Laughing at a daughter’s rape
Laughing at a daughter’s rape
Christian Joy Brosas for infographic with research
by Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
By Inday Espina-Varona
“She can’t be raped; she carries a gun.”–Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, joking about his daughter coming out as a rape victim.
It takes a lot of courage for women to come out as rape victims.
Sara Duterte, facing backlash over her father’s “joke” about an Australian missionary raped and killed during a 1989 Davao prison hostage crisis, bared her story.
Rape, she said, is not a joke – a statement drawn from her own painful experience.
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