Family disowns juvenile rape victim
Prosecutor: Juvenile sexual assault is ‘heartrending’:
I’m sure you’ve all heard this one. As usual I’m a little behind.
Anyway in Phoenix, Arizona it’s alleged that four juvenile boys raped an 8-year-old girl. If that wasn’t bad enough the girl’s family disowned her for being raped claiming she brought shame upon their family. Now remember, this isn’t a story from Saudi Arabia or some other repressive country. It’s from Phoenix freakin’ Arizona.
Now in this post I’ll just be focusing on the family’s reaction. For other aspects of the story I’ll be discussing that art Crime Ne.ws.
To make matters worse the girl was allegedly being babysat by her 23-year-old older sister. Not only does the sister blame the girl but she want’s the girls rapists released.
The sister, who was not identified by name by the station, expressed mixed feelings about her sister’s attack. “I came to her and said it’s not good for you to be following guys because you are still little,” the sister told KTVK. She also said that she wanted the suspects to be released from jail because “we are the same people.”
“When she comes back I’m going to tell her don’t ever do that again because all of us, we are the same family, we are from the same place. Now she is just bringing confusion among us. Now the other people, they don’t want to see her,” the sister told KTVK.
All parties involved are Liberian. But guess what. You’re not in freakin’ Liberia anymore. This is the good ol’ U.S. of A where we don’t tolerate people who shun rape victims especially 8-year-olds.
A Liberian ambassador said however that in Liberia police would be embracing the victim and not the attackers like in some countries.
No charges have been filed against the family but if it were up to me they’d be charged with child abandonment at the very least.
h/t to Crime, Interrupted
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July 26th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Oh. My. Lord.
May heaven help this child, and may hell be stoking the fires in anticipation of her family’s arrival even as I write this.
How could they!?!? That’s no family – it’s a bunch of animals trying to pass themselves off as human. But the sister was probably speaking the truth when she said to the media,
“we are the same people.”
No shit! They certainly are! Monsters – the whole lot of them.
July 26th, 2009 at 9:50 am
i completely agree with everything Angel said, except for a thing or two.
personally, i think the sister needs killed and sent to those fires of hell ASAP. and the parents should have to spend time in Sheriff Joe’s custody. he’d have a field day with them.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Just because they live in this country doesn’t mean they have let go of years of programming from their native home. Women and children (especially girls) are unimportant in Liberia. They are objects to be possessed by men. The women are taught from a young age that they have no rights, they have no voice, they are nothing except what men make them. And, if men rape them, well… somehow that’s the female’s fault and she is the one bringing shame… not the men who bound her and did what they wanted to her against her cries and pleading.
I’m so grateful not to have EVER had to grow up in a situation like that. Send me the girl. I’ll take her with arms wide open and show her that SHE truly does have worth… and a voice… and a purpose. I’ll show her that she is a person of value, not an object of possession.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Oh my god, this is awful. Those boys are animals . And the family is blaming her.
I don’t normally say that people will be in my prayers but this little girl is. I would take her home in a heartbeat too. Poor, poor thing.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Sheriff Joe……good call. And make sure to tell the other inmates that the parents think that when someone is raped IT IS THEIR OWN DAMNED FAULT!!! Then let the prisoners at them.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
That poor little girl would be better off without her “family”. There’s a special place in Hell for each member one of them! I too would open my arms and my home to that special little girl and show her what a family really is! I hope some good will come out of this sick and twisted story!
July 27th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Disgusting. All I have to say!
July 27th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
This is a messed up situation. You’ll never change the feelings of the family, which is a shame. If this sister was a babysitter then why wasn’t she watching the little girl? Wasn’t she lured away by the boys? Even the spokesperson for Liberia said that this family’s way of thinking is wrong. So what is going on here? I agree, this is the USA. I hope we throw the book at the rapists AND the family.
July 27th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Aren’t the rapists only 9 and 10 themselves? wtf have they seen to make them think that this is okay? I get that its custom in liberia for it to be the girls fault, but its america and she is freakin 8!!!!! kids need to be nurtured if you want them to grow up responisble and well adjusted, not thrown to the dogs. Kill em all
July 27th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
in families with this attitude towards the victim….i wonder what the suicide rate among women and young girls is?
July 27th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
That is so incredibly sad. I think charges should be filed… emotional abuse or abandonment, at the very least. To teach a girl that SHE should be ashamed and feel guilty over being the VICTIM of a sexual assault when she is only EIGHT years old (or any age, for that matter) is horrific. It is also clearly quite damaging to her emotional and mental well being. Where the hell is CPS?
July 30th, 2009 at 2:33 am
I remember when I first heard about this a couple of days ago I thought the same thing?
WHAT COUNTRY ARE WE IN? DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN IN THE USA? Sounds like any third world people who enter this country need to be briefed on how America views and handles these issues. Maybe they would think at least twice before such stunts.
July 30th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Is it true the rapists are only aged 9 and 10 years. How does this work with the American justice system. Can a child be charged with rape? What happens to the victim is she removed from her home because of her families attitude. This child may be in danger now from her own family.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:43 am
Ever wonder why Liberia is such a horrible place to live? Because this is how they deal with evil in their society. Character is destiny, and the character of a society is found in its culture.
September 4th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
fukkin idiots are bringing shame on themselves. they are pushing that little girl away when she needs them most! She didnt bring that on herself nno way! I hope someone steps in and takes that lil girl under their wing and protects her from all the pain and helps her to heal and to become and happy healthy and strong woman one of theese days!