Please stop by Natalie Karneef’s blog and offer your moral support. You can find the beginning of the story here. See if it gets your blood boiling as rapidly as it did mine.
Five years ago, Natalie was drugged and raped while vacationing in Greece. To add massive insult to injury, she was then turned away from the first police station she walked into to report the crime, and, despite going to three different hospitals, was not medically examined until 24 hours after the rape.
Her experience with the Greek justice system is from Dante’s fifth circle, with the trial currently postponed until January of 2011.
The man who drugged and raped her — and three other women — walks freely around Athens, after serving only 18 months on his first rape conviction.
*Nemesis: goddess of righteous retribution; foe to all men of violence; daughter of Justice. From nemein, meaning ‘to give what is due’.
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thank you for revealing yourself on my blog so that i could find yours. your post here is petryifying, as was the movie Taken, because there were so,so,so many situations that I was in as a college student traveling Europe that could have turned out like this. It didn’t. In fact, it just happened in my own town, a few miles from home. Go figure. It makes me not want to have daughters.
Sigh.
But, I am glad to have found your blog. I subscribed immediately and look forward to reading back thru the archives a bit. love your photos and descriptions that i read so far.
jessica
Hi Jessica! Thank you for your comment. Natalie’s story sent chills down my spine as well.