I had a wake-up call yesterday on the amount of child abuse going on - My tale from jury duty

Bloodfeast Island Man

Bloodfeast Island Man

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I didn't know where to put this but I wanted to put this realization that I had yesterday that has really surprised and depressed me.

I got called for jury duty. Eventually, 30 of us go to a room. We find out it's a sexual assault case. The prosecutor asks in a polite way, "How many people here have been molested or had a close family member that was and by whom?" There were around 10 people in that 30 that raised their hand. 1/3 of the fucking people in the random sample of my small county were either directly or indirectly affected by someone being molested or touched or what the fuckever. It wasn't all women. Several guys got molested by babysitters. Some people had sisters/daughters/granddaughters.

How has the older generations (and the newer ones obviously with all the teet yeeting and cock chops) failed this bad? Why wasn't Cousin Chester turned into a tree swing?
Sorry for being MATI and I know this is dumb but I want to put this out there for those who thought like I did that while your small town doesn't have trannies and faggots, kids are still being abused way more than I thought.
 
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.iota. said:
or ... one third of the people that were summoned figured out how to get dismissed from jury duty.
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I know of atleast 3 that were struck for saying they were molested but I don't see a room of mostly 35-60 year olds using that as an excuse. Way easier outs before and after ("What's your thoughts on the police? Do you have a negative opinion of the police?")

For what it's worth, it was a guy and a girl in the 19-22 age range. Sounded like the only thing the state had to offer was a girl saying she had vagina touched. No DNA, no other witnesses, nothing. Just a complaining witness. The defense didn't show any of their cards. I imagine since I was the only former felon (record expunged after completing probation), the prosecution didn't want to take its chances with me. (3rd person struck by prosecution)
 
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@Bloodfeast Island Man - to respond to the old days of why didn't your ancestors get rid of the cousin fuckers and molesters in the family is simple. Most people don't want to believe their spouse, brother, kid or X could be a rapist. They Will make excuses like X daughter or son seduced him.

Generally speaking sexual trauma begets sexual trauma. So creepy great uncle Lester molests, Uncle Phil who's publicly gay, who ends up molesting billy. They may even think it's wrong but don't really know any other way.

Unfortunately it's gotten worse as many pedophile's can simply argue they're a feminist or a queer person and dumb rubes who are more concerned about little Timmy being a Nazi ignore these issues oftentimes until they've gotten too far.
 
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I don’t mean to deny the reality that sa is bad but the question was do you know anyone who is or have been a victim of sa yourself. It makes that potential pool of 30 jump to at least 100 per person. 10 out of 3000 looks a lot different. You don’t know either: small county, there may have been some brother-sister-cousins on the room.

Sexual assault is still a major issue and I think it’s because some people are not taught that they don’t have a right to other people.
 
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I've seen people insist they can't tell the difference between right and wrong to get out of jury duty. Raising your hand when asked if you've ever been molested is on par with claiming to be gay to get out of going to Viet Nam. They're all scamming.
 
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Where do you live? Seems to be more of a local problem.
Of course letting sodomites and sex pests run freely also increases molestation.
 
The prosecutor asks in a polite way, "How many people here have been molested or had a close family member that was and by whom?"
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The title suggests pedo specific, but this Austin doesn't appear bounded by age. Did they differentiate between child and adult victims?

It wasn't all women. Several guys got molested by babysitters.
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Well duh, basically the same quantity of men and women get raped per year. (Adjusted for population, when defining rape as "non-consentual sex" instead of "receiving vaginal penetration").

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1.1% of women are penetrated against their will, whether by physical force or by drugs. 1.1% of men are made to penetrate, methodology unspecified.

2.2% vs 2.3% "unwanted sexual content" isn't that far off either.

Not acknowdging coercion because I'm not sure if that's like blackmail or sex pesting. Probably not drugs since that's higher up the chart.

Also ignoring non-contact cases because what even is that? Sexting?
 
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Most people are terrified to actually try to enforce justice. They are told that the state will handle any given situation and so they leave it to "the authorities" who, especially in the modern day will do the smallest possible action that they can to declare a problem is solved while it rots away unseen by the populace.

The more the average individual feels disempowered in the name of the state, the more common this will become.

The other individuals are correct and it was a convenient way to get our of jury duty... but my general point still stands.
 
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I had a similar experience. I was part of jury selection about 15 years ago in my rural Appalachian community. Of the 8 cases they were picking juries for, one was a civil contract dispute, one was a trespassing/petty theft case, one was for heroin dealing, and the remaining 5 were sexual assaults; 4 of them against minors and 2 of them being against prepubescent minors.

I got picked for the heroin case (which was it's own skillet of shit) and a case of someone molesting an 8 year old. On the day of that trial, we were sat in the jury room for about an hour, then informed a plea deal had been struck and we were free to go. Everyone in the room was visibly relieved; who wants to have to hear about that sort of thing?
 
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Bloodfeast Island Man said:
I know of atleast 3 that were struck for saying they were molested but I don't see a room of mostly 35-60 year olds using that as an excuse. Way easier outs before and after ("What's your thoughts on the police? Do you have a negative opinion of the police?")

For what it's worth, it was a guy and a girl in the 19-22 age range. Sounded like the only thing the state had to offer was a girl saying she had vagina touched. No DNA, no other witnesses, nothing. Just a complaining witness. The defense didn't show any of their cards. I imagine since I was the only former felon (record expunged after completing probation), the prosecution didn't want to take its chances with me. (3rd person struck by prosecution)
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Sounds like another case of drunk sex regret or just wants to ruin some guy's life for shits and giggles.

>I imagine since I was the only former felon

What did you do?
 
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I think they legit blacklist you for jury duty if you mention that you are a fan of Jury Nullification.
Did that once five years ago when I first got called up in my area and I've never received a summons since.
 
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I don’t mean to deny the reality that sa is bad but the question was do you know anyone who is or have been a victim of sa yourself. It makes that potential pool of 30 jump to at least 100 per person. 10 out of 3000 looks a lot different.
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The question:
"How many people here have been molested or had a close family member that was and by whom?"
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Being lenient and saying that the jury have 5 "close family members" each, that's still like 10 in 150, far worse than 10 in 3000.

Best case scenario, all members of the jury have big families and some members of the jury are considering the same person when they raise their hand (maybe the victim is a mutual cousin who they each still think of as 'close'? But surely the jury would be selected to avoid having that sort of thing happen), and others are just trying to get out of duty. Even then it's gonna be something like 2 in 300 at absolute best.
 
Peep the "are troubled teen programs a focal point for abuse" thread for my infodump on institutional abuse and torture sometime.
Or look at a 2 hour congressional hearing on it that exposed a lot of awfulness but led to nothing being done because congress. It's endemic.
 
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