"The Real America": Young girl raped in Texas and everyone in town conspires against her

[mastermind]

till, on the afternoon of Aug. 11, the Martin football crowd celebrated “War Party” — a kind of catered pep rally meant to kick off the football season before the start of school. For the kids, though, the main attraction was the after-party.

Wyatt was celebrating her inaugural year on the varsity cheerleading squad that evening. She performed routines at War Party, and around 9 p.m., arrived in her car at a 4,756-square-foot residence owned by the parents of another cheerleader. It was one of many fine homes within the gates of its upscale subdivision, with a spacious driveway out front and a lagoon-like swimming pool in back — a striking contrast to Wyatt’s far smaller home in an aging neighborhood across town. Even if no one spoke openly about the class distinctions among the cheerleaders, they were well understood.

That night Wyatt was buoyant, thrilled and on the young side for the night’s crowd, mostly juniors and seniors. She had a natural beauty, golden-skinned with long, dark hair. She had always been athletic and happiest on teams, playing soccer and participating in competitive cheerleading. She was wildly sociable, with A’s and B’s in school and an overwhelming urge to be liked. She was earthy and indelicate, not remotely shy; friends came easily, and she leaned on their approval. Arlington cheerleaders were, by many accounts, a hard-partying crowd, and Wyatt partied with the hardest of them, drinking with her friends and occasionally indulging in drugs such as Xanax and marijuana.

Somewhere near the close of this narration, Wyatt appeared in the door of the guest room, “too afraid to be alone,” Aven wrote. She asked whether Aven would stay with her until she fell asleep, and he agreed. Aven went into Marks’s guest room with Wyatt, helped her into bed and did his best to comfort her. He pulled out a trundle bed alongside her and laid down facing her. Wyatt recalled in her interview with police that Marks appeared at some point and gave her boxers and a T-shirt to sleep in, which she changed into. With Aven at her side, Wyatt eventually fell asleep.

The next day, Aven woke up alone. Wyatt was gone, the party was long over, and the nightmarish evening had given way to an ordinary summer morning in suburbia. And the boy who had been trusted with the markedly adult task of comforting a terrified, injured girl now called his father to come pick him up from the Marks home.

When police arrived there a day and a half later, after Wyatt filed a complaint, they found Cindy Marks polite and respectful while they gathered the bedding Wyatt had slept on and searched for any additional clothes she may have left behind. But when Marks made her sworn statement several weeks later — after canceling her initial appointment with police — the story she supplied differed vastly from the version of events Aven and Wyatt had related.

So Johnson began to keep track of what became of her cases once she sent them to the district attorney’s office. Journalist Tim Madigan at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram caught up with Johnson during his own investigation into Tarrant’s no-bill rates and incorporated her findings. Published in 2012, Madigan’s report found that Tarrant County’s no-bill rate for alleged acquaintance rapes was 51 percent. By contrast, the city of Austin’s no-bill rate for the same crime was 13 percent. For whatever reason, Tarrant County simply wasn’t deciding to indict in such cases at the same rates as other locales.

This is a long-form article but its one of the saddest and infuriating things you will ever read.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

this is why anybody bytching about rape culture, toxic masculinity, and "me too" can attempt a world record at sucking dikk

 

[mastermind]

this is why anybody bytching about rape culture, toxic masculinity, and "me too" can attempt a world record at sucking dikk

It’s what we are seeing with Kavanaugh

 

[ezrathegreat]

 

[Geek Nasty]

cliffnotes

 

[King of Creampies]

That is quite common to happen in Texas and also in Louisiana.

They do not lock up white boys for that shyt.

 

[88m3]

sad but expected


women deserve better

 

[ORDER_66]

Dat white america showing this is who they've always been.... They have entire towns that lynched black folks back in the day for nothing, and they escaped with no retribution or justice... why does this keep surprising people that hear of stories from these towns??? This is what white america has always done... they protect one another no matter what...

 

[Professor Emeritus]

cliffnotes

16-year-old White girl from a working-class background was taken away from a party to a shed while she was drunk and violently raped by two popular guys while trying to fight back. She immediately told three people what happened and reported it to the police the next day. One of the boys claimed at the scene that she had just slipped when she went to pee in the woods and that no one had had any sexual contact at all. Police verified physical injuries all over the girl, clear evidence of both vaginal and anal rape, semen matching one of the boys, and found her bra and panties inside the shed where she had been raped, disproving the boy's claims. The rape specialist who examined the girl said that all the evidence pointed towards rape.

Afterwards the mother who had hosted the party covered up evidence, lied about what had been going on at the party, and basically threw the victim under the bus and claimed she was on drugs and none of her story had happened. Classmates began ostracizing the girl, flagrantly abusing her at school, even putting up graffiti mocking her.

Police never interviewed the rapists, never asked the rape specialist to testify, never allowed the girl to testify, and chose not to indict in the end claiming it was a "he said, she said" case even though there was a huge amount of evidence. They then destroyed all the physical evidence.

The girl ended up having to leave and go to an alternative school, spiraled into some pretty major drug and alcohol problems and almost died. She's slowly putting her life back together now.

this is why anybody bytching about rape culture, toxic masculinity, and "me too" can attempt a world record at sucking dikk

It’s what we are seeing with Kavanaugh

sad but expected


women deserve better

Amen.

I don't get the a$$hole in the thread. Mental illness? Wants to be like the enemy but just with a different color? Senseless.

 

[Ciggavelli]

I’m embarrassed to live in Texas. Like for real.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Negged. And you're an ass for negging me.

 

[ezrathegreat]

Negged. And you're an ass for negging me.

 

[DEAD7]

"the real America"

 

[BoBurnz]

"the real America"

I have yet to meet a woman who hasn't been assaulted, and I'm talking someone forcibly groping her all the way up not "he put a hand on my side once" that alt-right morons peddle as "SJW nonsense" on the internet.

Yes, this is how our entire country, not just white folks we cover up assault and rape as well don't brush our own aside, treats women and victims. This is why reporting rates for violent crimes against women is so astronomically low.

Instead of brushing aside the point how about you think about how you've seen situations like this, and we all have, and how you can be better.

 

[mastermind]

It's incredible that people can deny all the issues of violence against women, but then stories like this take place where a whole town conspires to make sure two degenerate shyt bags are not held accountable for violence against a woman. Especially Cindy Marks who flat out ran Amber Wyatt over with a bus and then backed up to make sure she was flattened.