A middle schooler said she was raped. Then she was suspended from classes.

To school officials in Hobbs, this appeared to be an open-and-shut case. The two students had been dating before Larissa broke off their relationship in the weeks leading up to the incident behind the portables, according to her and her mother. Crucially, administrators who saw the video didn’t think she was fighting back or crying out — as Hobbs Municipal Schools Superintendent Gene Strickland described it to Searchlight, “the evidence that we were able to obtain did not indicate that the child was in distress.”

Oh the rape victim wasn’t properly distressed enough while she was raped?

Fucking idiots. This poor girl.

Every single time I see people bleating about cancel culture and rapists being cancelled unfairly, I think of girls like Larissa. How people claim this doesn’t happen, that we have rules in place, that rape victims are treated fairly…..it baffles me. There’s countless stories like these.

Hell, even in my corner of the PNW, a place that touts itself as a bastion of liberty and freedoms, we have had several teachers with credible accusations against them allowed to walk away with huge settlements and pick up other teaching jobs in different states. After sexually assaulting and raping students. And that’s not in the distant past, it’s right now.