“You say that he raped an actress,” Cicero told the court. “And this is said to have happened at Atina, while he was quite young.”
There was a low, subdued chuckle from the crowd. They were all men — women weren’t allowed inside the courtroom — most from the town of Atina themselves. They’d made the 80-mile trip to support a man they respected, whom they believed had been unfairly accused.
His name was Gnaeus Plancius, and in the year 54 B.C., he was one of the most powerful men in Rome.
This article is disgusting. Only a man would talk about an issue like this so insensitively, as if you are almost enjoying imagining it. Shame on you for exploiting the tragedy of a small girl and talking about it in this way. Completely insensitive and NOT helping survivors of assault.