Posted on 01/26/2026 2:30:41 PM PST by algore
A Columbia PhD candidate sparked widespread backlash after revealing she chose not to report her rape because of her stark prison abolitionist views.
Anna Krauthamer published an essay titled 'Why I Didn’t Report My Rape,' explaining why she did not alert authorities to her 2021 sexual assault after she was gang raped in Las Vegas.
Krauthamer, a self-proclaimed 'staunch prison abolition activist', said she did not report the assault because she wished it had never happened and believed imprisoning the abusers would do nothing for her.
'The prospect of being a participant in other peoples’ incarceration is as alien to me as anything could be,' she wrote.
'How silly and strange it would be to have a group of people incarcerated at my expense when doing so would do nothing to fix the damage they have already so thoroughly done.'
She added that her 'intellectual and political belief in abolitionism prevails' over prosecuting her perpetrators.
Krauthamer also touched upon friends that urged her to report the assault, arguing that legal action against the men who hurt her could protect other women.
She pushed back by describing 'carceral logic,' the idea that prison is treated as the automatic response to harm, and worried the advice was shaped by that 'logic'.
The author also claimed not all victims see incarceration as justice, even though society teaches people to believe it is.
'I don’t want to ruin the lives of my rapists and I don’t know if they have children. The only thing I want is for them to never have done what they did to me—and nothing, including sending them to prison, will ever change that reality.'
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I hope she never has children.
“I don’t want to ruin the lives of my rapists and I don’t know if they have children. “
How many lives has she ruined by letting them off to rare more women?
A total retard.
“After all, it wasn’t ‘rape rape’”
Well, Anna, can you at least agree that it would be a good idea to send them to prison for their crime so that they don’t repeat it on someone else like you?
I also am against prison, instant death sentence is preferable.
“believed imprisoning the abusers would do nothing for her.”
yeah, lady, but reporting and perhaps imprisoning these scum could very well have prevented them from raping and killing others, but being the self-centered leftist kunt that you are, you apparently never thought about anyone else except for yourself ...
I'll take "Things that never happened for $600 Alex".
Preferably a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.
Stockholm syndrome?
Maybe she enjoyed it.
“Woke woman who wants to abolish prisons says she didn’t report her rapist to police because it would make her feel ‘silly and strange’’
You’re already there sweetheart ... big time
The problem is they want to drag the rest of us down with them.
Get medieval on their ass.
While she doesn’t believe incarcerating someone for this crime would have done anything for her - perhaps it would have helped someone else from being assaulted too.
Must have been traumatic, and she has a choice to put it in her past. But, those bastards probably continued to hurt others.
‘I’ll take “Things that never happened for $600 Alex”.’
Good chance. Getting lots of attention.
I'm mildly curious as to her opinions regarding the keeping and bearing of arms, or the shooting of violent criminals by their intended victims.
Exactly. She doesn’t give a damn what misery her failure causes to other women.
Clearly, it wasn’t that bad. He’s not going to rape anyone else because...after all.....who else could measure up to her?
People are crazy today. Their mind has been destroyed by virtue signaling.
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