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(TRUE STORY!) Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer (HB/DJ-1st ED) #LLP60mjk

The DOJ investigated 350 sexual assaults reported to the Missoula police between January 2008 and May 2012.

Few of these assaults were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical. A DOJ report released in December of 2014 estimates 110,000 women between the ages of 18 and 24 are raped each year.

Acquaintance rape is a crime like no other. If the case goes to trial, the woman's entire personal life becomes fair game for defense attorneys. This brutal reality goes a long way towards explaining why acquaintance rape is the most underreported crime in America. Some of them went to the police. Some declined to go to the police, or to press charges, but sought redress from the university, which has its own, non-criminal judicial process when a student is accused of rape.

In two cases the police agreed to press charges and the district attorney agreed to prosecute. One case led to a conviction; one to an acquittal. Those women courageous enough to press charges or to speak publicly about their experiences were attacked in the media, on Grizzly football fan sites, and/or to their faces.

The University expelled 3 of the accused rapists, but one was reinstated by state officials in a secret proceeding. One district attorney testified for an alleged rapist at his university hearing. She later left the prosecutor's office and successfully defended the Grizzlies' star quarterback in his rape trial.

The horror of being raped, in each woman's case, was magnified by the mechanics of the justice system and the reaction of the community.

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