Poor Kid.....

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Thu, 07-23-2009 - 7:57pm

I guess this means what I think it means....


http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/22/arizona.juvenile.sexual.assault/index.html


(CNN) -- Four boys ages 9 to 14 have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year old girl, police in Phoenix, Arizona, said Wednesday.


The girl was lured into a vacant storage shed by the suspects, who offered her chewing gum, police said at a news conference.


The girl was restrained while the boys -- ages 9, 10, 13 and 14 -- sexually assaulted her, police said of the July 16 incident.


All the suspects except for the 14-year-old live in the same apartment complex, according to Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill. The 14-year-old has been charged as an adult, Hill said.


Detectives said the girl was placed in the custody of Phoenix child protective services after the attack because of her parents' attitude toward her.


The girl and the boys charged are all from families that have come to the United States from the West African nation of Liberia, police said.


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How horrific!


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Registered: 03-18-2000
Sat, 07-25-2009 - 9:15am

>"She suggested the family members "need serious counseling because, clearly, they are doing something that is no longer acceptable in our society here.""<


>""The parents felt that they had been shamed or embarrassed by their child," Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill said Thursday.


Tony Weedor -- co-founder of the CenterPoint International Foundation, which aids Liberians in the United States and provides aid for those still in Liberia -- agreed with Hill. He said rape was not against the law in Liberia until 2006.


"The family have been shamed by her ... and they're more concerned about that than the crime," he said.


Sirleaf said the family should not be concerned about that.


"Let me say very clearly that rape is a problem in Liberia also. There is a strong law regarding that," she said."<


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'Shame' felt by young assault victim's family decried
  • President Sirleaf speaks about Arizona sexual assault of refugee, 8
  • Four boys, ages 9 to 14, also refugees, are charged in the case
  • Sirleaf says, "This is not a question of shame on the family"
  • Liberia's ambassador to U.S. says he will join efforts to help the girl

  • http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/24/liberia.arizona.juvenile.assault/index.html

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    Registered: 04-05-2002
    Sat, 07-25-2009 - 9:34am
    I wonder what their views are on the rapists in Liberia.





    iVillage Member
    Registered: 03-18-2000
    Sat, 07-25-2009 - 10:03am

    I suspected it was some cultural 'thing', that they damned their daughter, & considered her attackers be released. It's so unnatural to our way of thinking.


    I'm trying to think of something comparable.

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    Registered: 08-30-2002
    Sat, 07-25-2009 - 3:46pm


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    Registered: 02-05-2009
    Sat, 07-25-2009 - 8:00pm

    It didn't matter how many good black people he was exposed to or worked beside in his long life, they were always, always, always considered beneath him. It wasn't done in anger or resentment, in any way, it was what he truly believed in his heart.


    Yeah, both of my parents, too.

    iVillage Member
    Registered: 08-30-2002
    Sun, 07-26-2009 - 2:46am
    I'm not cutting him or these parents any slack. I'm saying, no amount of counseling can change a mindset like that. There is something too fundamentalist about it.


    iVillage Member
    Registered: 03-18-2000
    Mon, 07-27-2009 - 7:57am

    Excellent analogy!


    Thank you.

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    Registered: 02-06-2009
    Tue, 07-28-2009 - 4:22am

    But wouldn't she just risk discovery when she's married off (probably at 14) to some guy (probably 50) and he sees she isn't a virgin?

    iVillage Member
    Registered: 02-06-2009
    Tue, 07-28-2009 - 4:23am

    I felt physically sick reading that link.

    UGH!!!

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