you know i read this a few hours ago and I've been thinkin about that poor girl and just how she will probably never have a happy or care free life in the future regardless of getting a boyfriend, girlfriend husband/wife whatever. Even if she does someone traumatized like that will have a hard time having a relationship...It really just pisses me off that people do that, I mean men face the same troubles if they are weak and thrown in jail (i.e. a weak man thrown in for child rape will be raped as if he was said 15 year old girl. Not the same situation, but an adequate example to my point). So I guess you could figure that in America they would do the same thing with a 15 year old male and jail him with full grown if his crime is ridiculously bad, not stealing mind you though. But in holding cells he can still be raped, most criminals stuck in overnight holding cells don't care about life and will rape a young kid who's stuck there overnight anyway. I don't know I want to feel bad for the girl and I sincerely do but I can't help but figure she shouldn't have played around in committing crimes anyway. I mean she'll obviously never do it again but something, a very small part of me, wonders why human nature is so drastic towards one side. No one feels bad for killers or pedophiles, male or female, if they are raped in jail by their own sex. But when something like this happens we all flip out and feel so horrible for the girl. Why is that? Personally I only feel bad cause of her age and the fact she won't have a single normal relationship from here on out, but its more then that honestly. I'm human I feel bad cause shes a girl. But not a single person here can say they would feel the same about a male raped, they would feel bad but not equally. And many would say he deserved it for breaking the law, no one I personally know or even myself but some people have outrageous views towards criminals and what they deserve, not saying they are a bad person or not. Sorry I sorta rambled on the subject...

Well, I tend to have a lower view towards pedophiles and murderers than I do towards a little girl who steals. Shit, I know that a majority of people will never steal in their lives, but many people did and do; I stole as a child, got caught, slapped with a $50 fine and dealt with by my parents, and I haven't stolen a penny since. I just don't think a child stealing is the most severe of crimes. Do not mistake that statement. A child who steals should be punished, but I think jail might've even gone too far (but I don't know the circumstances or the laws in Brazil).
Of course those in the penal system have a responsibility to treat criminals like people and sentence them like people not monsters, but like I've said before (not in this thread), not being a judge, I don't feel myself bound by these parameters, so yes, when a rapist or a murderer gets raped in prison, I don't feel too bad for that person. A 15 year old girl who got jailed for stealing, however, with 20 criminal men (and I don't think there's a reasonable person who doesn't know what happens when you do that) is tragic.

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they'll get what's coming to them. 

Discussion.

Other than "This is horrible", what can we say?

Anyone who gives any notion of being against the girl in any way is gonna get their ass handed to them on a silver platter of righteousness.

Abaetetuba is not Pará's capital but yes it's a horrible thing, now because of some sociopathic police officers everyone will think Brazil is like those islamic countries where it's OK to gang rape women for whatever "reasons"

Actually I live in an Islamic country and I can assure you that rape is not acceptable here and is served with the death sentence.
All I can say now is that the men who did this deserve to be raped themselves but this would probably just be making it worse...

I was thinking about this the other night, and some things didn't make sense to me. Now, while I think I could kill someone if the circumstances were right (like, it was absolutely necessary), but if I killed someone (thereby possibly becoming a criminal) that wouldn't make me a fucking RAPIST. How were all of these criminals they put her in jail with rapists, as well? Is every criminal in Brazil a rapist, automatically? And what kind of fucking jail cell holds 20 people for more than a day? There are holding cells, yes, but usually those are under close police supervision and hold no more than five people for court dates and the like.

Back to the crime at hand: While it was the criminals who did the deed, I think the real villains here are the police. Police are there to keep shit like this from happening, not completely facilitate it. People trust police (well, I do) and so they have a duty to not let this happen. I can accept the error of leaving her in there one night- "Shit guys what did we do, we put a young girl in with a bunch of hardened criminals!"- but how, after hearing her screams and sobbing and pleas for escape (which must have existed) can you leave her in there? That's what makes me truly sick about this; a month under police supervision. They'd see the bruises even if she was told to keep quiet for pain of death, they'd know it was happening even if they were blind fools. And yet they let it keep happening.

It doesn't matter if you are 15 or 50, you shouldn't be thrown into a jail cell with 20 rapists because you are charged with theft. The guys who raped her should be castrated (blanket punishment for all rapists), and the cops should be lined up against a wall and shot. Don't preach to me about the punishment not fitting the crime, because what they did was evil. It wasn't just "malicious" or "sadistic", it was pure fucking evil. Who knows what spurred it on, but it is unforgivable to think that somewhere, anywhere, the one civil body you rely on to protect you from crime submits you to crime of the most terrible sort and keeps you in hell for a month for possibly breaking the law in some comparably insignificant way.

They ranged from 20-34. I am 22 and I haven't had sex in two years (and before that, it was 19 years, and I managed to not rape anything!). And there is no way that Brazilian jails are just "rooms". It was obviously some sort of of holding cell at a police station, so obviously those guys hadn't been there for twenty years or even five years. Brazil isn't some third world country (perhaps parts of the equatorial rain forest may seem like it, but this happened in a small city) and they have LAWS and a JUSTICE SYSTEM there.

You are mixing up jails and prison; jails are any area where you hold a prison (for even a short time), whereas a prison is a permanent holding facility. You don't hold people for years and years in a jail cell, you put them in prison. I don't know, this seems an awful lot like a human rights violation to me, which is supposed to be treated in a certain way. If the federal government can't force their provincial/state governments to prevent situations like this happening, then they are failing as a federal government.

edit: even if (especially if) they were all rapists to start off with it's still the fault of the officers this happened. Yes, the inmates are of course to blame for making the worst possible decision (even if it was only a few of them) but that decision should never, not in the last five hundred years of anything resembling a civilization, have been presented to them in the first place.