Legal Niches

RapeLay Coverage Hits Home for Teen Girl

By pete_gallagher

While we often make light of reactions to RapeLay from the media and politicians, the recent reemergence of the game into the spotlight has caused a 14-year old victim of sexual assault to come out and publicly denounce the title.

Well-meaning teen Elena Lyons contacted Charleston, South Carolina's News 2 in order to voice her concerns over the game, saying, 'This game is wrong.  It needs to be stopped.  No game like this should ever be put out there. Rape is not a joke.  People seem to think that it is.  They don't take it seriously, but rape isn't a joke. It is very hurtful.'

Lyons, who says she was sexually assaulted by a non-family member at age eight, has started an online petition against the game and is organizing a walk that she hopes will stop the game.

Unfortunately, short of destroying all the tubes that comprise the Internet, there's not much that can be done about the availability of RapeLay, perhaps someone should have told Lyons that.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).