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17-year-old sexual assault victim could face charges for tweeting names of attackers
Frustrated by what she felt was a lenient plea bargain for two teens who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her and circulating pictures of the incident, a Louisville 17-year-old lashed out on Twitter.
“There you go, lock me up,” Savannah Dietrich tweeted, as she named the boys who she said sexually assaulted her. “I’m not protecting anyone that made my life a living Hell.”
Now, Dietrich is facing a potential jail sentence, as the attorneys for the boys have asked a Jefferson District Court judge to hold her in contempt because they say that in naming her attackers, she violated the confidentiality of a juvenile hearing and the court’s order not to speak of it.
Metprof
July 22nd, 2012
Poor misunderstood young children. By all means let’s protect their privacy.
Doc6666
July 22nd, 2012
I’ve read various stories about this, nobody will say if the perps were jocks.
It would seem that the judge being a female would give a tougher sentence (which amounts to probation).
The real culprit in this is the DA, no self-respecting DA would have agreed to this thing in the first place.
The girl going public deserves a Presidential Freedom Medal.
Chieftain
July 22nd, 2012
They say men who have no fear soon come to have no shame.
This is the kind of political correctness that is killing us.
Unneutral
July 22nd, 2012
Hell yes, protect the guilty from public ridicule.
They should not only be ridiculed, they should be locked in a public stockade so they can be pelted with rotten tomatoes, feces and spit.
Katechon's Ghost
July 22nd, 2012
Go Girl!
In ancient Germany, a friend told me, punishment was the exposure to shame and public ridicule.
Rightwingfeather
July 22nd, 2012
Good for her! I support her decision to name her attackers. She is a brave young woman.
Troy
July 22nd, 2012
Hmmm, me-thinks this girl is a “white-hispanic” and the attackers are black.
Just sayin?
grayscape
July 22nd, 2012
Why do progtard lawyers hate women and rape victims so much?
Troy
July 22nd, 2012
The rapists’ names are:
(1) WILL FREY III
(2) AUSTIN ZEHNDER
As a born and raised Louisvillian, I know how f’ed up our court system was.
And no, this is not a Brian Ross, reporting job!
Anonymous
July 22nd, 2012
If she doesn’t prevail in this, really how far are we from Sharia ?
Weldor
July 22nd, 2012
If I were her father, she wouldn’t need to seek her own justice.
Isobel Ingoldesthorpe
July 22nd, 2012
You go, girl!
I don’t think this girl will spend five minute sin jail, but even the threat of it, AND the act of protecting those sleaze balls, is atrocious and disgraceful.
Aside form that I thought I read somewhere she had no part in the “agreement,” so she had no opportunity to voice her disagreement to keeping their stupid names out of the media.
I hope their names become known all across the land.
Bad Brad
July 22nd, 2012
Welder, exactly. Hopefully she tweeted to her father, and now there’s just a couple grease spots on the ground.
Robert Fine
July 22nd, 2012
The problem is she violated a court order restraining her from naming the names. Speech in violation of a court order is not protected by the First Amendment. She needed to have appealed the court order (or waited out the process of trial). On the other hand, a law that restricts speech can be violated. But again, this was a court order she violated, not a law. (It’s called the “collateral bar” rule: you cannot appeal a violation of a court order prohibiting speech with a subsequent First Amendment claim.)
Good reading it from a very authoritative source:
http://www.volokh.com/2012/07/22/the-dark-side-of-privacy/
Troy
July 22nd, 2012
I applaud her conviction. F-that asshole judge.
She is prepared to go to jail for her convictions.
Sorry Robert, but to hell with that legalease bullshit.
This is still America. What made this country great was people standing up for what is right. A lesson our Supreme Court could use these days.
Bob M.
July 22nd, 2012
She needs to get a couple hard, pipe-hittin’ honkies, to go to work on homes’s there, with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.
Let ‘em go positively MEDIEVAL on their asses…
>:->
Bad Brad
July 22nd, 2012
Robert. Court order my ass. Let’s go with god a man. Killem a couple times.
Troy
July 22nd, 2012
I like your line of thought Bob. I may have to fire up the Blu-ray Pulp Fiction tonight, have me an adult beverage and just sit back and shake my head at this f-ed up world turned upside-down.
