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Photo of couple engaging in public sex act actually picture of rape, female student says
As many as 10 witnesses tweeted photos and video of a man having oral sex with a woman outside of a bank according to students who broadcast the scene on Twitter. The woman photographed now tells police that she was a victim of sexual assault and no one intervened.
A university student photographed while appearing to be engaging in a public sex act near Ohio University's Athens campus tells police she was being raped as fellow students watched and uploaded pictures.
As many as 10 people watched and tweeted pictures and even a video of the act while describing both their shock and humor of the scene unfolding, according to students who broadcast the scene on Twitter.
The couple, described as being in their early 20s, is seen in several shots leaning against a Chase Bank window on Court Street - just a block from the Athens police station - as the man has oral sex with her.
Links to the pictures, since deleted, were immediately trumpeted on the Web, including by a university nightlife blog, Athens Tonight, and a woman who sent it to former Revenge Porn manager, Hunter Moore, while boasting of having witnessed the scene first hand.
The woman involved woke to the pictures the next day and reported the incident to police Sunday night, according to 10TV.
Athens Police Chief Tom Pyle now tells the station that the behavior by the people who saw it and did nothing to help is just as shocking, if not more.
"The community at large views this as they watched and witnessed a sexual assault occurring, and did nothing but watch," said Pyle. "But the flipside of that is that they may not have realized what they were witnessing."
After finishing the act a source told Total Frat Move that the couple posed for pictures with each other and bystanders.
Whether alcohol played a factor in the case is still under investigation.
If one of the participants was "mentally or physically incapacitated, whether due to alcohol, drugs or some other condition," it can be considered as cause for expulsion according to university policy.
Like police, Ohio student Allie Erwin says it's not the punishment that's surprising to her, it's her fellow students.
"Our first instinct as a community was not to intervene and help this woman but to post it on social media, and make a mockery of probably the most traumatic experience of her life," she told 10TV.
"All that needed to happen was to say, 'Hey are you alright? Is this what you want to be happening?'" she said. "She obviously wasn't OK with what happened. It was rape. She reported it to the police as rape."
Police say an investigation into the photos is still on going and they are speaking with both students involved to fully understand what happened.
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Only one day after news of the horrific double rape case cover-up in Maryville, Missouri, there's another alarming sexual assault case coming out of another school, this time at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Similarly to the victim in the Steubenville case, the alleged survivor became aware of her sexual assault after seeing it on social media site Instragram. That's right. This is a thing now. It was only after some of her fellow students literally live-tweeted the non-consensual oral sexual acts and posted it to Instagram, that she knew just what kind of public humiliation and personal violation she had experienced. Ryan Broderick at BuzzFeed took screen-shots since some of the tweets have since been deleted. Why this was tweeted in the first place, is baffling.
Someone even sent a photo to Hunter Moore, the man behind one of the biggest Revenge Porn websites, possibly to get him to share it too.
BuzzFeed reports that username @kal_vizuals also posted a video of the assault on his Instagram account. The screen-shot shows that one of the comments is "hahahaha" and that the video had already stacked up 43 "likes". Predictably, his account has now been deleted. An Ohio Nightlife account @Athens_Tonight also tweeted the picture, and then proceeded to remove it. Apparently, posting pictures of vulnerable and potentially intoxicated women is kind of their thing, since at the time when this article was written, this was their latest tweet.
The Ohio female who was allegedly assaulted on Saturday night went to the police on Sunday and filed a rape complaint. BuzzFeed reports that the police have seen the video and screen-shots and that they are using them as part of their investigation.
Although it isn't clear if the people involved in the alleged crime were Ohio University students, since the event took place during homecoming celebrations, Andrew Powers, the University Police Chief is leading the investigation. He told the school's newspaper, that he witnessed a lot of "victim-blaming behavior" on social media and while the alleged sexual assault was taking place. "What is more disturbing are the social implications of what it means for someone to have been standing there watching this thing happen, videotaping it with their phone instead of getting involved and trying to help the victim," Powers said.
This case, although still under investigation, bears many similarities with other horrifying cases that took place in Steubenville, Halifax, California, and now Maryville. It exposes a troubling trend that's becoming more and more visible across high schools and colleges in the United States. We now live in a culture where there is inherent virality in female rape and it spreads for all the wrong reasons. Whether it is the assailant who shares the video-graphic evidence, or whether it is by-standers, the reasoning behind capturing and sharing the sexual assault of a woman or girl is usually the same: it is in an effort to humiliate the victim, rather than shame the rapist. This exemplifies the persistence of victim-blaming, making the very real consequences it has on women and girls undeniable. For more on this trend, please read my more in-depth expose on viral rape.
