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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 02:31 PM Dec 2014

TYT: School Argues Low IQ Girl Won't Remember Sexual Assault



“An expert hired by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) argued in court that a 9-year-old girl seeking damages after she was sexually assaulted would be protected from emotional stress by her low IQ.

Court documents obtained by KPCC investigative producer Karen Foshay detailed forensic psychologist Dr. Stan Katz’s 2013 testimony in a trial to determine how much in damages the 9-year-old girl would receive after she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a boy at one of the district’s schools.”*

Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) Jimmy Dore (http://www.twitter.com/jimmy_dore) and Misty Kingma (http://twitter.com/mistykingma) of The Young Turks discuss.

*Read more from here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/los-angeles-school-district-therapist-low-iq-girls-suffer-less-trauma-from-sex-assault/
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TYT: School Argues Low IQ Girl Won't Remember Sexual Assault (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2014 OP
Sorry but all that comes to mind is the word, "Pigs." I am the mother of a low IQ child. jwirr Dec 2014 #1
What a disgusting remark! Arkansas Granny Dec 2014 #2
In Texas group homes they have state-sanctioned rape. Manifestor_of_Light Dec 2014 #3
Barbaric get the red out Dec 2014 #4
Brainyack turbinetree Dec 2014 #5
Unbelievable! Enthusiast Dec 2014 #6
It's interesting... gregcrawford Dec 2014 #7
 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
3. In Texas group homes they have state-sanctioned rape.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 03:07 PM
Dec 2014

Friend of mine considered putting her daughter in one. When they drove up a bunch of men surrounded the car. She talked to the administrator and they told her, "You won't have to worry,we
will put your daughter on birth control pills."

The genders are not segregated.

The mother stormed out angrily refusing to subject her daughter to that kind of daily trauma.

turbinetree

(24,683 posts)
5. Brainyack
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:08 PM
Dec 2014

Lets get this straight this is GUY who may have children--yes ---no.
Has a degree as a psychologist, and if one of his children has a mentally disadvantaged and they got raped what would he say---duh?
Then to top it all off we have a school district that has members with children and they hire this GUY, time for a election---now

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
7. It's interesting...
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 09:42 AM
Dec 2014

... to note how many supposed "experts" who make a tidy living from testifying in trials are, in fact, third-string con artists whom any competent psychologist would immediately brand as "sociopaths." They are devoid of conscience and consumed by pathological selfishness. They see nothing wrong with making outrageous statements like Katz did, as long as they get paid for it. To such people, ethics are something they scrape off the soles of their shoes.

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