Word: victimness
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...protesters were being bussed in and festival-goers were being frisked. Neither occurred, but the credits to the Jan. 22 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Hounddog might as well have included the tag line: "Dakota Fanning was not harmed in the making of this movie." Fanning, 12, plays a victim of sexual abuse who finds comfort in Elvis Presley music in the film, which has been condemned by religious groups and child advocates as child pornography. Former child actors, like Alison Arngrim (Nellie from Little House on the Prairie) and Paul Peterson (Donna Reed's son) told reporters that Fanning...
...that the graphic recording of a man writhing in agony, begging for mercy as he is sodomized with a cane and verbally abused by men identified in an official investigation as police officers, is believed to have been disseminated by those same officers in a bid to humiliate the victim and intimidate his colleagues. On the recording, one of two officers due to stand trial in March over the incident is heard telling the victim, "Everybody in the parking lot will see this tomorrow...
...Israelis, her name is simply "A," a former staffer in the office of Israeli President Moshe Katsav, known to the nation through press photographs depicting her shapely figure and streaky blonde hair, yet keeping her face hidden. That's because the anonymous Ms. "A" looks set to be the victim in a rape trial, in which - if it goes ahead - the defendant will be the president himself...
...rules are different in civil cases. Since the government isn't a party, it cares less whether the victim comes forward, and so it leaves the issue of anonymity up to the judge. When Bryant's accuser sued him for damages, she was told she had to use her real name. Like Lynch, the judge in that case decided "public confidence in the results of court proceedings require[s] that they be open to observation," accuser's privacy be damned...
Even in cases of rape, anonymity may not help the victim. People often feel they have lost control of their lives after a sexual attack, and identifying themselves publicly can revive a sense of control, says Lynn Parrish of the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, which counsels victims. "It allows them to say, 'This is who I am, this happened to me, and I am not going to allow [the attacker] to victimize me again by making me keep this inside,'" she explains...