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Outrageous: La. Parish Says Jailed 14-year-old Consented to Repeated Rape by Corrections Officer
Rape victimization common 60 years ago in elsewhere is still alive and well in South Louisiana where a parish says it should not be held liable for a detention center correction officer raping a mentally distressed 14-year-old girl, who had a history of being abused as a child, because she consented to being repeatedly sexually assaulted. A 40-year-old corrections officer at the facility raped the girl, now 20 and filing charges against her assailant, former guard Angelo Vickers, and against Terrebonne Parish. Government commits documentary sexual assault against child “To say that a 14-year-old mentally and emotionally distressed girl with a history of having been abused and neglected as a child should be found at fault for consenting to be raped by a male guard while in confinement at the hands of my local government, which is charged with the responsibility of keeping her safe, not only sets the cause of children’s advocacy back a hundred years, but I believe the parish government commits ‘documentary’ sexual assault against the child by taking this position in a public record,” she remarked in a letter to parish attorneys," Carolyn McNabb, an area attorney and child advocate, stated in a lletter to parish attorneys. Hamilton is one among many locals harshly criticizing the parish’s victim-blaming, The parish’s defense “has no basis in law,” says Marci Hamilton, a sex crime victim advocate and professor at Benjamin Cardozo Law School in New York.
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