Be careful about rape sob stories, there can often be more than meets the eye:
TAMPA - A 21-year-old Florida woman who sought help from police after reporting that she had been raped instead was arrested and spent two days in jail for failing to pay a three-year-old restitution order.
And what was the crime that she had to pay restitution for? Sounds like a violent felony to me:
The arrest warrant was based on an unpaid sum from a 2003 auto theft and burglary case, which the woman reportedly thought had been resolved.
The police arrested this rape victim because apparently she was involved in victimizing someone else and failed to pay her due to the victim. The fact that she was raped does not negate the fact that if she is indeed guilty of said felony, she has done her part to actively contribute to the "culture of victimization." Then again, we'll probably never know because the media refuses to identify rape victims sometimes, lest they be subjected to "stigma." In cases like this, that doesn't sound like it'd be entirely undeserved.
My question is this. If you have something as heavy as a court-ordered restitution for a felony like auto theft and burglary, how do you "not know" when you've finished making good on it. What kind of idiot doesn't track that sort of thing, considering how much of their life, liberty and property is at stake for failing to obey the guidelines of the sentence?
But she's a woman, and she says she was raped, so everything else automatically doesn't matter anymore...
I don't mean to sound like a heartless bastard but you make the excellent point of how she herself contributed to the culture of victimization which has now victimized her. She didn't care enough before to make sure her obligation to others were met but now she wants justice. How precious is that?
You're not being a heartless bastard. This isn't something like a parking ticket, you know. Auto theft and burglary are serious crimes that hurt people. People get injured or killed all the time by people who commit those crimes. That's why I have no sympathy for her. There's no reason she had to be let out except for a medical examination while they sorted out why she hadn't paid her restitution.