This letter was sent to The Sandersville Progress in response to owner Bob Tribble’s column.
Bob Tribble’s column on August 26, 2014 included a statement that isn’t accurate regarding the child victims of convicted Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Tribble wrote,”Some lost their virginity involuntarily by a man whom they once trusted.”
Victims don’t “voluntarily” do anything during a crime. None of Sandusky’s child victim’s “volunteered” to give up their virginity anymore than they willingly volunteered to be sodomized in the Penn State locker room showers.
I don’t care what Tribble thinks about whether Penn State’s players were unfairly penalized by the NCAA sanctions.
What I do care about is the fact that the person who profits from owning the legal publishing organ for Washington County, believes that a victim of rape or other sexual assaults, and a child victim at that, could voluntarily participate in those acts.
Rape is a crime. Victims aren’t volunteers.
Bob Tribble is wrong to state otherwise.