therefore every victim. (key word here victim I don't care if it's a man or a woman) needs to be treated with scepticism? do you know how incredibly rare the lacrosse rape hoax is compared to the countless of legitimate stuff that happens? like. come. on.
and note - I didn't say "woman." I said. person.
any person. who had something happen to them (like that) has the right to press charges, and a right to be heard. and i'm sorry, i doubt very much that most people want to open themselves to a bunch of crap for money. but that's always everyone's reaction around here.
So and so did something something
"Oh it must be for money."
why is that the first reaction?
then - note, while you are quoting Duke Lacrosse rape hoax links at me - I also asked, if your loved one came to you and said "this happened to me, and I feel really upset about it so i pressed charged/filed a complaint." is your first reaction going to be "are you only doing it for the money?" (or now apparently, are you gonna go "are you lying, coz Duke lacrosse hoax don't go there,."
like. it really disgusts me that people want to hand wave this "because drunk people hahaha, them kids ha ha " because it's Matthews, and he's the golden boy and face of the franchise yaadaadadaa and excusing it and putting blame on the person who did nothing wrong.
People want to treat this as if this is a minor thing (and i mean in the broad strokes of things. yes it's minor) - but we're ignoring one thing. it's not minor to the person who it happened to. And I don't understand why people can emphathize and see things from that woman's side instead of being "oh poor Auston, how dare this person press charges against you,there there."
think of your loved one (in this case female loved one) coming home, upset telling you that four drunk people came to your car, tried to get in, and then pulled their pants down in front of them. Is your honest to goodness first reaction going to be "lol. that's hilarious, y so serious?"
I mean. holy crap.
Anyway, if Auston was going to be the captain - I wouldn't take it away from him because of this. he's a human and humans make dumb mistakes (and so do hockey captains) but i also don't think this should just be chalked up to "but i was drunk." because .. i don't know. blaming it on drinking is a lousy excuse in my opinion.
No one knows what happened until it is proven In Court.
That being said. The part that I think people have questions about are
1.) it wasn’t JUST Auston. There is NO mention of other parties being arrested. In Canada. If you are adults who committed crimes together (allegedly) you get a joint charge. Unless
It works different in the states. Or the people he was with were kids. He is the only one who is charged.
Further. The incident the party claimed
To be the big incident was hearing a door handle. He was not identified in the statement as the one who did that. But as far as we know.
The only one who is charged is him. Why? Because he is the resident? Because he reportedly had his pants down (even though the guard said that didn’t matter. And may have been unrelated). She was outside and he was inside with another friend?
Another reason? When only one of three potential people gets charged there is a reason. We just don’t know what.
2.) for some reason the family was contacted. And refused to apologize. Why?
If you were the one who had something like this happen. Why would you contact the father before the police? Would you call an adults parent?
Would it be to say. “Listen I don’t want money I just want an apology? Would you be so mad that the Father who has nothing to do with it doesn’t respond?”
IF you had a son who was a rich athlete and a person contacted you instead of the Police. Not asking for money..... would you just not answer? If you have created a public image of volunteering and helping. Would you not offer an apology?
The agents and lawyers have provided advice. Did he ignore it? Or did they advise not to have contact?
Why?
Bottom line is. No one knows anything until proven in court.
We do have a rich athlete who was accused
Of being one of 3 potential suspects who touched a car door and may be the only one charged.
We do have a reporter who claims to have reached out to an adult males father to make some form of request and when it was denied that person decided to go to the police. That person specifically said it was the fathers lack of response that drove this person to make a report.
We don’t know what else happened beyond that. We don’t know motives we don’t know the truth.
You can ask yourself would you do any of these things. For some people they may draw conclusions about the “suspect”
For some they may draw conclusions about the “reporter”. In an ideal world. We wouldn’t draw any conclusions. Because we have a lot of questions.
But we don’t know what the truth is.
