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jsr

(7,712 posts) Fri Oct 18, 2013, 01:45 PM Oct 2013

Missouri teen writes about being raped by grandson of politician and target in Maryville community

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/missouri-teen-writes-raped-grandson-politician-target-maryville-community-article-1.1489769
http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/daisy-coleman-maryville-rape

I'm Daisy Coleman, The Teenager At The Center Of The Maryville Rape Media Storm, And This Is What Really Happened
You may have heard my story, thanks to Anonymous who trended #justice4daisy. I'm not done fighting yet.
Daisy Coleman

Winter: cold, bleak, bitter, ugly. Almost like summer has taken off its mask and shown its true colors. Everyone is forced to see how ugly life can truly be. Others get a season of beauty: summer.

My whole life since January 8, 2012, has been a long, reckless winter.

The night everything changed I was having an old friend over to catch up and have fun. Her name is Paige, and she is a year younger than I am. At the time, she was 13, and I was 14.

We had been best friends since we were both very young, and continued to be best friends, even though I had moved from Albany to Maryville. She was in the eighth grade, and I was in the midst of my freshman year.

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Missouri teen writes about being raped by grandson of politician and target in Maryville community (Original Post) jsr Oct 2013 OP

Sickning.....To paraphrase Frank Zappa Bennyboy Oct 2013 #1

I read through her statement at the link brer cat Oct 2013 #2

So brave and courageous Daisy. You are a survivor! riderinthestorm Oct 2013 #3

Bennyboy

(10,440 posts)

1. Sickning.....To paraphrase Frank Zappa

Reply to jsr (Original post)

Fri Oct 18, 2013, 02:10 PM

Oct 2013

I may not be a woman, but there are times when I sure wish I wasn't a man.... and this is certainly one of them.

brer cat

(24,576 posts)

2. I read through her statement at the link

Reply to jsr (Original post)

Fri Oct 18, 2013, 02:26 PM

Oct 2013

and it was hard not to cry. Young people often learn a hard lesson when they drink or do drugs, but absolutely nothing she did "deserved" being raped, and the abuse and bullying she has endured since then has been atrocious. IMO she is a very brave young lady to come out as she has. I hope that enough pressure is put on the Maryville officials that they can't bury this again.

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)

3. So brave and courageous Daisy. You are a survivor!

Reply to jsr (Original post)

Fri Oct 18, 2013, 02:31 PM

Oct 2013

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