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An excerpt from the article by Kerry Richards and Anna Joseph:
Dershowitz denies abusing the child trafficking victim; yet instead of acknowledging the gravity of the crime and showing compassion - even while denying involvement - Dershowitz's response has been shockingly vicious and sexist. In a recent interview, Dershowitz said his accuser was "a prostitute," and questioned her fitness as a mother. He went on to admit he had no qualms about calling a 15-year-old girl a prostitute, claiming "[s]he was not victimized ... she made her own decisions in life." Those are decisions that the law says no 15-year-old is old enough to make. One day after that interview, 38 Harvard Law School professors joined the many well-connected people who have tried to protect Dershowitz and [convicted sex offender Jeffrey] Epstein, releasing an open letter lauding Dershowitz's "courage."
Where is the focus on the plaintiff's courage? On her horrifying experience, and on the experiences of the millions of other minors bought and sold for sex each year? When rape victims do come forward, where is the focus on ensuring we don't re-victimize them in the media?
Brutalized by Epstein, betrayed by federal prosecutors who refused to pursue justice, Jane Doe #3 was then publicly shamed by Dershowitz. Shaming rape and human trafficking victims compounds injustice, violating those who report and discouraging others from doing so.
Comment: At no time is a 15-year old capable of such a decision. Dershowitz has such disdain for the victim. An enduring trait of pathological individuals is their chronic avoidance of any responsibility for the negative reactions that normal people have to violent, egregious behavior.
Pedophilia is a global epidemic with connections in high places all over the world. See:
Reader Comments
Poster boy for US perverted elitism
38 Harvard professional creeps laud the perp's "courage".
Picking on a 15 year old is not courageous - it is disgusting, vile, and psychopathic in the extreme. It is the behavior of bullies, of pedophiles, of elitists.
This man is a plague, all by himself. Beating him seems too mild a solution.
Hypocritical Bunch of A**H***S!
As an attorney, he surely is aware of ancient / common law / common sense and statutorily codified principles such as:
"Age of Consent"
"Statutory Rape"
"Strict liability Offense" I.e., even if victim lies & claims she's 19, she can't give legal consent.
I'm being redundant, but what a hypocritical A**H***, along with each and all of those ass-kissing 'supporters' /co-signatories saluting? his "courage?" WTF???
Aargh!
R.C.
It makes me wonder about the safety of any under age relatives that he has.
Of course if the authorities have wondered about it too, they wont check, they wont dare, they'll just take his word for it.