Prison Abolitionist Claims Reporting Her Gang Rape Would Have Been 'Silly and Strange'

Prison Abolitionist Claims Reporting Her Gang Rape Would Have Been ‘Silly and Strange’


A woman who wants to abolish prisons and police claims six men gang-raped her in 2021 but she did not report it because she believes it would have been “silly” to have people jailed over it.

The Columbia PhD candidate, Anna Krauthamer, got significant criticism after her essay titled “Why I Didn’t Report My Rape” was published on Saturday in the Nation, the Daily Mail reported Monday.

She claimed she was gang raped in a Las Vegas hotel room for several hours when she was on a trip with friends.

“I never did anything about it,” Krauthamer wrote, “The simple answer to the question of why I never reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition of police and prisons.”

She

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