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queen-of-mists:coeur-de-porcelaine:thestray:mysecretorigin:talesofthestarshipregeneration:The police told her to report her rape. And then they arrested her for itLara McLeod never wanted to report her rape. In those first few hours, the 19-year-old was barely able to put what had happened to her into words. Joaquin Rams, Lara’s older sister’s fiancé, had forced Lara to have sex with him, she said — just two weeks after Lara’s sister, Hera, had given birth to Joaquin’s baby.Joaquin warned Lara not to tell anyone, she said, because it would ruin her family’s life. Lara feared that was true, but she broke down and told her parents the next day. They rushed out the door in a panic to pick up Hera and the baby. All Lara wanted to do after that was go back to sleep.Instead, later that evening, she got a call from a police officer in Prince William County, Virginia, the suburb of Washington, D.C., where Joaquin and Hera lived. He wanted to know whether what Lara had told her parents was true. When Lara said it was, the officer told her that she needed to come to the station immediately for a formal interview.You keep thinking that this story cannot POSSIBLY get any worse. And yet it does. Dismantle the police. Transformative Justice for all. This story is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever read…I don’t even have words, this is a nightmareThe fact that her takeaway from this nightmare is to never report rape is heartbreaking, fuck the police, fuck rape cultureRead the whole story. My jaw dropped. It’s absolutely heartbreaking and enraging. fuck -- source link
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