Rapists come from all backgrounds

by Rishi Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:31 pm

On March 6, 1983, after putting her two daughters to sleep following the older daughter's third birthday party, Araujo left her home to buy cigarettes. The store she usually purchased from was closed, so she stopped at Big Dan's tavern in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Two men approached and asked her to leave with them. When she refused, a third man grabbed her from behind and threw her onto the bar's pool table. She was stripped below the waist, and several men raped her. According to Araujo, she heard people "laughing, cheering, yelling", but no one responded to her cries for help. Eventually, Araujo fought off her attackers and ran half-naked into the street, screaming that she had been raped. Three college students passing by in a van came upon Araujo in the street and drove her to the nearest hospital.

Six men were originally charged with the rape, though only four, Victor Raposo, John Cordeiro, Joseph Vieira and Daniel Silva, were eventually tried in two separate trials because some of them implicated each other. The trials attracted international attention. During live TV coverage in the US, the victim's name was broadcast. The three college students who drove Araujo to the hospital testified as to the state of terror she was in when they encountered her. The four defendants were convicted of aggravated rape, two men were acquitted of the charges.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Araujo#cite_note-2

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3925/Readings/newBedford.pdf

I still remember a Portuguese American guy I knew downplaying this. He said "those guys were new to the country."

by Guest Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:38 pm

part of this sounds like the jodie foster movie. guess it was based on this incidence, except in that, jodie's character was shown as slutting it up and what u may call, 'asking for it'. The movie was to stress that a 'no' is a 'no', no matter what state the woman is in.

by Kris Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:44 pm

Vidya Bagchi wrote:part of this sounds like the jodie foster movie. guess it was based on this incidence, except in that, jodie's character was shown as slutting it up and what u may call, 'asking for it'. The movie was to stress that a 'no' is a 'no', no matter what state the woman is in.

>>> Yeah, thhe movie was based on that incident.

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