Waiting for the outrage

Originally Posted by greenberetTFS

You know which one I'm talking about........ We get a lot of unusual news even down here in the sticks when they are indeed not ordinary like this one........

Big Teddy

Sorry Teddy, but I'm not a mind reader.

Crimes against the elderly (the weak) are not unusual, not even rape. Maybe you just don't hear about it because like this one they didn't happen in your neck of the woods. Heck at least half the people in the US couldn't point out Tulsa on a map if their life depended on it (maybe 1 in 500,000 could find Carriere, MS) so why would they be interested in a local crime committed there?

[Richard]

Originally Posted by greenberetTFS

I'm sure we all know "WHY" this hasn't made MSM and never will.

This happened several months ago - and - you don't think FOX or AP (who both reported the story) are MSM news organizations?

Do a search and you'll find they happen all over the country, and are commonly reported more as a regional than a national or global news event.

And so it goes...

Richard

Most cases of rape of the elderly are not reported to the police

"A study of older rape victims (age range of 55-87; mean age of 68.8) it was found that:

• 79% were attacked by strangers;
• Most attacks were in the victim’s home, after the perpetrator broke in or got in under false pretenses;
• 9.4% of the victims reported the rape to the police, compared to 24.5% of a control group of women aged 18-43;
• 50.9% of the older women sustained genital injuries, compared with 13.2% of the control group. Of the women who suffered genital injuries, 37% were severe enough to require surgical repair."

Muram, D., Miller, K. & Cutler, A. “Sexual Assault of the Elderly Victim.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, March, 1992, pp. 70-76.