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JohnDeere714 t1_j64wf21 wrote

What’s fucked up is that this is less than 15 minutes away from me and I’m now hearing about it. Maybe one story happened but it was barely touched

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jillianpikora OP t1_j6518m8 wrote

The court clerk told me I was the second reporter to request the court documents, the other outlet was WJAC. I think that is so weird since the police announced the arrests. Maybe if the protest on Tuesday has a large turnout this will get more coverage.

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jillianpikora OP t1_j67lwyk wrote

Yep, that is exactly what happened, but I was slacked and a discussion was had. I ultimately felt it was/is an important detail (others thought her intoxication was important "Drunk Woman Raped"... I very much vetoed that). The woman assaulted emphasized this detail multiple times in her police interview to highlight why the attack was so horrific for her. It was clear her virginity was important/significant to her and it made the emotional and physical trauma of the rape and assault worse so she wanted authorities and later a court to beware of this. Based on that element of the court documents I did give the headline the final ok, especially since I had already mentioned her virginity in the body of the article.

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