I hope that Sr. Mary Turcotte has to do some meaningful city activities to try and make up for the wrongness or her claims and the harm that she caused.
That being said, she lived in an extremely closed cult environment - do a google search of the sect and I think she was also raised in the cult, so she would have had no knowledge of normal human relationships (even simple friendships), no idea about how the real world works, or consequences. Almost all daily decisions are made by the superiors. Outsiders, whatever their ethnicity, are seen as corrupting influences to be feared. As we know from history and ongoing events, the more a group of people are dehumanized, be they blacks, Jews, etc., the easier it is for other people to view them as not deserving of moral consideration and to demonize them. For this sect, the rest of the world is the other and only the members of their small group will be saved (and their group is mostly white).
Whether or not the bodega worker sneak sex happened, something happened that pushed her to seek council and go to the hospital. Was she pregnant? Did she contract an STD that freaked her out, since she probably had no sex ed? Was she abused or raped by someone else? Did she have consensual sex but was still freaked out? Did she have a gynecological problem that needed treatment, but feared she would be accused of evilness, so made up the rape story as a cause of her gynecological problem? Was she going crazy inside a stifling environment?
Whatever her reasons for making up the rape story on the streets of NY, when the police asked her the race of the attacker, it may have been 50/50 chance that she picked black instead of white. Then again, she may have picked black because of racism. Either way, she needs to be exposed to the real world, she needs to spend daily time doing normal things with people of other ethnicities, free of her superiors supervision. Hopefully, she will develop more empathy for others, will fully regret her false claim, and the next time she is in a difficult situation, do the right thing.
That being said, she lived in an extremely closed cult environment - do a google search of the sect and I think she was also raised in the cult, so she would have had no knowledge of normal human relationships (even simple friendships), no idea about how the real world works, or consequences. Almost all daily decisions are made by the superiors. Outsiders, whatever their ethnicity, are seen as corrupting influences to be feared. As we know from history and ongoing events, the more a group of people are dehumanized, be they blacks, Jews, etc., the easier it is for other people to view them as not deserving of moral consideration and to demonize them. For this sect, the rest of the world is the other and only the members of their small group will be saved (and their group is mostly white).
Whether or not the bodega worker sneak sex happened, something happened that pushed her to seek council and go to the hospital. Was she pregnant? Did she contract an STD that freaked her out, since she probably had no sex ed? Was she abused or raped by someone else? Did she have consensual sex but was still freaked out? Did she have a gynecological problem that needed treatment, but feared she would be accused of evilness, so made up the rape story as a cause of her gynecological problem? Was she going crazy inside a stifling environment?
Whatever her reasons for making up the rape story on the streets of NY, when the police asked her the race of the attacker, it may have been 50/50 chance that she picked black instead of white. Then again, she may have picked black because of racism. Either way, she needs to be exposed to the real world, she needs to spend daily time doing normal things with people of other ethnicities, free of her superiors supervision. Hopefully, she will develop more empathy for others, will fully regret her false claim, and the next time she is in a difficult situation, do the right thing.
