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    1313 days ago

    One of her alleged young victims said that the boys involved in the incidents “had to wear a Scream mask” and “they would rotate every 15 minutes” in sexual encounters that would go on for hours

    W.T.F.

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    Fucking RAPE. It’s called RAPE. Why is it whenever a fucking woman rapes a child they dance around it with terms like molestation? It’s fucking called RAPE. She RAPED them. Bury her under the fucking prison.

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        1913 days ago

        I believe OP’s point was that the title says “Teacher accused of sex with students.” It should read “Teacher accused of raping students”

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          813 days ago

          Cultural perpetuation of the subtle lie that females cannot rape is only one way society crushes the “unmanly” victims into silenced shame. (Statistically, leading to suicide and/or similar breakdown)

          Preach. ✊🏽🥲

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    513 days ago

    prosecutors accuse her of arranging group sex with middle and high school boys as young as 13 years old while they allegedly wore Scream masks.

    Can someone re-train journalists on the use of “allegedly”? The accusation is that she did these things, not that she is alleged to have done them.

    Sprinkling the word around with no logical consistency just trains people to ignore it, which defeats the purpose.

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        All of it is being alleged—that’s what an accusation is.

        But they’re not accusing her of arranging sex with boys who were allegedly wearing masks, they’re accusing her of arranging sex with boys who were actually wearing them. In the context of the act of which she’s accused, there were no allegations.

        “Alleged” isn’t idempotent—every time you add it, it modifies the meaning.

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          Incorrect. They plainly state she is in fact accused of the sex act. They are only saying the mask wearing is alleged because they can’t know that. They qualify that as that portion of the encounters doesn’t seem to affect the criminal charges but certainly makes it a bit more WTF and a better headline.

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      013 days ago

      Accusation and allegation are roughly synonymous. I’m not sure what exactly your issue is here.

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      This isn’t a matter of poor training. Actual journalists have to follow standards that come with legal repercussions. Printing that someone certifiably did something that is a matter of a criminal proceeding without a formal conviction is an easy way to end up in front of a judge for libel.

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        Take the sentence “Police accused John Doe of inciting a lynch mob to attack the alleged rapist“. The police aren’t alleging that the victim was a rapist, they’re saying the rape allegation was part of the context of their own accusation against John Doe.

        If an act is described as an accusation, it’s already implied that everything within the description is an allegation by the accusers. But if something within the description is itself labeled as “alleged”, that nested allegation becomes part of scenario the accusers are reconstructing.