Teacher Accused of Sex with Students Who Allegedly Wore Scream Masks Faces New Charges
Teacher Accused of Arranging Group Sex with Students Who Allegedly Wore ‘Scream’ Masks Faces New Charges
One of her alleged young victims said that the boys involved in the incidents “had to wear a Scream mask” and “they would rotate every 15 minutes” in sexual encounters that would go on for hours
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prosecutors accuse her of arranging group sex with middle and high school boys as young as 13 years old while they allegedly wore Scream masks.
Can someone re-train journalists on the use of “allegedly”? The accusation is that she did these things, not that she is alleged to have done them.
Sprinkling the word around with no logical consistency just trains people to ignore it, which defeats the purpose.
In this case what's being alleged is the wearing of scream masks.
All of it is being alleged—that’s what an accusation is.
But they’re not accusing her of arranging sex with boys who were allegedly wearing masks, they’re accusing her of arranging sex with boys who were actually wearing them. In the context of the act of which she’s accused, there were no allegations.
“Alleged” isn’t idempotent—every time you add it, it modifies the meaning.
Accusation and allegation are roughly synonymous. I'm not sure what exactly your issue is here.
They are synonymous so they shouldn't have used both words.
This isn't a matter of poor training. Actual journalists have to follow standards that come with legal repercussions. Printing that someone certifiably did something that is a matter of a criminal proceeding without a formal conviction is an easy way to end up in front of a judge for libel.
Take the sentence “Police accused John Doe of inciting a lynch mob to attack the alleged rapist“. The police aren’t alleging that the victim was a rapist, they’re saying the rape allegation was part of the context of their own accusation against John Doe.
If an act is described as an accusation, it’s already implied that everything within the description is an allegation by the accusers. But if something within the description is itself labeled as “alleged”, that nested allegation becomes part of scenario the accusers are reconstructing.
I'm not gonna kink shame, but if Scream masks are your thing, maybe talk to your husband first?
It’s rape, you misspelled rape.
Of course it was Indiana, the Florida of the north.
It's the Scream masks that make this interesting. Wtf.
To said rapist, at least. 🤢
That’s some psycho shit
Fucking RAPE. It's called RAPE. Why is it whenever a fucking woman rapes a child they dance around it with terms like molestation? It's fucking called RAPE. She RAPED them. Bury her under the fucking prison.
It's not dancing around. That's the name of the crime in Indiana.
I believe OP's point was that the title says "Teacher accused of sex with students." It should read "Teacher accused of raping students"
It's called grooming.