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The "Victim" Was a "Girl"

By K.C. Johnson

Apart from the obvious?that in both the specifics of the alleged crime and the (to date, non-existent) conduct of the prosecutor the Sacred Heart controversy has no similarities to the Duke lacrosse case?I have no comment on the specifics of the allegations at Sacred Heart. But it is striking to read some of the early press coverage. (Emphasis added throughout.) Dashiell Bennett, Deadspin:The victim told police they got naked and assaulted her. It?s interesting to discover that Bennett?a mere hours after the allegations first went public?had concluded that a crime had occurred, making the (unnamed) accuser ?the victim.? Daniel Tepfer, Connecticut Post: According to police, the 18-year-old female victim, from New Jersey, was having consensual sex with Sanders in a room at SHU's Roncali dormitory across Park Avenue from the Fairfield campus when Sanders suddenly held the girl down on the bed and called two other males to join him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on November 24, 2009 (boomark / email).