https://padlet.com/22sparada/y5uapn5r06q2 Courtney Kramlick, Kerilyn Monge, Sarah Parada en-us 2019-05-15 13:30:55 UTC 2019-05-16 13:44:38 UTC hello@padlet.com 22ckramlick https://padlet.com/22sparada/y5uapn5r06q2/wish/360329915 Melinda Sordino runs into an issue at the end of a summer party and ends up calling the cops. She busts the party and even sends someone to jail. The author, Laurie Halse Anderson, based the story off of her own experience in high school. So far, Melinda hasn't spoken about what happened over the summer, at the party, and she is suffering in school, and suffering emotionally. ]]> 2019-05-15 13:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/22sparada/y5uapn5r06q2/wish/360329915 22kmonge_navarro https://padlet.com/22sparada/y5uapn5r06q2/wish/360338618 Melinda starts off high school without any friends and is distant from her parents. She later befriended Heather but she later ditches her to hang out with a group called the Marthas. This story is based on an experience that the author, Laurie Halse Anderson, went through. People have also come out and told their stories about similar experiences that they had. The same thing that happened to Melinda happened to Melanie-Shaun Striker. She posted her story on a website called psiloveyou.xyz. (https://psiloveyou.xyz/goodbye-childhood-a-true-story-of-date-rape-e04c36249f7) She also went to a party thinking that it would be safe because her friend was going along with her boyfriend. At the party, she and her friend started to drink, as well as her friend's boyfriend who was driving them around at the time. She later separated from her friend and went off with someone named Adam. Later that night she was raped by him. ]]> 2019-05-15 13:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/22sparada/y5uapn5r06q2/wish/360338618 22sparada https://padlet.com/22sparada/y5uapn5r06q2/wish/360770361 According to The Criminal Justice System (https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system), 995 out of every 1,000 rapes, the perpetrator will walk free. On this website, Rainn.org, it shows that when 230 rapes are reported, forty-six arrests will be made, nine of those cases reach prosecutors, five cases will lead to a felony conviction, and 4.6 rapists will be imprisoned. That means that almost three out of four assaults go unreported. Perpetrators of sexual violence are less likely to be incarcerated than perpetrators of other crimes. Several assaults go unreported is because of several reasons. A few reasons this article gave was because the victim/survivor didn't want to want to get the perpetrator in trouble, or because they were scared, and in this case, Melinda was had both of those reasons. Although the story in the book was from a long time ago, a lot of people could possibly relate to it and this is still going on today. ]]> 2019-05-16 13:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/22sparada/y5uapn5r06q2/wish/360770361