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Been seeing this one make the rounds on FB, with the usual predictable responses:
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest...100000.ece

"We need to teach boys not to rape"
"Rapists should get more than 6 months"

etc etc ad nauseum

Some lovely details abound in this example of extreme competitive hamstering:

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In the spring of 2013, my daughter, Willa, was raped by a fellow student at her college in Washington, D.C. A freshman at the time, she did not tell anyone until a year later. Meanwhile, she developed post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, depression and an addiction to alcohol. And while she chose not to file criminal charges — out of fear of being traumatized again — she struggled so much after the attack that ultimately she had to leave school.

First of all, congrats on attention-whoring through your daughter.

She developed PTSD over the course of a year because of a rape...

There certainly was no rape. What's entirely likely, is Willa here got caught up in the typical higher education experience of partying and drunken sex with too many partners. PTSD? Panic attacks? Depression? Sounds like a number of young women I've been with that needed to drink before having sex.

Willa is an alcoholic slut. Not a rape victim.

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The financial burdens of an attack can be overwhelming. A 2014 White House report noted that the cost to survivors (of all types, not just college students) can range from $87,000 to $240,776 per rape. While the numbers are staggering, they seem abstract until your family is the one paying the bills. In our case, they were on the higher end of the range, and included:

Someone at the White House gets paid to generate these "reports"?
Fuck, we need Trump BAD.

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$105,000 Cost of three years of lost wages, starting now, that Willa would have earned if she had graduated on time in May. I’m assuming that a college-educated woman would have earned at least $35,000 a year.

35k/year. Let me guess; electrical engineer? Business administration? Neurosurgeon? For 35k a year I'm guessing Art History Major working part time as a Starbucks barista. For fuck's sake the servers I work with make 60-80k per year with zero education required.

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$40,000 Cost of lost wages, me. This is also an estimate, but during the time that Willa struggled with severe PTSD, I had to turn down assignments, cancel trips and take days off to care for her.

Loss of $40k over 3 years...if this isn't a case against being a mainstream media writer then I don't know what is.

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$23,491.98 Cost of a 45-day stay at a residential treatment center for trauma and addiction (the latter of which Willa developed after her assault, as a way to numb the pain). The upfront cost was $54,300, and Willa’s dad and I had to cover this. We received $30,808.02 in reimbursement from our insurance company.

$23,400 Cost of a six-month addiction rehab after-care program, which included $1,900 per month for living expenses, and $12,000 to cover the remainder of our annual health insurance deductible. The program accepted our insurance for the rest.

$22,408.68 Cost of lost tuition for one semester, one attempted semester and one summer school session that she attended, all after her attack. During this time, Willa earned credit for just one class. Life is wildly complex, so I can’t say with certainty that Willa’s sexual assault caused her academic decline. Before the rape, however, she had a 3.6 grade point average and was on the dean’s list. After it, she routinely earned F’s and incompletes. As she struggled through these last three semesters, we paid $23,528.68 (and also received financial aid). For the last summer session, the school reimbursed us $1,120.

Alcohol is a hell of a drug. How nice to have a scapegoat in the form of an anonymous young man somewhere to blame your daughter's alcoholism on. The lack of accountability here is astonishing.

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$12,328.71 Cost of therapists’ bills, for our daughter to see four different therapists as we tried to find the right match. We paid $20,546, and insurance reimbursed us $8,217.29.

$8,400 Approximate cost of travel for me, for three emergency trips to Washington from my home in California, and four trips to Arizona, where our daughter went to rehab.

$4,823.98 Cost of psychiatrists’ bills, for Willa to see two psychiatrists. We paid $6,985, and insurance reimbursed us $2,161.02.

$3,630 Cost of attention-deficit disorder testing. Before Willa told anyone about the rape, she was unable to concentrate on her studies, and asked to be tested for A.D.D. The upfront cost was $3,750; insurance reimbursed us $120.

$1,840.28 Cost, after insurance reimbursement, of the several trips Willa took to the emergency room for panic attacks.

$250 Cost of a visit to a dermatologist, unreimbursed by insurance, for a “hair loss” consult, after Willa lost half her hair from stress.

The amount of outpouring of support for this financially irresponsible psycho is shocking to me. Actually, it isn't. PTSD, ADD, you sure that's it Supermom? So nice to know that Obamacare is being used responsibly here. To think that millions of Americans are penalized for not buying into a Healthcare plan when money is being used like this for damaged-goods party sluts that belong firmly in the reject pile.

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I should be clear: I would have done anything, made any financial sacrifices, to see the light again in my daughter’s eyes (which is there now, thanks to Willa’s hard work and the many caring professionals who helped her). I recently went through a divorce, however, and my former husband and I are writers, not investment bankers. These are big costs for us; at times, we had to borrow from family or retirement funds, or use proceeds from the sale of the house we gave up in the divorce.

A-HA! NOW we get to the meat of the article. The lost light in a girl's eyes...have we discussed that before? The dead stare? The 1,000 cock stare? Mom here recently went through a divorce and sold the house this girl grew up in. Let me guess, there was no spark in the marriage anymore, dad has no balls, daughter has no solid father figure. I'm just going out on a limb here.

But there's no possible way that has anything to do with this girl's mental issues. Zero. None.

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This fall, Willa will start her sophomore year, at the age of 22, at a different school. In addition to tuition, we’ll be paying $3,500 a month for her to live in a sober dorm nearby. It’s approximately $25,000 more than we would have spent if she lived in a regular dorm for two semesters, but the structured environment will provide the extra care and support she needs as she returns to a place she’s hesitant to go: a college campus.

22 and a sophomore to land that sweet sweet gig at Starbuck's. Ouch. This deluded hamster needs to take a serious account of possibilities for her daughter, rather than writing her a blank check to make more terrible decisions.

Also, $3,500 a month to live in a fucking dorm? Does that include a private chef and maid service? $3,500 a month in L.A. gets you a sick 2 bedroom apartment in Marina Del Rey with hardwood floors like this one. GTFO with that shit, when I was 22 I shared an apartment for $450/month that I paid myself.

This article is a prime example of exactly what's wrong in this country today on so many fronts. First step in Making America Great Again is not giving a voice or credibility to utter nonsense like this drivel. For what it's worth I would love to see a hit piece on ROK on this "writer":