A real cautionary tale about a young man whose life was destroyed.
For the past six months, I’ve been staring at a 30-pound box filled with court documents and what’s left of a young man’s life following one college night and a 5- to 15-second disputed sex act.
That is, 5 to 15 seconds into the act of sexual intercourse, she said, “Stop.”
He stopped immediately.
She claimed rape.
Thus, before his 23rd birthday, Rich Gorman of Orlando, Fla., was locked behind bars in the Liberty Correctional Institute near Tallahassee, serving a five-year sentence for sexual battery.
One minute a junior at Florida State University majoring in business/computer systems, the next a prison inmate labeled a sex offender.
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The moral of Gorman’s story, which can’t be proved or disproved in this limited space, is that boys and men accused of rape have little hope of reclaiming the life they once knew, regardless of whether they’re guilty or innocent.
Read the story. Think about it the next time you hook up and you may find that you all of a sudden have lost interest.
The Ithaca Journal - www.theithacajournal.com - Ithaca, NY
