Victim blaming and a serial rapist,and Very Brave women.

I have been reading the excellent blog called" Everyday victim blaming", and as usual it points out the injustice done to victims of crime who are blamed by the criminals, and society. A police officer in America,Daniel Holtzclaw,has been convicted and sent to over 200 years in prison, which would be wonderful if only he will actually serve that time!!, i know in Britain criminals come out of prison having not served much time at all, one criminal served 15 years for killing 5 people,(and shooting eight,he was in a secure mental hospital,not even in prison),so he was locked up for an average of three years per person.Which stops the truth coming out because the victims familys could pass them in the street
An online newspaper called SB, a sports newspaper, published an article, basically defending the criminal Policeman, and feeling sorry for his parents, and i did feel very sorry for them too, they have spent their savings, and pensions to pay for the Court case.And although i am tempted to think that as parents they must have failed to make their son accountable for his actions, as in my experience of Domestic violence both of the parents of the criminals made excuses, for their sons,who were "never" at fault, then i felt that Holtzclaws parents were victims too..., they are certainly suffering now.
He made the decision to commit these criminal act, and as always it comes down to despising another person, to look at them and think they 'are not as good as me and i deserve to be in control of them', because they are poor, or weak or already vulnerable, have had trouble with drugs and been arrested many times.Before this "man" assaulted his victims, he checked their records to find vulnerable women,he was already being investigated for 6 weeks before he was finally arrested, a few hours after assaulting a 57 year old grandmother, who probably because she was older, went straight to the Police.He attacked 5 women after his investigation started, the 57 year old lady, Mrs Ligans is now suing them,because she feels they did not protect her by getting him off the streets. While the Victim Impact statements were happening Holtzclaw , who up to then had been"stoic and controlled" let his mask slip, and showed" rage- and glared at them", even the SB reporter says "showing observers a brief glimpse of his loss of power" and obviously the real man that his victims had seen as he assaulted them,with his gun in its holster just a feet away from these poor women. One of the victims statement came from a 17 yr old woman who he had raped on her mothers porch,who was now is too scared to leave the house.
A lot of people are wondering why this case has not been in the media, as has been the case when black men have been gunned down by Police officers,because these Brave women he attacked were black...The serial rapist is Asian,the implication being that these people are somehow not worth our trouble because they aren't of white European descent? as well as poor?
I have read the site set up by Holtclaw's sister,and the article which (has been taken down by SB,),as usual, victim blaming centres on what the Women were doing out late at night,veiled implications that they were "street" workers,(prostitutes) that some had been smoking drugs, and drinking, and that some almost "incapacitated by drugs". What does this matter? in my opinion, it makes the Criminal even more reprehensible.
The "Holtzclaw is innocent" site, makes much of the fact that only one woman, the 57 year old grandmother Mrs Ligans, was the only one who went to the Police,the Police had gone to the other Women and asked them if they had been attacked, some eventually admitted it, after being very unwilling, some lied, out of fear.I am amazed any of them ever admitted to Police what had happened to them.They are brave, and i admire them, i don't think i would have been so brave. The site also makes much of the different statements of Mrs Ligans family, about when she returned home,directly after the assault,its baffling,"why do three people have such different reports of her return home, " i may be stupid but what does that matter? why does what she said to them matter, surely that's hearsay anyway! they asked her family what time she returned, what she said to them? .What does it matter? except of course to somehow make them look less than human in the Juries eyes?.. or to make them look like liars?.
Why would all these women lie about these attacks as the "innocent" site is implying!! Why would all the police officers in that area get together to condemn a police officer? It doesn't happen!!...This whole trial and rapist has uncomfortable similarities to the Cases in England where young vulnerable girls, where targeted by men, and for too long was covered up because the men were from the Muslim community.
In a recent case,in Rotherham, England,in the last few days another Peadophile ring has been convicted, these men despised these young white women as lower,less human somehow than them.(they were Arabs).. In Birmingham ,England in the 1970's another 17 year old girl,Jill and her family were having a quiet night in with her family, when the next door neighbour shot her father and brother in their front drive,then shot her five times,and shot and killed her Mum after he burst into the house, she heard her Mums last breath.He then went on the run for 12 hours, shooting another 4 innocent people, in total he murdered five,Julie Birkits whole family died, and she has suffered may years years of terror that he would come back and 'finish the job', by killing her, he was let out of hospital,after just 15 years ( a secure mental unit after being diagnosed with Schizophrenia,)he went back to Birmingham, and settled only 6 miles from where Jill lived, then spent the next 6 years being the 'neighbour from hell' to another innocent Birmingham family who eventually moved to their In-laws, just to get away from Him,he tracked them down and appeared at the house, and said you' don't know what i can do'.This alarmed the local police who looked into his background and found out that he was the Murderer,from the 1970's, the Police found guns and a home made bomb in his house.All though supposedly diagnosed with a severe mental illness, when he was arrested for his first crime, Williams said"you would have done the same if you were me, they werent people just things"....At the time of these murders Jill's family were called 'noisy'.She very bravely went to see him sentenced in court,ready to challenge anyone who would lie about her family again,her family were vindicated.