Hey, Can A Woman "Ask To Get Raped"?

Now the question is should I allow this thread to die out by no longer postings to it?

He must have nothing else to do with himself, if he hangs out in here knowing he is clearly unwanted. That's rather pathetic.

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He must have nothing else to do with himself, if he hangs out in here knowing he is clearly unwanted. That's rather pathetic.

Yeah - I could almost feel sorry for him. Almost.

Investigation: Could background check have prevented alleged rape?
By Abbie Boudreau, Scott Zamost and Jessi Joseph
CNN Special Investigations Unit

Pascagoula, Mississippi (CNN) -- A lack of screening of oil spill cleanup workers meant a sex offender got a job, and left him free to rape a colleague according to a Mississippi county sheriff.

A CNN investigation into the incident reveals that basic background checks were not done on those hired to remove oil from the beaches in and around Pascagoula.

Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd told CNN he was shocked when he met with the head of BP security for the area several weeks before the alleged rape took place. He said the BP representative told him that only drug screenings, not background checks, were being conducted on the cleanup workers.

"I said, 'You're kidding me.' He said, 'No.' He said, 'There's so many of them, we were told to do drug screens and that was it.' And I said, 'Well, that's not good at all.' "

Byrd said he told the BP official that "you're going to have every type of person coming in here looking for a job, and you're going to have the criminal element in here, and we're not going to know who we're dealing with if we don't do background checks on these people."

"It's sad because you got a victim now by a sex offender, and he's in our jail. Had we have known this, he would have been arrested before the crime could have been committed," said Byrd, who also said that if asked, his department would have done the background checks for free.

Rundy Charles Robertson, 41, who faces charges of sexual battery and failure to register as a sex offender, is in the Jackson County, Mississippi, jail with bail set at $505,000. He told police that he had consensual sex with the woman. He has not yet entered a plea.

Robertson has a criminal history dating back to 1991, according to police records. He was put on the national sex offender registry for a 1996 conviction for contributing to the delinquency of a minor in Louisiana. He is also on probation after being convicted in 2003 in Georgia for cruelty to children.

Read Boudreau's blog post on background checks for spill workers

Robertson had been supervising a crew of cleanup workers, including the alleged victim. She told CNN he offered to take her home one day in June because she was not feeling well.

However, she said, when he dropped her off, he asked to use the bathroom in her motel room. When he came out, she said, he raped her.

The woman told CNN she is scared and angry that this happened.

"If they would have ran the background checks, they wouldn't have a man like that working," she said.

"Emotionally, it's really, really messed me up. I get real upset at times, I go through anxiety. I feel angry, I feel dirty. I don't understand what gave him the right to take something -- or felt he could do what he wanted. ... I'm scared. I'm real scared."

She said she was laid off and is now unemployed.

"I find it unbelievable because BP and their subcontractors had relationships with all local law enforcement," said Adam Miller, the woman's attorney. "They had the opportunity and the ability to clearly check all of these people that they were hiring and bringing in to ensure the safety of the public."

He said since the incident happened in June, it's been "a living hell for her."

"She gave up her housing where she was living to come here," Miller said. "Now she's been raped, she doesn't have a job, and everybody walked away."

BP hired a company called Miller Environmental Group for the beach cleanup project. Miller hired Aerotek to find workers.

You can read the rest of the story here. They had hired other convicted sex offenders, as well as others with various criminal backgrounds.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/12/gulf.cleanup.workercharged/?hpt=C1

Would they really not have hired this man if they knew of his background? Should convicted sex offenders not be able to get any employment?

I'm not sure that having people register as sex offenders really offers women much protection.

The woman said she trusted the man because he was her boss. But this kind of rape can happen in any acquaintance situation, where the woman may not know much about the man. I'm not sure BP or it's sub-contractors really have any responsibility here, although I suspect the woman may sue them.

I'm not sure that anyone but the rapist is responsible for the alleged rape in this situation.

Anyone else here have a different opinion on that?

I'm not sure that having people register as sex offenders really offers women much protection.