A 14 year old girl appears to have been brutally sexually assaulted by an 18 year old and 17 year old in her high school.
That is the sad reality period. Any sexual assault of any person should be met with the uproar and outcry that this particular incident has incited, but for entirely different reasons. Yet, this assault that took place in Maryland has become national news and trending on Twitter primarily because the two accused perpetrators appear to be illegal immigrants, with one fighting deportation and allegedly being helped by deportation activists prior to the incident.
The fact that a young lady was sexually assaulted by two young men is the only issue that should be talked about. The immigration status of the two accused as well as their race and/or ethnicity is completely immaterial to the greater (and only) issue here, which is the epidemic of sexual assaults in the United States as well as globally. The politics of immigration, as hot and heated a topic it has become as part of Trump’s presidency, should not be the dominant narrative and political tool used when all that is really important is the effect that this assault has had on this particular young lady as well any victims of sexual assaults. The victims is what we should be talking about. Eliminating sexual assaults is what we should talking about. Protecting women, children, boys, transgenders and even men from being victimized is what we need to be talking about. Stopping a culture in which these heinous crimes are far too commonplace is what we need to be talking about; not politics.
Normally I like to use statistics to substantiate my arguments, but when it comes to sexual assaults and this particular incident, I feel like the use of statistics would only cloud the judgement of those who have needlessly used this tragic circumstance as a source to triumph their political agendas. The unfortunate reality is that sexual assaults are a epidemic worldwide. Girls, boys, women and men are victimized and they fall within every race, ethnicity and socio-economic demographic. The perpetrators of these cowardly acts come in every shape and size. White men and women commit acts of sexual assault every day. Black men and women commit acts of sexual assault every day. Latin or Hispanic men and women commit sexual assaults every day. Catholics, Jews and Muslims commit sexual assaults. If I am leaving anyone out it is not by design, because the point is that sexual assault is not about race, ethnicity, religion or politics, but power and sickness and a culture that must be stopped in which anyone is ever victimized of these deplorable crimes.
The victims of sexual assaults need to be the only consideration in these discussions. Instead we have judges in California who take a Stanford student’s future into consideration when sentencing him to less than 6 months on jail for raping a fellow student when he was literally caught in the act. We allow news outlets and politicians to use the faces of People of Color (POC ) as scare tactics for their agendas of fear and loathing.
Crime needs to be reported. Illegal immigrants that commit any kind of violent crimes need to be deported, but to use the victimization of this young girl as some sort of battle cry against illegal immigration politics and rhetoric is nearly as disgusting as the violation this young woman had to endure.
Do not use victims of sexual assault as part of your agenda. Stop politicizing these acts. I do not care which side of the political spectrum you are on, victims of sexual assault deserve the respect of receiving help and compassion, not being used as tools for religious or political rants.
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