Section Discussion

Class Discussion

Richmond High School Rape Case

I don't understand how this type of thing can happen on school grounds. I can agree with the media in laying partial blame on the school because they should have been keeping a closer eye on the boys and also should have been stricter in letting in intoxicated people. I don't know, however, if I can blame the parents equally because the media doesn't really know how they raised their children. I'm positive they did not teach them to be rapists; they could have been trying really hard to steer their sons in the right direction but were undermined by the "culture of Richmond" as we discussed in class. However, I feel tension in not bringing up the part the boys played themselves because it's difficult to generalize a type of culture on an area and apply it to each individual person as if it were an excuse or justification to committ crime.

Greg Haidl Rape Case

This was a preventable case for sure. If the parents hadn't been so irresponsible and given the teenagers alcohol, it would not have occured; at least not in their roof. Even if it were okay to give them alcohol underaged, they should have at least supervised them and know what was going on in the same house. Greg Haidl's father assumes much of the blame I'm placing on the peretrator because he is an example of taking advantage of the power one is given in a career and he sets the same example for his son Greg. He should not have helped his son because that is illegal one, and also because Greg just didn't learn that his actions were not acceptable and I can't believe he went out and committed statitory rape afterward. Although the media placed a lot of blame on the girls' actions before and after the incident, the visual evidence of her being unconscious should have been enough to undermine her actions. This case made me the angriest out of all the ones we discussed.

Roman Polanski Rape Case

This case is disgusting. How could a grown man be interested in a thirteen year old girl and where was her mother. Her mother should not have allowed her daughter such liberties, especially since she was a model already and the modeling industry is not known for its emphasis on morality. I wonder if her mother knew that she was drinking, and sexually active. It doesn't make sense as to why the girl would even be in that position in the first place to where the rape could even occur. However, Roman Polanski should have known way better and the full blame ends up going to him because he knowingly drugged her even if he didn't know her age or something, it's never okay to drug somebody.