Just when you think …
Posted: October 29, 2010 Filed under: Women's Rights 10 Comments
This IndyPosted news blurb has got me remembering how you should never underestimate how low human behavior can go. This bothers me on so many levels that it’s hard to even start with one, but as the mother of two young women, this just terrifies me.
My biggest questions is where did this horrible person learn to do this and is there a hole deep enough where they can let him spend the rest of his life? Perhaps the Chileans could be convinced to re-open that mine especially for him?
Jealous Boyfriend Waterboards Gal Pal
A suspicious boyfriend who wanted to find out if his girlfriend was cheating on him treated her like a Taliban prisoner by tying her to a couch in the apartment they shared and started waterboarding her.
Waterboarding is a torture that has been used in the military in which a prisoner’s head is tilted back, covered with cloth before water is poured on the face of the prisoner. Now Trevor Case, 22, is facing charges of domestic assault, false imprisonment, and making terrorist threats
It’s just hard to imagine what kind of combination of genes and upbringing would lead a person to behave like this.
Again, how did he learn to do this?
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Horrifying. I don’t even know what to say with violence and sadism like this…
Same reaction as Delphyne here. They learn this from military culture and male culture in general. If it can be done to the Taliban, it can be done to the domestic “enemy” – women. In the military, men are even taught how to inflict a beating without leaving bruises.
Sickening.
“Faces charges of DOMESTIC assault” That’s part of the problem. How is this not just plain out and out assault?
People who do these things are sociopaths. It’s all about them and they are the victim and are justified to do whatever it takes that they can dream up and YOU are wrong, over sensitive, deserved it, pushed them to it if you complain even to the point of murdering someone. There’s a book called “Why Does He Do That” by Lundy Bancroft that we give out at the women’s shelter…Lundy has laid out for every lay person in the easiest to absorb fashion what’s going on with these types of men. Their tactics and thinking patterns are exactly in keeping with pathological narcissists and sociopaths. Their is no reason to try and “work with them” or “understand them” except to protect and educate others.
Sadly, this type incident is all to common. I often wonder if even the local newspapers actually reported EVERY domestic violence charge brought what would happen? I’d wonder what it is going to take before governments get really serious about addressing issues of violence against women.
Thanks for the book title, AliceP….will look it up!
That’s what I think too — this is assault. Period.
People read ‘domestic assault’ and their eyes glaze over and they think ‘oh, she deserved it.’ Or ‘oh, that’ll never happen to me.’ Or ‘oh, I’m a guy that’ll never do that.’ And so on.
It should just be called assault. It should be punished as straight up assault, with perhaps a hate crime penalty thrown in. It should not have a different name because it’s something done mostly to women.
Absolutely. Is there really a legal category of “domestic assault” as opposed to straight up assault, and if so, are the legal penalties for it different?
I agree about the hate crime penalty. So many assaults against women are just out and out anti female hate crimes.
In this state, and this is just from looking at the news, I don’t know true statistics, but it seems that ‘domestic violence’ is punished less severely than regular old run of the mill violence. I hate the label because of that, because it automatically signals something that doesn’t really matter, because it’s ‘domestic’.
Grrr, that amkes me mad 😡 . Fact is, domestic violence *is* run of the mill violence, in that it is one of the most common, if not the most common, forms of violence.