grodscorp@grods.comStripped naked, twice over
 | Posted by Bridgit Gread on Friday 14 March 2008, 9:44 pm Categories: Media, Religion, Society Tags: Tags: privacy, ReligiousFreaks, SexualAssault |
There’s a kind of unwritten protocol between media outlets that they avoid publishing the name and image of sexual assault victims, particularly minors. The victims of a touchy-feely dermatologist on tonight’s TV newscasts appeared in pixellated form, for example. Last week, religious nutter and probable MK-lookalike Julian Buchwald…
…cooked up a deranged plan: he took his 17-year-old girlfriend on a picnic, donned a balaclava and constructed an elaborate kidnapping ruse that saw them spend a week buck naked in the bush, fleeing imaginary persecutors, all part of some incredulous attempt by Julian to get laid. Some males are cursed by their lack of a Fleshlight.
Anyway, since both were missing for a week - and because clever little Julian had left behind some notes as red-herrings - their disappearance, identities and photographs were widely reported. Once they were found and it was learned that the girl was the victim of kidnapping for sexual procurement, her name and face dropped out of all major media sources except one. You guessed it … the Herald Sun:
It is alleged Mr Buchwald, of Budgeree in Gippsland, snatched his 17-year-old girlfriend C——– W—– after planning a picnic on his family’s property on March 4. The court heard Mr Buchwald climbed from the car but returned in a balaclava.
Ms W—– was then bound, gagged and spirited away on a three-hour drive to a rural property near Buchan, in East Gippsland, the court heard. Mr Buchwald is then alleged to have cut off her clothes and underwear, his victim unaware who her captor was.
If that wasn’t enough, there’s a nice big close-up of the girl’s face taken in happier times, with a caption informing us she was “…bound and stripped”. I’m sure she’ll be relieved about not having to explain the details of her harrowing ordeal to family and friends. Top marks to the Hun for thoughtfulness and sensitivity.
