Lara Logan of CBS News Assaulted In Cairo

CBS News correspondent Lara Logan is recovering in an American hospital this week after being sexually assaulted and beaten by a mob in Egypt's Tahrir Square late on Friday.

The same day that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Logan was surveying the mood of anti-Mubarak protesters for a "60 Minutes" story when she and her team "were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration," CBS said in a statement Tuesday. The network said that a group of 200 people were then "whipped into a frenzy," pulling Logan away from her crew and attacking her until a group of women and Egyptian soldiers intervened.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-0216-lara-logan-20110216,0,7874593.story

 

I am glad Julian Assange is not in Egypt...they would blame it on him.

 

This upset me so much. I hope she finds the healing that she needs and my prayers go out to her. I wish every one that was involved in the gang rape a slow extremely painful death.

It makes me want to throw up, how cruel people can be to one another.

 

Countdown to some radical hippie liberals acting like this is justified because she is part of the American empire and they are heroic revolutionaries

10... 9... 8...

 

And to people saying that she 'deserved it' because she knowingly was in a dangerous place...

 

She bought her ticket. She knew what she was getting into...

 

I doubt it. Rape is never justified.

 

nice addition

 

The death penalty is too good for those men. It's too quick.

This is the way they wanted to celebrate fantastic news?

 

Rape is not IDSI .. If she had he clothes ripped off and her boobs grooped , That is not Involuntary deviated sexual intercourse.

 

What?

 

Some sick people DO think it is sometimes justified though

 

All Im getting from the redundantly boring google searches is.....
She was attacked. They probably were ROBBING THEM and she got her clothe ripped off and groped...

 

Yeah, the news wouldn't come out and say 'gang raped' but you don't get hospitalized for being groped...

 

um, yeah they never said raped. she could be in the hospital from the beating.

 

I really like how many people ignored this point.

 

And I am saying that if she WAS raped, they wouldn't come right out and say it anyway, so there is no way of knowing that she wasn't raped. I'll try to find it, but I read a report last night that was was forced to have sex, but I have no way of knowing if that is true either.

Still, an attitude like, oh she was just groped, big deal is kind of lame in my opinion.

 

in some reports it does say a brutal sexual assault,,,,which i dont think it should be taken lightly,,,,it was a experience that left her hospitalized and traumitized.

My prayers go out to Lara and her family.

 

Unfortunately it's not just some, it's a lot. You can see it in the lack of convictions with rape trials, and the even lower report rate of sexual abuse, something is wrong with society when a rape victim feels shame in being raped because that means she thinks she's done something to bring it on. Ironically women are actually more likely to blame the victim than men are, psychologists chalk it up to dissociation, the only way someone can convince themselves that could never happen to them is believe the victim did something to instigate it.

But back to the reporter, was she actually raped, or just attacked? Cause attack =/= rape, rape = rape.

 

Im not amazed to see the media writes in another riddle.....