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CaféAuLait;3431908 said:'Sagging pants' bill passes House committee | Florida politics blog: The Buzz | tampabay.com & St. Petersburg Times
One committee member, Rep. Kathleen Passidomo (R-Naples) said she'd read recently a horrible story out of Texas about the rape of a young girl.
"There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gangraped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute," she said. "And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think its incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesnt happen to our students."
No one commented on that line of reasoning.
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You may wish to read that again, the rep said "there was an article about the 11 year old who was raped because she was dressed like a prostitute".
You do realize that she was recounting that article that she read as she stated, don't you? And do you realize that article appeared in the New York Times?
Here is an article about the backlash where many have called for the NY Times to apologize:
NY Times responds to backlash over reporting of an alleged child rape - Yahoo! News