Indian police forces are under attack once again after news of another horrific rape crime against a victim who was just five years old.
The arrest warrants for two 18-year-olds accused of raping two 13-year-old girls were unsealed late Friday afternoon, two months after the alleged attack, and they paint a very different picture of what happened than the story we've been hearing from the Torrington police — the same story students have been using to blame the alleged victims.
Everyone can agree that it's sickening: Students at a Connecticut high school continue to blame the victim on social media, even as the star athletes and accused rapists sit in prison. But does blaming the problem with rape culture on the new problems of the Internet ignore the cruel way rape victims have been treated in the past? Torrington, it seems, is about to find out.
An alleged rape in an Ohio town has transformed from a local controversy with a curious social-media angle to an all-out Internet crusade, with potential cover-ups, prosecutors colluding with coaches, disgusting new video, and hackers to the rescue. Here's a primer.
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