College Rape Cases: A Dime a Dozen
Today, it was announced that a player from Georgia Tech, Jerrard Tarrent, has been charged with raping a girl in an dorm room this past April. She reported the incident the next morning, although the charges are just now hitting the media.
Now don’t get me wrong - I don’t know his unknown accuser. What she is saying could be very real and very serious, and if so, my heart goes out to this girl.
On the other hand, I don’t know Tarrent either. When it comes to rape, it seems like the person is always guilty until proven innocent instead of the other way around. I’m in no way saying that rape shouldn’t be taken seriously. At the same time, it seems that these days, rape is a dime a dozen on college campus.
That means one of two things: there are a lot of men disrespecting women or there are a lot of women lying to “get back” at men.
Unfortunately, although many rapes are real, in my experiences, most of the people who have cried rape have been lying. At my small college, for example, there was a girl who called rape her senior year. There wasn’t proof of anything, since she reported it a few days after the fact, and the case was ultimately dropped. Later that year, she actually started dating the guy she claimed had raped her. Do you think she was telling the truth about the rape or trying to get his attention?
Unfortunately for that guy, he was kicked off a sports team and the sneaky looks and gossip behind his back went on until the day he graduated. No one wanted to party with him, especially alone.
In any case, what I’m whole-heartedly suggesting is that Tarrent is innocent until proven guilty, and I hope everyone will treat him as such. He was a potential starting cornerback for Georgia Tech, and that’s been taken away, as he’s be suspended from the football team already.
I mean no disrespect to anyone who’s been raped. If he forced himself on this girl, I hope that the legal system brings him to justice, and I hope he has trouble living with himself. But if, like is too often the case, he didn’t rape her? I hope that he’ll be able to work past these charges and have a successful football career.
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