Hat tip to Femisex

As The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind wrote in her Daily Beast article It Could Have Been Your Daughter:

Here’s what the Richmond case signifies, plain and simple: Gender-based assault has become an acceptable norm in our country.

The The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting (our emphasis added):

The group of about a dozen boys and young men was already well into 2 gallons of vodka. After they liquored up the girl with brandy, they proposed sex, according to several accounts by friends of those who were there but asked not to be named for fear of retaliation.

The girl said no. Some of the men placed her on one of the two red cement benches set alongside the main brick building of the school and said they were going to have sex anyway, according to the accounts.

“They had her down on the bench and the bitch tried to kick ‘Tweak’ (one of the men) in the nuts,” said one young man, who said he had a first-hand account of the attack from Smith but was afraid of being named. “He went off on her, started hitting her, and then it was on. They pulled a train (a gang initiation-style rape, one after the other) on her.”

What ensued was 2 1/2 hours of beatings and raping, at times with a foreign object. The scene attracted onlookers, some calling others over by cell phone, and eventually there were as many as 10 men or boys sexually assaulting the girl while another 20 looked on, laughing and snapping pictures. Teachers and students were searching last week for at least one video that many said was filmed of the attack.

And a local teacher added this (our emphasis added):

That such a girl could be so brutalized speaks more to a pack mentality, stoked by booze and street machismo, than it does to the general character of Richmond High’s youths, Price said.

“Those boys who did what they did weren’t picturing that girl as a human,” she said. “I think you see these kinds of boys at a lot of high schools – so desensitized it was like they saw her as a toy. Boys like that – there aren’t many like them, but they can be so hard. All they needed was something to set them off.”

This young woman was nothing more than an object worthy of violence at the whim of a group of men. This speaks volumes to how our country views the acceptable nature of this attack.

Where are our political leaders to speak out about this atrocity?