Tammy Bruce: Washington Post turns to victim shaming in Virginia high school rape case

In an absolutely vile turn of events, if you were to read the Washington Post’s coverage of a Virginia high school girl’s rape, you would think you had been dragged by your hair back to the 1950s.

 Jouvenal’s piece had to be seen and approved by at least one other person in that newsroom. Did multiple people at the Washington Post approve the smearing of the victim because of Democratic political concerns?  

In a Washington Post report about a judge who ruled that a teenage boy sexually assaulted a teenage girl in a bathroom in a Loudoun County, Virginia high school, author Justin Jouvenal, who describes himself as a "Justice Reporter" on Twitter, decided that including the victim’s sexual history as "new details" in his report was somehow appropriate. Providing the reader with elements of the victim’s sexual history is meant to imply she can’t be trusted, she wanted it, she’s a tramp who provoked it. It wasn’t rape—it was a bad bathroom date!