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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The saddest thing about this case to me is that two men could witness a woman's rape in progress and people still go out of their way to defend and excuse the rapist. "He didn't actually rape her." (Well, no. The witnesses stopped it from happening.)  "He's a good kid who made a mistake." (He was raping a woman behind a dumpster.)  "She was really drunk."  (Rapists usually pick easy targets, and that is often people who are really, really drunk.) "This has ruined his life!" (He ruined his life.)

If people can defend a rapist caught in the act of rape, then there really is no hope for our culture. [/quote]

There is no doubt and no one is arguing that this girl passed out and Brock was seen dry humping her.  He admitted to digitally penetrating her (with her consent) and his admission is probably the prosecution's definitive evidence that Brock is the one who did that.  Without his admission and no witness seeing that actually happen it would have been hard to prove that Brock was the one who penetrated her.  Emily had evidently been walking around that party VERY drunk for a while with no memory of what she had done or had done to her.  W/o Brock's admission I doubt that it would have been clear what had happened to her.

I am no rape apologist btw.  There are just some puzzling things about all of this.  I think a society that jumps in with pitchforks and baseball bats without even questioning what all happened here is..not a great society to live in.  It is o.k. to ask questions.  It is o.k. to try and understand HOW this happened to Emily.  It is o.k. to try to understand wtf was going through Brock's mind to do what he did.  Even with this conviction - it is o.k. to still have questions as to WHY this happened the way it happened.

You prefer to think that this kid was a sociopathic serial rapist in the making who would have done this at some point to some girl.  Maybe you are right.  But it is also possible that this was more of a perfect storm of events that led to a bizarre and unlikely conclusion.

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