Cenk Uygur
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Rape Victim Bullied By High School Football Fans
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March 21, 2013
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5:46Now Playing"Two football player high school students in Connecticut are charged with the second-degree sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl. The allegations come amid other complaints of hazing at the school, but Torrington High School officials insist that these are individual instances and not a part of a larger cultural problem."*
Boys will be boys? Has it become ingrained in out culture to rally around alleged teen rapists (if they're athletes) and shun and bully rape victims? This story, very reminiscent of the Steubenville case, has taken over a small Connecticut town. Why are the victims being blamed? And why do perpetrators get a free pass? Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) discuss.
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