Friday, March 8, 2013

Rape on College Campuses

Lately I have heard more and more stories of women being rapped and drugged and taken advantage of in college. And I am and have always been very aware of the danger that vulnerability can put a person in. I know never to leave my drink unattended or accept a drink from a stranger or walk around at night all alone, sober or not on a college campus and just in general. I've always been taught and thought that bad things rarely happen when you're doing the right thing and when you're doing what you're supposed to be doing. Talking to my cousin, who is a freshman and Mizzou, he told me multiple different story's of times when girls were found laying in the bushes half naked and passed out and his frat brothers attempted to help this girl who they didn't know and they had no idea what happened to her. Different story but even more frightening is that his friend was in the library one night studying for a test and got up to go to the bathroom and left her stuff where she was sitting. During this time that she was away from her studying someone put something in her water bottle and she didn't know that when she returned from the bathroom and drank from her water bottle. The next thing she remembered was waking up in an unfamiliar place not being able to remember how she got from the library to where she now was. She went right to the hospital, had a rape kit done and found out that she had been rapped. This is a girl who was doing the right thing, studying in the library. It sickens me to think that there are so many people out there who are capable of drugging people just to take advantage of them.

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