Comments on: Go Here, Read This http://www.femilicious.com/blog/2008/09/08/go-here-read-this/ Fri, 18 May 2012 10:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Candace http://www.femilicious.com/blog/2008/09/08/go-here-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-114517 Candace Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:50:24 +0000 http://www.femilicious.com/blog/2008/09/08/go-here-read-this/#comment-114517 That part made me ill. The whole thing makes me boil. When I wrote the post I did a quick flickr search for photos tagged Maria Goretti. The second photo that came up was a little girl at St. Maria Goretti Preschool in Phoenix, Arizona playing with a miniature altar (something she will never be allowed to do when she grows up). How anyone could send their daughter there blows my mind. That part made me ill. The whole thing makes me boil. When I wrote the post I did a quick flickr search for photos tagged Maria Goretti. The second photo that came up was a little girl at St. Maria Goretti Preschool in Phoenix, Arizona playing with a miniature altar (something she will never be allowed to do when she grows up). How anyone could send their daughter there blows my mind.

]]> By: Jodi http://www.femilicious.com/blog/2008/09/08/go-here-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-114516 Jodi Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:44:51 +0000 http://www.femilicious.com/blog/2008/09/08/go-here-read-this/#comment-114516 The scariest part of that whole sad thing? This: "Pennsylvania law states (or had stated) that rape victims must prove their physical resistance to rape so that their rapists can be prosecuted. This was unofficially referred to as the "Maria Goretti law."" Great, so her death has supposedly put an end to the practice in Italy of a man raping a girl he wants to marry in order to ensure nobody else will offer for her. Nice to know that here in the New World her death has been used to make being raped that much more of an ordeal for victims, eh? The scariest part of that whole sad thing? This:

“Pennsylvania law states (or had stated) that rape victims must prove their physical resistance to rape so that their rapists can be prosecuted. This was unofficially referred to as the “Maria Goretti law.”"

Great, so her death has supposedly put an end to the practice in Italy of a man raping a girl he wants to marry in order to ensure nobody else will offer for her. Nice to know that here in the New World her death has been used to make being raped that much more of an ordeal for victims, eh?

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