Guilty! Erica DePalo, West Orange, New Jersey (arrested Aug 2012)

10 Stories That Show How Horribly We Treat Male Rape Victims

In the United States, men are sexually assaulted just as often as women. That might sound unbelievable, but the numbers are almost identical. Between 2010 and 2012, 1.267 million men and 1.270 million women claimed to be victims of sexual violence. It’s a fact that goes against a lot of what we think we know. But there’s only one reason those numbers are so surprising: For years, our definition of “sexual violence” has been designed to say that men can’t be victims. The government specifically defined “rape” as “the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.” There ...

6 Multiple News Outlets Have Shared Galleries Of ‘Hot’ Pedophile Teachers

The Hollywood Gossip has a gallery of 31 teachers whom they have called “2 Hot 4 Students.” The gallery consists of the sexiest photographs the editors could find of adult women who have committed statutory rape. It’s a dark glimpse into how we perceive adult women who take advantage of young boys sexually. But it’s hardly one of a kind. When 26-year-old Stephanie Peterson was arrested for having a sexual relationship with an eighth-grade boy, the headline at Fox News did not talk about her as a predator. Instead, it said that she “sent nudes [and] had sex romps” with ...

3 A Judge Praised A Teacher Who Raped A 15-Year-Old Boy

When teacher Erica DePalo was arrested for raping a 15-year-old boy, the people in her hometown were so outraged that they sent the judge more than 30 letters in support of the person they felt was the victim. But they didn’t think the victim was the 15-year-old boy. They thought it was the teacher. The whole community rallied around DePalo, with the local paper writing that she was a former Essex County Teacher of the Year “loved by students and respected by colleagues.” They also justified her actions by saying that “hidden behind her cheerful facade was a woman suffering ...

2 An Eighth Graders’ Parents Publicly Supported The Teacher Who Was Molesting Him

Sometimes, even the parents don’t try to protect the children in these cases. That’s what happened when eighth-grade teacher Alexandria Vera was caught having sex with a 13-year-old boy. His parents came out in support of the teacher. Legally, it was statutory rape. Vera was almost twice the boy’s age, and she was his teacher. By every interpretation of the law, she was a sexual predator and he was a victim of molestation. His parents, though, were happy to treat their child’s molestation as a romantic relationship. They admitted to the police that they were fully aware that she was ...

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