Alleged Serial Rapist Firefighter Will Go Unprosecuted

Abraham Pedrego's DNA matches a series of rapes from 1989 and 1990.  And because they just got around to testing it now, he won't be charged.  Because the statute of limitations is up.  So he's been "MeToo'd," to misuse the phrase.  (I need to come back to my thoughts on that.)

Here's what the police man said from KOLD:

“'This case is particularly hard because these cases have remained unsolved for so long and going back and notifying the victims that we have identified the suspect but aren’t able to make an arrest does not feel like justice. It’s miserable,' Wilson said."

Pobrecito.  My heart really breaks for him.  Imagine how bad it would fuck with his head if he was the one who got raped!  For real. 

No, seriously, like I've always had to hide the fact that I got raped as if I were the one who committed all those crimes.  Because basically when the criminal doesn't get dealt with, that big ball of inconvenience about it just hangs in the air.  And a lot of people resent having to deal with or even know about it.  So all of that falls to the survivor.  It just does.  And the police man wants me to cry for him because he can't put this one guy in jail?  LOL  Unraped people are adorable, their pain threshold.  Next time maybe don't wait 30 years to test your rape kits.

What makes this kind of story so completely insufferable -- aside from how horrible it is for the survivors -- is listening to other people talk about it.  Because there's always at least a 50:1 ratio of unraped people to survivors.  They say 50 things, and we say maybe 1 -- maybe.  And if we do get to say anything at all, we usually get called liars and asked why we waited until now to come forward, or have our clothing choices questioned, or get attacked some other way.

Reddit is a perfect example of this.  If you looked at that linked thread, you'd imagine Reddit was a safe haven for women!  LOL  When actually it's completely horrible, an absolute misery pit of rape culture in every imaginable way.  A bigger or more horrible sausage festival probably does exist.  But Reddit is utterly shameful for its size and mainstreamness/depth of misogyny.

I couldn't follow the Ukraine war, for example.  I would ask the "good guys" on Reddit to please refrain from graphic rape descriptions, as it was retraumatizing for other survivors, and also reviolating of the original survivor.  And they simply refused to hear that, very angrily and aggressively so.

So all the white-knight fuckery, all the righteous indignation about how this one guy goes unpunished?  Oh, fuck off, the lot of you.  Any time I try to speak up as a rape survivor, they come for me with torches and pitchforks.  And I know I'm not the only one.  Just fuck all the fucking way off with it.  You, the whole big mob of you, let them all walk free every time.  Say hi to Tara Reade, whose complaints got no investigation whatsoever.  She, herself, got crucified and vilified in every imaginable way until she fled the country.