Violée à 16 ans et détestée dans sa ville...

Une autre de ces trop nombreuses histoires choquantes qui vous font douter de la nature humaine. Une journaliste du Washington Post a retrouvé la trace d'Amber Wyatt, une jeune femme qui affirme avoir été violée en 2006 et qui a été confrontée à la réaction haineuse des habitants de sa ville. Alors âgée de 16 ans la jeune Wyatt traversera un véritable enfer après avoir dénoncé deux sportifs de son école. On ne s'est pas contenté de mettre sa parole en doute ou d'exiger des preuves, elle fut victime d'une véritable campagne de salissage... La journaliste lui offre ici un dossier complet de son enquête réalisée des années plus tard en espérant que ça puisse être utile. D'une profonde tristesse, cette histoire fait ressortir la nécessité de continuer à informer et à supporter les victimes. Combien de fois a-t-on ignoré ou rejeté des histoires de ce genre?

 "So I look back uneasily, unconvinced that we have come such a long way after all. Because there will always be opportunities to do evil and evil opportunists. There will always be acts of cruelty prepackaged with plausible deniability, or the easy cover of crowds to disperse responsibility. There will always be people nobody believes: people with lesser reputations, people who struggle with addiction, people without much capital, social or otherwise, to credit them. And there will always be cases of offenses that are real and true but hard to prosecute, which means that justice in the world — if it’s to exist at all — will have to take some other form than the formalized and official, and peace will have to arise from some other reckoning than a proper settling of accounts.

 This is my imperfect offering toward that end: a record of what happened, and the willingness to have been troubled by it all these years. It still troubles me now — it will always be unresolved — and I hope that it troubles you, because the moral conscience at ease accomplishes nothing.

Wyatt doesn’t have much interest in pressing for a trial or other remedy after all this time. Even if she did, it would be impossible; Lucero’s files indicate that all the physical evidence relating to Wyatt’s case was destroyed — common with no-billed cases — in 2009. All that remains are the urban legends and the memories, the wounds and their scars, a stack of documents in a Texas public safety office, what you know now, and the hope that you will carry it with you into the world."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/opinions/arlington-texas/?utm_term=.27a2533d2bc6