8 year old Arizona girl is gang-raped -- then disowned by "shamed" parents.

The crime allegedly committed by the boys was horrible -- but the parents' behavior was even worse. The damage they have done to their daughter is incalculable. But there's no law against dumping your children, apparently.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2009/07/22/20090722sexassault0722-ON.html

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Phoenix police on Wednesday announced that they arrested four neighborhood boys in connection with the incident, in which investigators said the group lured the girl into the shed with chewing gum, held her down and sexually assaulted her.


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The girl and the four suspects are refugees from the war-torn West African country of Liberia, which, according to investigators, would complicate authenticating names and dates of birth.

Arizona Child Protective Services took custody of the girl after the July 16 incident at the apartment complex after her parents disowned her.

Hill said the parents blamed her for being victimized and bringing shame to the family.

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Takes time and training, and classes and probation periods to get a drivers license when you are young, but any idiot can have a kid.

"ages 9, 10 and 13" Fuck! Where did they even get the idea to rape someone?

And her d-bag parents need to be sent back to Liberia if they love the 15th century so much.

U.S. to begin with?

It involves the boys being related to Charles Taylor and Pat Robertson bribing right-wing immigration authorities and members of the Bush administration.

Lord knows we have enough American citizens to deal with who hold such views.

I don't give a shit what culture you are from. That doesn't mean you all of a sudden lose the ability to draw logical conclusions.

They think she brought this upon herself? Uh no.

come here.

Through good old fashioned American common sense.

Let's not get bogged down in an over intellectualized web of moral relativism.

What happened here is backassward and has no place in America.

I can tell you such a culture won't produce incidents where the female rape victim is disowned or even stoned to death for "bringing shame to the family." Such a culture is one that demeans women and puts them on a lower standing than men.

...precisely to get away from those kinds of cultures.

And we should welcome such people.

We should not, however, welcome people who wish to bring the backassward attitudes with them to America. We have enough of that shit to deal with from white Southern Baptist evangelicals.

after all we've come through, women are still so mistreated.

I mean stating that the parents "added insult to injury" is just too soft.


Honestly, words escape me. This entire story is fucked up on so many goddamn levels that it's absolute FUBAR.

attitude with them, not all end up in such a horrific story.

There are many young women who require special surgery to "repair" their hymen when they are getting married so the grooms will believe they are virgins.

There are still cases of fathers murdering their daughters for being raped. At least here, the police get there first.

This girl would be better off being placed in a foster home.

I have some people I need to beat half to death with a rusty crowbar.

Fuck Islamic culture and their devaluing of women and children.

Fuck 'em.

Do you think this story is representative of Islamic culture?

I don't think it is.

That's what they believe.

A woman who has been raped is now "worthless".


This *IS* representative of their culture. They devalue women. They devalue children. And allah help you if you're both.

More like tribal Middle Eastern/North African culture.

You don't see these attitudes in say, Indonesian or Chinese Uighur muslim societies.

It's like the infibulation practise. It's certainly not mandated by the Koran.

How are these "parents" any different than those goddamn Islamists the West should have left the Soviet Union finish off 30 years ago?

Incidentally, is anyone else wondering how much Pat Robertson and Charles Taylor would enjoy life as cellmates in a Venezuelan prison?

We must be extremely vigilant with regards to African immigrants from countries where the American brand of fundamentalist Christianity, by way of White missionaries no less, has gained considerable political and cultural influence.

That poor child.