Alabama Republican Thinks Roy Moore's VICTIMS Should Be 'Prosecuted'

The total debasement of the Republican party has come.

As long as there are men who sexually assault young women, there will be other, equally dickless men who blame the young women for not complaining about being assaulted in the preferred manner. The pedophiles and pedo-fanboys will always claim that their victim was cool with it, didn’t protest enough, or didn’t come forward quickly enough.

Speed is especially important to these assaulters and enablers. If you are a 14-year-old girl who is inappropriately touched by a grown man in a position of power, you best be ready to fight him and all his friends THAT DAY. Any delay between the alleged misconduct and your willingness to turn your life upside down in a lonely attempt to hold your attacker accountable suggests that what happened to you was “probably fine.” Tick-tock, little girl. Your credibility has an expiration date, apparently.

Most people in the “I don’t believe her” club are content to subtly tear down a woman’s claims after enough time has passed between the incident and the revelation. “This happened a long time ago.” “Memories shift.” “Why is she only saying this now [when I’m about to become even more powerful] as opposed to then [when I was merely incredibly powerful]?”

But Alabama State Representative Ed Henry (R-Of Course He Is), has taken the victim-too-slow argument to its logical and horrific extreme. He gave an interview where he suggested Roy Moore’s victims should be prosecuted for not coming forward sooner. From Rawstory:

In an interview with The Cullman Times, Henry raged that the women interviewed in the Washington Post’s bombshell report about Moore’s sexual behavior waited so long to publicly accuse him of having improper relations with them when they were teens.

“If they believe this man is predatory, they are guilty of allowing him to exist for 40 years,” Henry fumed. “I think someone should prosecute and go after them. You can’t be a victim 40 years later, in my opinion.”

Henry then went on to say that if Moore had really molested teenagers, they would have come forward years ago and not waited until he was likely about to be elected a U.S. Senator…

Henry also said the women were “foolish” for coming forward with their accusations and hinted they’d regret “going down this road.”

Instead of the guy who allegedly assaulted little girls, this guy wants to go after the women who spoke out for not speaking out sooner… when they were little girls.

Readers of this website know well that you couldn’t ever do what State Rep. Backwash Drinker here suggests someone do. But you have to understand what Roy Moore’s talking Fleshlight is trying to do here. He said this in an interview because he wants other Roy Moore accusers — if there are any out there — to think twice about coming forward. The threat to “prosecute” them for not coming forward sooner is not credible, but how would they know that? In addition to the scrutiny and shame Moore and his people are promising to bring to them, this elected official is trying to make the victims know that they could go to jail, EVEN IF EVERYONE BELIEVES THEM, for failing to come forward sooner.

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I’m not a spiritual man, but people like Ed Henry make me hope there’s a hell. IT BE WORTH THE RISK OF ETERNAL DAMNATION just to be sure that there would be some kind of everlasting justice for people like Henry and Moore and all these people.

But there is no hell, because there is no God, because there is no entity that could abide pedophilia so long as other cosmic goals were being advanced… aside from the Republican party, of course.

Alabama GOP lawmaker: Roy Moore accusers should be prosecuted for not coming forward sooner [Rawstory]


Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at elie@abovethelaw.com. He will resist.

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