Stirrin the B.S.
July 22nd, 2012
Shades of Ann Barnhardt. This judge added insult to this poor girl’s injury. Take a stand and make statement young lady – you will be a better person for it!
OzarksAbe
July 22nd, 2012
Eons ago when the media performed journalism, the standard was not to print the name of the victim in a crime such as a sexual assault.
It the accused were juveniles, their names could not be provided by the police/prosecutors. But if the names were obtained from independent and confirmed sources, and by gosh you had better be right, go to print with the names.
It’s not slander if it’s the truth.
And since I don’t know how to confirm Troy’s comment, I shall refer back to him.
simply enraged
July 22nd, 2012
Henry VI, Part II, Act IV…
Pickled Liver
July 22nd, 2012
Good going Savannah! Laws and the Judge’s decisions have recently been against all we hold dear. Tough shit if she violated the confidentiality of the juveniles. They’ll get over their pain a lot sooner than she will !
old_oaks
July 23rd, 2012
Just look at her glasses = PROGTARD TO THE MAX!
Bad Brad
July 23rd, 2012
Oak, come on. She’s freaken 17 and got sexually assaulted. She’s to young to know what a freaken PROGTARD is. So it’s ok if 17 year old progtards get raped? I know you better than that dude.
Doc
July 23rd, 2012
This juvenile age limit bullshit needs to be changed. These little assholes are well aware of what they are doing by the age of 10. I say FUKEM! Lock their ass up in adult prison and print their names in the paper and put their pictures on TV.
old_oaks
July 23rd, 2012
OK Brad, so you’re saying KY laws are flawed? Sorry not buying this pond scum idea of raking folks over the coals when the law doesn’t work to their advantage. Because I can think of other situations where you and I agree the law works and we don’t want the same thing happening.
I am completely non-judgmental of the individuals in my opinion of the matter. It is a damn shame this type of case is even being debated!
But the law is the law.
Bad Brad
July 23rd, 2012
Who’s law bro. If it’s not right, it’s not right. I have a daughter, older and married now. But I can tell you without hesitation if she was sexually molested at that age, maybe I’d still be in jail, but somebodies dying.
old_oaks
July 23rd, 2012
That’s you and I… I have a daughter as well, only younger.
Problem is, I pummel the shit out of John Q. Raper, the law doesn’t work to my advantage… Not saying I wouldn’t anyway, because I probably would.
Bad Brad
July 23rd, 2012
Oak, as usual, we are on the same page. There’s nothing more precious then a mans daughter.
old_oaks
July 23rd, 2012
Nope she’s my princess!
My only point here is we can change law, but we cannot change law to suit the situation.
charlotte
July 23rd, 2012
http://www.facebook.com/HelpSavannahDietrich
Go and see what these rapists look like-quick before it is taken down
Roscoe P. Soultrane
July 23rd, 2012
Mayhap not the best picture for a sexual assault related article….
House of Kell
July 23rd, 2012
In my day, the ‘men’ of the family would have taken care of all of this…..
Bob M.
July 23rd, 2012
Well I’m just all broken up, over these young ‘gentlemen’s’ civil… ‘rights’…
… not …
beachmom
July 23rd, 2012
Good for her! Brave girl.
Her name is all over the place so why shouldn’t theirs be?
OzarksAbe
July 23rd, 2012
Adult crimes deserve adult punishment, including the dissemination of public information.
Support the victim, coddling the perpetrators will only lead them to more criminal behavior.
Dukenik
July 23rd, 2012
So the convicted rapists have not been sentenced but the judge is threatening to put the victim in jail?
Punishing the rape victim is what is done in the barbaric sharia compliant countries.
BILL
July 23rd, 2012
The citizens of this country are all cowards if they let this girl go to jail for this bs!
TaterSalad
July 23rd, 2012
Take this to trial and she will be found Not Guilty ………hands down. I hope I am on the jury.
Czar of Defenestration
July 23rd, 2012
HAPPY END: She WON’T be charged:
http://www.conservativecommune.com/2012/07/teen-who-tweeted-names-of-sexual-assailants-not-to-be-charged/