Jerry Punch said:
I don't put all egrizzers in this category but we all know many who went above and beyond the legal process to take down this young woman.
The "young woman" took herself "down." Unfortunately, the record is well-developed of what she wanted, and that she had a vindictive and vengeful nature when she didn't get what she wanted. The record is well-developed of her efforts to synthesize a cadre of sympathetic "key witnesses" by crying uncontrollably in their presence, and then texting
gleefully to friends about
how her plans were coming together ("this will hit JJ like a ton of bricks!
" ).
For those who did not respond with unqualified support, she reserved nothing but dire, cruel and vindictive threats. That included her closest family members. This was not a good case to generate sympathy for genuine victims. Indeed, the behaviors of the "young woman" confirmed many of the worst stereotypes of the kind of people who will falsely claim "rape" as punishment for unfulfilled social desires, and by taking it to trial, those stereotypes were reinforced in the public mind, as were notions that "victims" are often the "perpetrators." That is the damage that these kinds of cases do to genuine victims. That does deserve "our attention."