According to the Los Angeles Times in Richmond, California at a school homecoming dance, a 15-year-old girl was raped by multiple males. As she was being raped multiple on-lookers didn’t bother to call for help. Now the media is all on top of the school and classifying them as savages. Seems to me that the discussions we have in class are true about news being more like entertainment. Although this doesn’t affect the country, it made nation wide headlines. This is a story that is out of the ordinary, we are not accustomed to seeing this everyday. To make matters worse this took place in a inner-city of northern california. Unlike in other related articles, the Los Angeles Times didn’t show any sympathy towards the girl who was violated by multiple men. She was actually portrayed as an accomplice to the whole situation. They emphasized her being drunk, wild, and half conscious. Had it been one person instead of multiple men this story would not had made head line news. Had it been at a random location and not at a high school it would not have been on nation wide news. These are the type of stories that keep our eyes glued to the paper and our ears open to the news.
Gang Rape in Richmond, CA
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