What do you think of the rise of this trend? What explains it and can it be stopped? I want to hear from you. Let me know what you think on Twitter and Facebook
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Video of alleged rape was spread on Instagram, Twitter
A young woman and student at Ohio University reported a rape on Sunday after her alleged sexual assault was caught in photos and on video over the weekend.
Police in Athens, Ohio, are investigating the alleged rape and officers told the Ohio University Post that they have seen screenshots of the videos. The Post also explained that the university’s definition of consent excludes people who are “asleep or otherwise mentally or physically incapacitated, whether due to alcohol, drugs or some other condition.”
A university official told the Post the social media attention after the alleged assault was disturbing and that “there have been some real examples of some victim-blaming behavior.”
The videos spread like wildfire on social media with users writing comments like, “Holy Homecoming.” The images have since been scrubbed but BuzzFeed was able to capture them. They appear to depict a man performing oral sex on a woman on the street.
Allie Erwin, a senior at Ohio University and leader of student group F– Rape Culture, told Metro the incident has divided students on campus.
“Some of us are really angered and disappointed that no one intervened and they just filmed it,” she said. “Their first impulse was to share it on social media and make a mockery of something that was probably the worst thing that’s ever happened to her. There are other people who saw it as her asking for it and think it’s a joke. Basically they’re slut-shaming her for what happened.”
Erwin said it seems to her that more students are in the latter camp than the former. She also added, “The response on social media is kind of heartbreaking, how harsh and cruel people are being.”
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The woman involved woke to the pictures the next day and reported the incident to police Sunday night, according to 10TVPolice in Athens, Ohio, are investigating the alleged rape and officers told the Ohio University Post that they have seen screenshots of the videos. The Post also explained that the university’s definition of consent excludes people who are “asleep or otherwise mentally or physically incapacitated, whether due to alcohol, drugs or some other condition
Yep, a lot of this going around in schools. Female midshipman claims two Naval Academy Football players drugged and raped her. (see below) She did not know the assault took place until she was told.
2 Face Court-Martial in Naval Academy Assault Case - NYTimes.comwww.nytimes.com/.../2-ex-navy-football-players-face-court-martial-in-rape-case.html
6 days ago ... The men are accused in an assault on a female midshipman, a case stemming
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Student who took Ohio University sex pic says woman left with man after alleged assault
Vance Blanc, the 19-year-old who snapped of a couple engaged in a sex act, says the woman never asked the man to stop and that she left with him after the very-public encounter took place. The woman has since claimed she was raped during the incident.
A man who Tweeted a picture of a couple engaging in a public sex act near an Ohio University's campus says the woman — who claimed she was being raped — appeared to be enjoying herself and left with the man when it was through.
Vance Blanc, 19, told a campus newspaper that the woman "never said stop, she never struggled and she never asked for help" before reporting the act to Athens police as sexual assault the next day.
"She seemed like she was enjoying it, so I guess for everyone there it was like 'OK, it's not assault. It's not rape,'" the freshmen business major told the student-run Post.
However the woman's consciousness and her ability to give consent to the act being performed on her is now being investigated by police.
"It was obvious that both the man and woman were very, very drunk," Blanc said of her condition, which he acknowledges could have impaired her judgment - as well as the participating man's.
Never at any point did he or many of the others who had gathered to watch feel that the woman involved was being held against her will, he said.
"I know rumors said 10, but there were way more than 10 ... 20, 30 people just crowding around," he said of the others, who have since been criticized by police and students as doing nothing to help.
The Post claims that a video taken of the act shows the man performing oral sex on the woman against the side of the building as she flips her hair and holds onto the back of his head.
Witnesses are reportedly heard off camera offering mixed reaction to what was taking place.
"How can you not film this?" says one witness, according to The Post.
Another reportedly chastises the man's behavior while calling him a slut.
"That is literally f--ked up that you're pulling her vagina out right here. You're a slut. Should we start a line right here?" the faceless man allegedly says.
It was the claimed "shock factor" that Blanc says made him snap a photo of the couple and upload it to Twitter.
"It was something I'd never seen before. It was never meant to embarrass or harm anyone," he said of his motive.
The unidentified man pictured in the photo didn't walk away so easily when it was through though, as Blanc now reveals.
Blanc said that two men watching the scene unfold expressed wanting to beat up the guy for what he was doing to her.
They did, he said, before running from the scene.
Blanc said it was about 15 to 20 minutes later after he and his friend left the scene that they saw the couple walking down Court Street. The man's face was visibly bloody.
Blanc's friend allegedly asked the guy if he was okay. He said he was.
The man and woman continued to walk together according to Blanc before entering the same apartment building nearby.
"Obviously alcohol was a big part in this," Blanc told the paper.
He defended not knowing she was in as much danger as she now tells police.
If he did, he says he wouldn't have acted the way he did.
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