A year in detention? For gang-rape?

"Bullying" is in the eye of the activist group. Hurt the precious widdle feelings of a gay Rutgers kid and you can expect an avalanche of hand-wringing. Tyler Clementi's suicide is a cause celebre in New Jersey now. Every day brings another "anti-bullying" initiative coupled with a rehash of all the usual homosexual "rights" talking points.

Far away from the spotlight a seven year old Trenton girl was bullied too. Her step-sister sold her for sex. Men and boys repeatedly gang-raped the child in a vacant apartment at the Rowan Towers housing project less than a mile from the dome of the New Jersey statehouse while the step-sister looked on.

Yesterday Mercer County Superior Court Judge F. Lee Forrester sentenced the 15-year-old who pimped her baby sister to a year in detention.

The teenage girl originally was charged with aggravated sexual assault, criminal restraint, terroristic threats, promoting prostitution and endangering the welfare of a minor . . . [T]he girl pleaded guilty in juvenile court to child endangerment and was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention. . .

Tyler Clementi was an adult. Yet it is he who is eulogized as the victim of vicious bullying because his roommate mocked his choice of sexual partners.

The 7-year-old Trenton girl had no choice. Where are the cries of outrage from the anti-bullying activists? They're too busy introducing federal legislation to combat the apparent scourge of college roommate harassment across the country.

Give me a break. The over-reaction to one gay kid's unfortunate suicide needs to stop. When 7-year-olds are gang-raped and our justice system hands out a slap on the wrist it's time to readjust our priorities. Gay college kids ought to man-up and fend for themselves. It's not like they don't have enough "support groups" already. Another one, even it it is federally sanctioned, won't make much of a difference.

The law exists to protect the truly helpless, and when it comes to 7-year-old girls in Trenton the law doesn't come close to doing that. But what's really sad is that so very few of the people who claim to care about helpless victims have the time or the inclination to care about her.

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