gang rape in rio triggers fury (another day, another gang rape, but NO war on women!!)
(quite a difference in tone between the globe and mail's coverage, and that of the wsj) the details in the first story are beyond sickening)
Police identify four suspects in Rio de Janeiro gang-rape
Brazilians protest in front of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro (ALERJ) on May 27, 2016, against a gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl. (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Police have identified four suspects in the gang-rape of a Rio teenager that was widely shared on social media. The attack – and the fact that the men posted video and boasting pictures of themselves with the naked and unconscious victim on social media – is causing growing outrage in Brazil. Countering the initial public narrative that the girl must have been the victim of one of the drug gangs that control favelas, or slums, in the area where the attack took place, the men identified by police as suspects are “regular guys” – one was until recently a camera operator at a local television station, another is a promising football player for a local team and the son of an evangelical pastor.
The victim, a 16-year-old high school student, took to social media herself on Friday to thank people for their message of support. “It’s not my uterus that hurts, it’s my soul, because there are such cruel people who are not punished,” she wrote in Portuguese. “I really thought I’d be judged badly. But I wasn’t. We could all go through this one day.” She has changed her profile picture to a symbol used to denounce violence against women, with the words “End Rape Culture.”
Last December, the young woman made a lengthy post to Facebook that now seems chillingly prescient. She wrote about how the city of Rio is a mess – listing problems including corruption by police and the vulnerability of the poor. “It’s a city where rape is the victim’s fault, where women get beaten in silence,” she wrote.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/police-identify-four-suspects-in-rio-de-janeiro-gang-rape/article30196161/
Alleged Gang Rape in Rio Triggers Fury
Video of attack shared online; acting president rues that ‘we have to live with barbarous attacks like this’
Demonstrators attended a protest against rape and violence against women in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. Photo: ricardo moraes/Reuters
RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazilian social media exploded in outrage this past week after images were circulated online of the suspected gang rape of a 16-year-old girl by dozens of attackers in Rio de Janeiro. Several people posted images of the alleged victim on Facebook on Tuesday and Wednesday, creating a firestorm of condemnation and demands for police action. Hashtags like “rape never again” and “rape is not the victim’s fault” were among the top trending topics on Twitter.
The incident, which allegedly occurred last weekend, highlighted Rio’s crime problems little more than two months before the city hosts the Olympic Games. The city of Rio registered 507 cases of rape in the first four months of 2016, down 8% from the year-earlier period, according to the state Institute of Public Security. Experts say, however, that sexual crimes are vastly underreported.
Screenshot from TV of a photo issued by Brazilian police of 41-year-old Raphael Assis Duarte Belo, one of 33 men suspected of gang-raping a 16-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: vanderlei almeida/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Police officials on Friday struggled to provide details of the case and couldn’t confirm whether a rape had in fact taken place. They said they had identified four suspects, including the victim’s alleged boyfriend and one person who appears in a video that has been shared, but haven’t sought arrest warrants. (the pictures of the unconscious girl with at least one man, pictures of her vagina, etc, don't mean anything, apparently)
“The possible commission of gang rape is being investigated,” said Alessandro Thiers, head of the cybercrimes unit in Rio’s investigative police force, in a news conference. “The crime of sharing those images is also being investigated.”
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/alleged-gang-rape-in-rio-triggers-fury-1464390171
http://www.indiatimes.com/news/world/a-teenager-in-rio-was-gang-raped-by-33-men-for-36-hours-here-s-why-brazil-is-keeping-it-a-secret-255802.html