unreal,

Yes, wisconsinheat-I understand what you are saying. But-I said “while apparently ignoring the rape allegation”. (If I could underline here, I would have underlined the word APPARENTLY). I believe it’s not up to us to determine when a story is too trivial to print, but, unless it’s breaking news, especially that which might be of immediate importance to our safety, I wish they wouldn’t print a story (this old) without adding detail to keep possibly false assumptions from being made. It could/should have said the rape allegations were still under investigation, or proved to be false, or whatever took place, but it didn’t do that-thereby making me believe there was no investigation made. Sometimes what is left out of a story (especially this one) can be just as important as what’s put in, (don’t you think?) And, the “alleged” victim wanted her name used so she could get her story out, but it doesn’t seem to have been all of the story she must have intended. I hope you did see that I tried to use the words “alleged” and “apparently” in the proper places in that post to suggest other possible scenarios. It’s because the story did nothing to enlighten me about what they might have been like it should have.
But about the library fine story-the headline did say “Overdue Books Bring Jail Time”, but that was not exactly accurate-it gave me the impression that when they pulled her over for some light being out “they discovered a warrant had been issued for her arrest because she failed to appear in court for a municipal citation”. Again, if I could have, I would have underlined “she failed to appear in court”. It didn’t look like they were actively seeking her out, though (in either case).

I think some clarification is needed on a couple of comments by RUSerious.
In the library book caper, she actually was incarcerated for failure to pay the fine and restitution. For municipal citations such as this, (failure to return library material), a court appearance is not mandatory. A court date is given, but if one chooses not to appear, a fine and costs is levied in default. That appears to be what happened in that case.
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Now in this case, RUSerious writes, "they put her in jail, while apparently ignoring the rape allegation."
Nowhere in this story does it say they ignored the allegation. For all we know they could have been actively investigating the reported offense the whole time the victim was in jail.
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"were upset that the alleged rape story was even printed, but not angry that she has not had a chance to meet her alleged rapist in court?"
I'm not "upset" that the story was printed, I was just wondering what the point was.
As to meeting her alleged rapist in court, perhaps he hasn't been charged yet because the investigation may be ongoing or stalled due to lack of evidence. One simply cannot make that determination from the information printed thusfar.

The thing is-she sure should have paid whatever penalty that she was supposed to pay, but her accusation must at least be considered possibly genuine (and acted upon) if she reported it while knowing she had a warrant against her.
While they had this warrant against her, is she fair game to any criminal to do what he will with her without her having the right to report the crime?
Look at these 2 recent, somewhat similar stories.
First we saw the story that a large number of posters took exception to-the one about the woman who did some jail time for failure to APPEAR IN COURT (ignoring the court order) over fines at the library (NOT for failure to pay the fines). They jeered because she had to do jail time, but didn’t question why the story was printed.
Now we have this story where a female was allegedly raped during the time she was also ignoring what the court ordered (committing a probation violation), they put her in jail, while apparently ignoring the rape allegation.
Why did many posters get angry that the library patron was in jail as an indirect result of not paying these fines, but were upset that the alleged rape story was even printed, but not angry that she has not had a chance to meet her alleged rapist in court?
Where oh where is evansvillehousewife when you need her anger over unjust treatment toward women.

AND YOUR POINT IS.... She really should be sent for a psych eval.

wisconsinheat, that is what I was thinking. The fact that she is a rape victim really has nothing to do with the fact that she is in jail. Looks to me like someone is just trying to get some attention.

This is the gazette reporting on breaking stories lol

OK. So what's the point of this story?
Is it to say that crime victims should not be held responsible for their own crimes?