UNITED STATES
The American Conservative
September 19, 2018
By Rod Dreher
This piece by Elizabeth Bruenig about a rape in her hometown high school is “devastating.” She’s right. It’s about Amber Wyatt, a cheerleader who says she was raped in 2006 by two athletes who drove her away from a party. She reported the rape to adults that night, and to the police the next day. But the boys got away with it, in part, Bruenig argues, because society turned against Amber Wyatt.
Here’s an important part of the story Bruenig tells. It happened a decade earlier in the same town — Arlington, Texas:
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