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Fiercely Independent
Uploaded by Holedigger999 Sep 21, 2017 at 12:54AM EDT
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Uploaded by Holedigger999 Sep 21, 2017 at 12:54AM EDT
Origin Entry: Feminism
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![The 18-year-old woman ("J.L.") had sex in her car in a parking lot with a 15-year-old boy* whom she knew socially. During the sex she withdrew her consent and asked him to stop. The boy stopped without having e---------, they returned to the McDonald's restaurant they had been earlier that day and she gave him her telephone number Hours later she told a friend's mother what had happened, the boy was arrested and tried for r--- for his failure to stop the intercourse instantly: Assistant state's attorney: "About how long did he continue to push his penis into your vagina?" J.L.: "About five or so seconds Based on this delay of "five or so seconds" the boy was convicted of first-degree r---. Dr. Ann Burgess, a Professor of Nursing, testified on behalf of the State that the absence of torn clothes and the woman's behavior like her lack of physical resistance, failure to scream, sharing her telephone number, not calling 9n, not immediately telling the first person about the r--- "even if that person might be their best friend" and engaging in routine behavior such as "going to a supermarket and shopping" shortly after a r--- is consistent with what she called "r--- trauma syndrome" (her own theory which she developed with sociologist Lynda Holmström.) The court case highlighted not only the widening definition of r--- and how lack of r--- evidence can be used to construe "r--- trauma" but also how irrelevant the testimony of a male defendant has become Q: When she was sitting there, was she dressed? threw the condom [envelopel on the floor[.] and A: I tried to put it in. A: She didn't have nothing on but her shirt : How did she appear? A: She appeared normal Q: Was she crying? A: No, she wasn't Q: When you got in the car, what, if anything, A: Yeah.[.] did you say or do? A: I asked her if she was going to let me have sex to you? with her Q: What, if anything, did she say? A: She said yes, as long as I stop when she says down?[..] Had you previously closed it or opened her? to. And then I said, "I'm not going to r--- you Q: Did you feel that was permission? A: Yeah, I thought that that was permissio Q: Why did you say "I don't want to r--- you" where was she, what position was she in? A: Just to, because she said, "Stop when I say to,"A:She was, first she was sitting in the car when we Q: Did she say "Stop"? just to tell her that. It's kind of like to confirm was talking, and then she was still sitting when A: No, she didn't. She just sat up the permission. Q: So, after she said "Sto did you do, if anything? she picked it up and told me to throw it out the window Q: She gave it back to you? A: Yeah Q: Where was it? On the floor? Q: Do you know where it was touching or what happened to it? A: No. After I tried to put it in once, it wouldn't go in, and I tried a couple more times and it wouldn't go in. I didn't feel nothing there Q: What happened? What did she say or do? A: And then she sat up. She was like, "It's not going to go in," and that's when, after she sat up and said "It's not going to go in,"[..] Q: What did you do with it when she gave it back A: I threw it out the window Q: Was the window open, or did you have to Q: Who said, "It's not going to go in?" You or A: She did it A: No. I didnt touch the window the whole night. Q: When she sat up, what did that mean to Q: When you were putting on your condom, you A: That meant stop put on the condom. But then after, when I was Q: And you took that to mean stop? hen I say stop,"what y to go in there, she was like laying down in A: Yeah. Q: When she sat up, did you try t agai A: No, I did e car in the backse nd Q: What did you your pe my po cket a What did CO pped it open, I pu coI do The boy was sentenced to 15 years in prison, with all but 5 years suspended, and 5 years probation upon release IN ACTION](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/249/373/f35.jpg "Feminism in Action")
