So many directions to go with this entirely despicable incident.....and too many other similar situations. Where along the way of attempts to teach kids that "you can be anything you want to be" did those kids come to hear "you can do anything you want to do"? I believe the idea was to encourage excellence and learning so that one could achieve higher goals in life. However, the outcome has been far too much self-gratification in everything from money, cars, clothing, jewelry to sexual 'action' (as that dolt of a father termed the vicious rape!) whether you have any right to it or not. It leads not to excellence and higher goals in life, but theft, whether of 'things' like the money, jewelry, etc. to taking sex from those unwilling, or unable to give it. And all to often, as in this case, there is either no penalty, or one so lenient as to encourage others to keep on taking whatever they want.
What a shallow, wasted life that young excuse of a man has had to come to this! I hope someone in his life can influence him to somehow turn his life around find some way to pay an honest penalty for what he has done and the courage to meaningfully communicate to youth how wrong such actions are.
mrj