Have you ever seen a news headline so ridiculous, so far-fetched, so offensive that you thought it was a satirical piece for The Onion?
That was me, doing a double-take, when I first learned that a veteran police chief in Georgia, on a college campus of all places, said most women who claimed to be raped were lying. Instead, they just decided the next day they didn’t like the man they chose to be with and opted to report it as a sexual assault.
BIDEN CALLS FOR END OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON CAMPUS
I’ll stop paraphrasing and allow Police Chief Bryan Golden to speak for himself.
“Most of these sexual assaults are women waking up the next morning with a guilt complex. That ain’t rape, that’s being stupid. When the dust settles, it was all consensual. It doesn’t happen here. It doesn’t show up here.They’re about as much a rape as a goat roping.”
Yes, a real police chief really let those words come out of his mouth.
He was fired, right?
Nah.
Instead, he was given a short suspension, ordered to take some sensitivity training, but is already back on the job.
The president of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Dr. David Bridges, criticized Golden’s remarks but then waded in on the matter with his own brand of stupidity. He reportedly said sexual assaults are not really a problem on his campus. But here’s the thing, Dr. Bridges, your own police chief already told us that he believes most women who reported being raped are lying. How would you actually know if your campus has a problem with sexual assault?
Several studies have horrifically confirmed an astounding 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted on college campuses. Somehow, though, Dr. Bridges and Chief Golden believe their campus is immune.
How likely is it, now, that a person who is sexually assaulted on this campus would ever feel comfortable reporting it to the campus police?