Women's group condemns porn video of rape victim
By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau Chief
A group of leftist women condemned the circulation of a pornographic DVD, which portrayed a rape victim as a prostitute, a local newspaper has said.
Nicole, a 23-year-old Filipina, accused four US servicemen of raping her last year.
"Powerful people wanted to destroy the strength of the case filed by rape victim Nicole, against the US servicemen," Journal said.
It was "another dirty trick" by those who do not want the case to succeed, Journal quoted Garbiella's secretary-general Emmi de Jesus as saying.
Unfair
The DVD was meant to make the rape victim look as if she "deserved or invited the assault", said de Jesus.
The DVD was part of a "sinister campaign" to destroy Nicole's fighting stance and spirit in her quest for justice, the woman activist said.
"If the move is to condition the public's minds on the acquittal of the suspects, it is but another cheap tactic and a despicable manoeuvre by the initiator," de Jesus said.
She did not describe the content of the DVD. She did not call on authorities to confiscate the DVD.
Meanwhile, Dr June Pagaduan-Lopez, a psychiatry professor at the University of the Philippines told the Inquirer that the ongoing prosecution of the rape victim is "unfair".
"Why are we putting rape victims on trial here? Why are we asking only about their background? Why are we not looking at the record and background of the rapists as well?" Lopez said.
A lower court in Makati will soon make a ruling on the rape case on November 27.
Nicole said that she was too drunk when she danced with a US serviceman at the Neptune Bar during a Halloween Party last year.
She said the same US serviceman brought her into a rented van that was roving around Subic, a former US Naval Base in central Luzon.
'Too drunk'
At the time, she claimed she was too drunk to protest when the same US serviceman raped her while his three companions cheered on, in the van.
She was dropped from the van.
The four US servicemen were on furlough from a joint Philippine-US counter-terrorism exercise in the Philippines when the rape allegedly took place in Subic. They remained in the custody of the US Embassy while the hearing of the case was held since last year.
The rape case has fanned strong anti-US sentiment in the Philippines, one of the US's allies in Asia.
A group of leftist women condemned the circulation of a pornographic DVD, which portrayed a rape victim as a prostitute, a local newspaper has said.
Nicole, a 23-year-old Filipina, accused four US servicemen of raping her last year.
"Powerful people wanted to destroy the strength of the case filed by rape victim Nicole, against the US servicemen," Journal said.
It was "another dirty trick" by those who do not want the case to succeed, Journal quoted Garbiella's secretary-general Emmi de Jesus as saying.
Unfair
The DVD was meant to make the rape victim look as if she "deserved or invited the assault", said de Jesus.
The DVD was part of a "sinister campaign" to destroy Nicole's fighting stance and spirit in her quest for justice, the woman activist said.
"If the move is to condition the public's minds on the acquittal of the suspects, it is but another cheap tactic and a despicable manoeuvre by the initiator," de Jesus said.
She did not describe the content of the DVD. She did not call on authorities to confiscate the DVD.
Meanwhile, Dr June Pagaduan-Lopez, a psychiatry professor at the University of the Philippines told the Inquirer that the ongoing prosecution of the rape victim is "unfair".
"Why are we putting rape victims on trial here? Why are we asking only about their background? Why are we not looking at the record and background of the rapists as well?" Lopez said.
A lower court in Makati will soon make a ruling on the rape case on November 27.
Nicole said that she was too drunk when she danced with a US serviceman at the Neptune Bar during a Halloween Party last year.
She said the same US serviceman brought her into a rented van that was roving around Subic, a former US Naval Base in central Luzon.
'Too drunk'
At the time, she claimed she was too drunk to protest when the same US serviceman raped her while his three companions cheered on, in the van.
She was dropped from the van.
The four US servicemen were on furlough from a joint Philippine-US counter-terrorism exercise in the Philippines when the rape allegedly took place in Subic. They remained in the custody of the US Embassy while the hearing of the case was held since last year.
The rape case has fanned strong anti-US sentiment in the Philippines, one of the US's allies in Asia.
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