Kentucky Republican To Rape Victim: Getting DNA From Rapist Worse Intrusion Than Being Raped
March 12, 2016 1:28 pm ·
Republicans care more about protecting rapists than they do about the women they raped.
Kentucky GOP Senator Dan Seum made that clear during a committee hearing for a bill that would require people arrested for committing felonies to provide their DNA to law enforcement.
Rape survivor Michelle Kuiper courageously testified as a witness in favor of Senate Bill 150 along with a mother whose daughter had been raped and brutally murdered and a man who spent 18 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of rape before DNA found the real rapist.
But during Kuiper’s testimony, Seum became the latest Republican to deliver offensive and insensitive remarks about rape, only this time the remarks were made directly in the face of a rape victim.
“I understand your pain,” Seum claimed before telling Kuiper that her rape is not as important as protecting her rapist from “government intrusion.”
“But I can tell you I have eight children and 21 grandkids, that over the years this government through its intrusion has done more damage to me than all those criminals out there ever did,” he callously continued.
You read that right. A Republican literally told a rape victim that the unwanted intrusion of her body by her rapist is less important than making sure the rapist is shielded from the government.
more:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/03/12/kentucky-republican-to-rape-victim-getting-dna-from-rapist-worse-intrusion-than-being-raped/
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