Wasilla forced rape victims to pay for their own forensic tests when Palin was mayor

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but I'm sure it's a lie right

Of course. After all, Palin is a friend of Jesus.

No, McSame is. He's so old, he probably met him once.

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You wouldn’t get raped if you had God on your side.

Ha ok, that was sarcasm.

Anyhow, In Connecticut, if you are an immediate family member of a fallen soldier you can get a special license plate with a gold star on it or something. Anyhow, they were charging 35 bucks extra for them. Get em while their hot!

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Conservative media outlet National Review has this to say about it:

A few points to consider when you hear about the town of Wasilla, and its egregious former policy of charging rape victims for rape kits, a topic USA Today examined today.

1. It is indeed a terrible policy to charge a rape victim for the cost of collecting evidence to prosecute. But these charges occur, even in places where the law theoretically bans it. According to a 2008 U.S. News and World Report article, some Illinois rape victims are still being charged for the rape kits.

The state seemed to address this in a 2001 law, but it would seem that as usual, passing a law and getting a bureaucracy to comply are two different things.

2. Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella told USA Today in an e-mail that the governor "does not believe, nor has she ever believed, that rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test." Her critics can legitimately ask why, as mayor, she didn’t overrule her police chief. But they cannot charge that she supported the policy. In fact, there is not yet any evidence that Palin was aware of this policy.

3. The Police Chief of Wasilla who oversaw this policy may have been wrong to argue that the government should not cover the cost of the tests, but note that he did not want the victim to pay; he wanted to charge the perpetrators the cost.

Ultimately it is the criminal who should bear the burden of the added costs, Fannon said.

The forensic exam is just one part of the equation. Id like to see the courts make these people pay restitution for these things, Fannon said.

Fannon said he intends to include the cost of exams required to collect evidence in a restitution request as a part of a criminals sentencing.

4. An aide to a Democratic state legislator tells USA Today that women in Wasilla did pay out of pocket for their rape kits. According to available FBI statistics, there were five rapes in Wasilla during the three years that they have online records for. The newspaper does the town a disservice by citing the statewide numbers and saying the state has the highest rate of rapes per person.

5. Starting next year, federal law will ban the practice of refusing "to cover the estimated $800 cost of a forensic rape exam unless the victim files a police report." That is the policy in "many" jurisdictions, according to the AP.

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To sum up what the National Review is saying, YES women in Wasilla DID have to pay for their own rape kits, but Palin DIDN'T KNOW and there weren't a whole lot of rapes anyway so #######?

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Oh, and this is interesting, via the Jed Report:

In 1994, John McCain voted against legislation -- pushed through Congress by Joe Biden -- that helped put an end to the practice of charging rape victims for sexual assault exams.

The legislation: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll...&vote=00295

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but I'm sure it's a lie right

Of course. After all, Palin is a friend of Jesus.

No, McSame is. He's so old, he probably met him once.

You mean our lord and savior Handbanana..

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Exactly how many people live in that town and how many rapists live there?

Strange to say this seems like part of a larger issue that could be important other than the whole pregnancy ####### that is advantageous to the McCain campaign.

There seems to be, in her direct line of experience, quite a lot that she didn't know about.

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"In the past we’ve charged the cost of exams to the victims’ insurance company when possible," Fannon told the newspaper. "I just don’t want to see any more burden put on the taxpayer."

From the May 23, 2000 article in the Wasilla Frontiersman. I would hope Ms. Palin would be more up with what goes on in her community of 6500 people (coming from a town of similar size a good many people know more about yourself than you do!). Did she do anything to change this policy, or did women get charged for the rape kits up until she left office?

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Knowles broke new ground while answering a reporter’s question on whether Wasilla forced rape victims to pay for their own forensic tests when Palin was mayor.

the cold hearted #######

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Keep it coming boys