• originalucifer
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    1393 days ago

    its kinda gross how far the media will go to not use the word rape… especially in this context

      • @Buske@lemmy.world
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        52 days ago

        99% of media/news is own’d by his friends. and his followers know what he has done, but they see it as a plus. Dont worry they can just pray to sky daddy for them to forgive them of their sins before they die so they too can go be with jesus or something stupid.

    • @procrastitron@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      They’re not lawyers, though… they’re reporters.

      They’re just reporting what the prosecutors accused the person of and if the prosecutor didn’t use the term “statutory rape” then the reporters probably shouldn’t either.

      They don’t want to get the reporting wrong if they aren’t experts on the subject and even more so the don’t want to expose themselves to lawsuits if they do get the reporting wrong.

      I really don’t think the reporters are trying to minimize the heinousness of the crime (at least not in this case). It looks more like they are just being conservative in what they state.

        • @procrastitron@lemmy.world
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          93 days ago

          That’s true but the same issue applies to both the article (which doesn’t use the term “statutory rape”), and the editor (who likely doesn’t have any legal expertise).