Scream?

Kobe Bryant Forum

No media stated that Katelyn Faber screamed. Why didn't she? Even after she left the room she could have screamed.

Why would a girl that had just met a person go to his room?
To play cards? I doubt it.

I do believe he forced her due to the statement made by the bell hop.......'she was shook up and had red marks on her neck and face'.

This case should be just a measdomeaner and not a feloney due to women in the United States can now legally murder their own innocent unborn babies.

I have read that she has had death threats

It is going to be his word against hers in court. Evidence will play a part of the trial. I know if I were a juror..... I would want to know why she did not scream. Why, if she did it, talk about Kobe's anatomy at a party. I believe that he may have assaulted her, but you have to make sure before you send someone to prison for possibly life. This really should be a misdemeanor case.

Which charge would be misdemeanor? False imprisonment? Sex resulting from false imprisonment would mean rape no? And that would be a felony.

Screaming does not automatically go with rape. There are any number of circumstances that would lead to a girl keeping quiet. One - date rape, when you say no but sometimes everything happens so fast you don't realize that you're even being raped until he's almost finished. (Then later you feel totally humiliated and wish you had screamed or at least kicked him in the balls.)
Two - when the rapist is threatening you, and you don't scream because you're afraid.
Three - if it simply doesn't occur to you. Not all women (myself included) scream for help instinctively.

Rape, by the way, should NEVER be a misdemeanor. I understand how upsetting it is to be falsely accused of rape, and I know that women tend to have the upper hand in these cases (IF it's a false accusation), because my husband was falsely accused of rape by his ex girlfriend. He couldn't rape someone if his life depended on it, and he was thoroughly disgusted, angered, and hurt that someone accused him. And yet I still maintain that rape should be a felony because if you have ever actually been raped, then you know just how traumatizing it can be. It's painful, humiliating, and can be dangerous or even life threatening.

I imagine that if Kobe DID rape this girl, it was date rape. She came willingly to his bedroom, after all.

If someone is harming a person in a quiet environment the best thing for the person to do is scream and call attention to what's transpiring. That's common sense. That's Crime Victimization 101. Do you need to read a stat to comprehend? But, again...I stress to thee...Katelyn is oh so questionable. Furthermore, I never (read again, please, thoroughly next time) said he was "innocent" as a result of her not screaming. I simply said she would have had a "stronger case" as a result of potentially more witnesses. Think!

Screaming does not go hand in hand with ANY crime, ESPECIALLY rape. If you read your "stats," you know then that women who scream "RAPE" don't get help. Actually, we're told to shout "FIRE", and it still isn't guaranteed to help.

I understand the problems you are confronted with. What you will have to accept is the decision made by the jurors, unless overturned by an appeal. It is going to depend on what the jurors will state as guilty or not guilty. It is not going to matter what you or I state as an opinion, but what the jurors make a decision on.

He may or may not be guilty.... people are convicted of crimes that they never committed..... all the time in this country.

I still say that he forced himself on Katelyn Faber.


So what! That's not life in prison.

One way or another, I feel sorry for this girl. Not sorry enough to want to put her in jail for a few nights if she's lying, but sorry nonetheless. And if she actually were raped, given the circumstances, I feel bad for her but I would also tell her "Next time, feel free to scratch his eyes out."

Women are raised to be too submissive... we're afraid to say no sometimes, and even if we do say no, guys (particularly the "traditional" kind) don't listen. So it's possible she said no, Kobe didn't listen, and later she realized it was rape. However, it's definitely not a very violent rape, and I don't think that Kobe should be taken to the ringer for it.

The last posting cries "But, what if she lied?" The only lie that I have heard, officially, happened the next evening when Kobe was being questioned and denied even knowing the accuser until he was taken to the hospital to have a DNA sample taken. He then "remembered" that he had had consensual sex with her the evening before.
He couldn't have been trying to be the gallant male trying to protect the poor little girl's reputation. He already knew that she had accused him. He was just lying until he knew he was caught.
Then he expects everyone to believe the second story when both stories are obviously trying to convince everyone that 'poor Kobe didn't do anything wrong."
It's hard to believe the second story when he admits the first was a lie.

I think this: I don`t think that Kobe Bryant is so STUPID to force someone, I mean, he has to know what is or not RAPE right, what I'm trying to say is that rape is for someother kind of men, I don't think that he could do something like that 'cause he's a pulic person, he wouldn't dirt his image like that, for the other side if anybody heard her screaming how we can be sure of what she said, that's silly, I don't believe at all.