Thursday, July 28, 2011

[TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE]Jamie Leigh Jones Loses Rape Case

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goodreasonnews:

Nearly five years after she was allegedly drugged and raped in Iraq by firefighters for Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, Jamie Leigh Jones has lost her case.

Now 26, Jones said she was drugged with the date rape drug Rohypnol and brutally raped in 2005, while working at KBR facility Camp Hope in Iraq. She also told jurors that after the incident, she was imprisoned in a shipping container and prevented from calling family for help, and later had to go through reconstructive surgery on her chest and psychiatric counseling for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

But jurors in the case against the Houston, Texas-based company decided in the end that Jones’s sexual encounter was consentual, rendering other charges moot.

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“We do think it’s a shame that Jamie’s entire personal history was dragged before the jury,” attorney Todd Kelly told the Chronicle, “when her rapist’s criminal history, including violence against women, was suppressed from them.”

Americans can’t win.

This woman needed reconstructive surgery after she was raped….I mean, after her consensual sex.

I feel sick.

ANYONE WANNA TELL ME AGAIN RAPE CULTURE DOESN’T EXIST?

I hate everything.

Posted at 9:13 PM 129 notes Reblogged from carvedpumpkin

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  4. raunchywords reblogged this from avocadobabydoll and added:
    It is absolutely ridiculous to suggest that juries cannot decide cases on the evidence presented before them. There were...
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  9. balancefit reblogged this from miniar and added:
    Did you see the company name? “Halliburton” Why am I not suprised?
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  12. ambookilluh reblogged this from theshitfacedgatsby and added:
    Life sucks. get over. it goes on.
  13. benadian reblogged this from theshitfacedgatsby and added:
    Fuck you, America. Fuck you. Fix your fucking shit. Stay out of other goddamn countries until you can get your own...
  14. theshitfacedgatsby reblogged this from sexgenderbody
  15. queanofthestonedage reblogged this from stardustpaste and added:
    Fuck. Everything. Sums up my feelings as well. :/
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  17. avocadobabydoll reblogged this from trashfemme and added:
    Words fail me.
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  20. stardustpaste reblogged this from flippylydia and added:
    Oh yeah, the perpetrator’s history doesn’t matter. Didn’t you know?
  21. humboldtoctober reblogged this from stfueverything
  22. flippylydia reblogged this from sanityscraps and added:
    …fuck everything.
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  25. oublietterated reblogged this from sexgenderbody and added:
    because i regularly require surgery after a consensual sexual act…i just fucking can’t even… the fact that she has been...
  26. quixotess reblogged this from jhameia and added:
    God damn it.
  27. thelastblogicorn reblogged this from brashblacknonbeliever and added:
    Well, that’s it. I’m off to slice my fucking wrists until I bleed to death.
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  29. operational-truth reblogged this from veeisagenderneutralname and added:
    what
  30. veeisagenderneutralname reblogged this from theoceanandthesky and added:
    FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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  33. tariqk reblogged this from jhameia and added:
    Dear America, Halliburton, and the larger social context that says that if a woman can’t say no she has consented, even...
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  35. holdinghope reblogged this from brashblacknonbeliever and added:
    This is so fucked up! Jesus Christ.
  36. jhameia reblogged this from sexgenderbody and added:
    Ugh ugh ugh.
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    I DON’T WANT TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE.