, but in the moment jumping to something as unlikely as "that guy is a murderer" is less likely.
I've read a bit more since my earlier post. All accounts described her as having heard things that seemed strange but seeing nothing unusual when she opened her door, until the third time she opened it and saw a man in all black with a mask walking toward her. She is paralyzed with fear as he walks right past her. He leaves, she locks herself in her room.
It's not like I think she was in on it or anything, but what she was doing and how she stays silent for 7.5 hours seems like a pretty important gap that should be explained.
"No Body No Crime" would be a terrible Bob Marley cover song.
(Mandatory credit for that goes to the Small Town Murder podcast)
I’d be stunned if there’s anything new on a network TV special. There are two short episodes of the Reasonable Doubt podcast where Mark Geragos starts to lay out what the defense might look like, if you’re interested in hearing counters to the prosecution’s narrative.
I think Dateline has some victim family interviews that are original to Dateline. Maybe they have already given this info on other platforms… but I’ll still watch.
Did you go to college? Live in a party house like this one was?
Back then something could have woke me up, scared the **** out of me and 5 minutes later I am back sleeping for the next 6 hours.
We had a water pipe break on my dorm floor once, my neighbor had to come in my room (we didn't lock our doors) to wake me up because I was sleeping through the fire alarm and it was 10:30 am on a Sunday.
