According to the RCMP:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news ... /3531151/story.html
I want to publicly state that some of the Facebook comments about the sex assault victim being a willing participant are totally false. The medical and physical evidence we have point to the young girl being the victim of a sex assault.
I have no reason to question the police about the truth of this statement.
I agree with the popularity thing, and had the incident been consensual sex, then yes, I would completely agree with you that reporting such things (consensual sex, even if it were a gangbang), would have been against the unspoken teenage popularity code. But this is a matter of basic rights and wrongs. The girl was getting raped by multiple guys. It should have been blatantly obvious that she was being forced to do this against her will. By any and every rule in the book -- even if it were the teenage popularity book -- this is something totally unacceptable.
ugh... 
-Lik |