Свидетели и подстрекатели

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Если память не изменяет, пару лет (?) назад блогосферу Москвы и некоторых реальных персонажей задело дело о возможном изнасиловании студентки в одном из ночных клубов.

И вот под рукой оказалась покрытая мхом (1988 годик) лента на близкоиграющую тему.
Это я к тому, что если Россия и отстает, то всего-то на пару-другую десятков лет.


«Обвиняемые» (The Accused) 1988 http://baskino.me/films/dramy/12168-obvinyaemye.html

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рассказывает свою ужасную историю

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Героиня этого фильма, Сара Тобиас, рассказывает свою ужасную историю прокурору Кэтрин Мерфи. Сара была безжалостно изнасилована тремя мужчинами в баре. И хотя свидетелей изнасилования было человек двадцать, преступников приговаривают лишь к небольшому сроку за хулиганство.

Такое решение суда было основано на заключении следствия, в котором утверждалось, что Сара сама спровоцировала обвиняемых на насилие. По просьбе девушки, Мерфи начинает заново расследовать обстоятельства этого странного дела. Теперь прокурору предстоит выяснить: что же в действительности произошло тем страшным вечером в баре? А выяснив, доказать вину насильников.

classism, misogyny, Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), slut shaming

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The Accused is a 1988 American legal drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, written by Tom Topor and starring Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi, Ann Hearn, Carmen Argenziano, Steve Antin and Tom O'Brien. In the film Sarah Tobias, a young waitress, is gang-raped by three men at a local bar; she and district attorney Kathryn Murphy set out to prosecute the rapists as well as the men who encouraged them.

Set in Washington state, but filmed in Vancouver, Canada, it is loosely based on the 1983 gang rape of Cheryl Araujo in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the resulting trial, which received national coverage. The film explores the themes of classism, misogyny, Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), slut shaming, victim blaming and women's empowerment.

in a drunk driving car accident.

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Cheryl Ann Araujo (March 28, 1961 – December 14, 1986) was an American rape victim whose case became national news. She was gang-raped in 1983 at age 21 by four men in a tavern in New Bedford, Massachusetts, while other patrons watched but did not intervene. During the prosecution, the defendants' attorneys cross-examined Araujo to such an extent about her own life and activities that the case became widely seen as a template for "blaming the victim" in rape cases. Her case was widely known as the "Big Dan's rape," after the name of the bar in which the attack occurred. Ostracized in New Bedford, Araujo moved with her family to Miami, Florida, to make a new life. She died a few years later in a drunk driving car accident.

after putting her two daughters to sleep

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On March 6, 1983, after putting her two daughters to sleep following a third birthday party for the older girl, Araujo left her home in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to buy cigarettes. The store she usually purchased from was closed, so she stopped at Big Dan's tavern. Two men approached and asked her to leave with them. When she refused, a third man grabbed her from behind and threw her onto the bar's pool table. She was stripped below the waist, and several men raped her. According to Araujo's original report to police, she heard people "laughing, cheering, yelling", but no one responded to her cries for help. As Araujo seemingly admitted later, there was no crowd cheering on the rape.[1] Eventually, Araujo fought off her attackers and ran half-naked into the street, screaming that she had been raped. Three college students passing by in a van came upon Araujo in the street and drove her to the nearest hospital.

people in the Portuguese community

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Prosecution

Six men were originally charged with the rape, though only four, Victor Raposo, John Cordeiro, Joseph Vieira and Daniel Silva, were eventually tried. Two separate trials were conducted to avoid the men testifying against each other during trial. The trials attracted international attention, and people in the Portuguese community felt the case was a catalyst for stirring anti-Portuguese discrimination and sentiment.[1]

In addition, the press coverage and trial cast new light on how victims are treated in rape cases. Defense attorneys questioned the victim about her personal life, suggesting she had invited or somehow deserved the attack. During live TV coverage of the trial in the US, the victim's name was broadcast. After allowing TV coverage, the courts had the right to prevent disclosure of the woman's name but did not. The courts later admonished the press for releasing her name.[2]

The three college students who drove Araujo to the hospital testified as to her state of terror when they encountered her. The four defendants were convicted of aggravated rape; charges against two additional men were dropped.[3] The most any of the men served was 6½ years.

personal privacy interests of the victim

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Issues of media coverage

This case added to the debate of whether rape victims had a right to privacy because of the nature of the crime.[4] The prosecutor said that he believed victims should be protected by having trials be closed, in order to protect their privacy. He felt the publicity might discourage rape victims from trying to get justice.[5] There was considerable controversy at the time over broadcasting the rape trial. The broadcasts received wide ratings.[6] As one study later noted, "Publication of a rape victim's name severely invades the personal privacy interests of the victim and exposes the victim to a variety of social and psychological problems."[2]

her blood alcohol level was .29

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Later life and death

Araujo was essentially ostracized in New Bedford. Shortly after the trial, she moved to Miami, Florida, along with her two daughters and their father – Araujo's high school sweetheart – to find anonymity. Araujo had entered school to become a secretary, was making a life for herself, and had found some measure of happiness.[7]

On December 14, 1986, she lost control of her car while taking her daughters to a Christmas show and struck a utility pole. The girls were injured, but survived. Araujo died in the crash. She was 25 years old. At the time of the crash her blood alcohol level was .29, above the legal limit of .10. According to a United Press International article published December 24, 1986, "The woman who was gang-raped in a New Bedford, Mass., bar two years ago was driving while 'falling-down drunk' when she was killed in an automobile accident here, a Dade County medical examiner said on Tuesday."[8][9]

survived an assault and rape herself

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The feature film drama, The Accused (1988), was loosely based on this case. It starred Jodie Foster as the woman attacked and Kelly McGillis as an assistant district attorney prosecuting the case. In press coverage related to the film, McGillis acknowledged that she had survived an assault and rape herself. She discussed her long struggle to get over the attack, and wanted to talk about it to help other victims

Джоди Фостер

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У Джоди Фостер двое сыновей — Чарльз (род. 20 июля 1998) и Кристофер (род. 29 сентября 2001).

В декабре 2007 года Джоди объявила, что уже 14 лет живёт с партнёршей-продюсером Сидни Бернард[11]. Через полгода после этого признания пара рассталась. Новой возлюбленной Джоди стала сценарист и продюсер Синди Морт. Также она встречалась с Софи Б. Хоукинс.

В апреле 2014 года СМИ сообщили, что Фостер вступила в однополый брак с фотографом и актрисой Александрой Хедисон[12]. Закрытая церемония прошла в Лос-Анджелесе.

Re: Джоди Фостер

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She met Bernard on the set of Sommersby (1993) and was in a relationship with her from 1993 to 2008.[12][159] In April 2014, Foster married actress and photographer Alexandra Hedison.[158][159] She stated in 2011 that having children has made her take on fewer projects: "It is a big sacrifice to leave home. I want to make sure that I feel passionate about the movies I do because it is a big sacrifice ... Even if you take the average movie shoot of four months – you have three weeks' prep, press duties here and abroad, dubbing and looping, magazine covers, events and premieres – that's eight months out of a year. That's a long time. If you do two movies back-to-back, you're never going to see your children."[12]

Foster's sexual orientation became subject to public discussion in 1991, when activists protesting against the alleged homophobia in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) claimed that she was a closeted lesbian in articles in publications