Usually, seeing the word sexual assault will make people shudder, not to mention the victims of sexual assault, just recalling the encounter at that time, it is like the old wound has been torn open fiercely.
But what if one day someone plays an image of them being violated in front of the victims and forces them to see how they were sexually assaulted?
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Recently, some media exposed that a variety show in Spain played the scene of her being sexually assaulted without the female guest's knowledge and warning, resulting in the collapse of the female guest on the spot.
This variety show is the Spanish version of "Big Brother".
"Big Brother" is a social experiment reality SHOW, the original version from the Netherlands, because the novel program setting spread all over the world, soon derived the American version, the British version, etc., and in many countries have developed into a program that has been broadcast for more than a decade.
In this reality show, the program team will select some ordinary people or local celebrities to participate in the show, which is called housemates . They were all gathered in a specially built house with cameras strewn around. The contestants were required to wear microphones, and every moment of every day was recorded by the program team and completely isolated from the outside world.
They are asked to complete some tasks, and the one who gives them the task is the authoritative role set by the program team: Big Brother. (Actually, it's the program group)
And there is also a set up place in the show called the confession room, which is used for contestants to talk to Big Brother, vote, etc.
The overall rule of the show is that the contestants have to vote on their roommates every week, choose the least favorite people and then eliminate them, and the last person left behind is the champion and will receive huge prize money.
At first glance, this show is still quite attractive, I believe that no one will feel that their last show, there is no way to be guaranteed personal safety, not to mention a camera standby program all day.
No one will believe that when an injury occurs, the victim is not facing a remedy, not a comfort, not a cure, but an equally cruel secondary injury.
The girl who was hurt, called Carlota Prado, and the man who sexually assaulted her, named Jose Maria Lopez Perez, were both contestants who participated in the show in 2017. The two who met because of this show also developed a relationship during the recording process.
(Sexual predator)
But on November 4, 2017, something happened that plunged Carlota into the abyss of pain. It was a Saturday morning, and the night before the house had a boogie, and Carlota was drunk in the middle of it.
It was then that Jose came to Carlota and began to use his hands and feet on her. From a video pulled out by netizens, it can be seen that the man has made an attempt to undo the woman's pants, but stopped after someone came. Then he pulled the drunken woman off the couch. Netizens said that the video can clearly see that Carlota was unwilling and refused when she was taken off the sofa.
Jose takes Carlota to bed and wants to have sex with her, and Carlota's answer is: No, I can't.
A drunken Carlota then collapsed on her bed, while Jose ignored her explicit refusal, followed by a five-minute assault.
When Carlota woke up, Jose told Carlota, as if she were okay, that she had been drunk last night and had taken care of herself all night.
Carlota didn't know she had been sexually assaulted, and the program team didn't tell her.
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What is the program team doing? In a room full of cameras, recording around the clock, didn't anyone see Jose's various violations of Carlota? No one has taken action to stop this crime?
The most incomprehensible thing is that after the sexual assault, the first thing the show did was not to help her and comfort her, but to call Carlota to the confession room and then let her see the picture of herself when she was sexually assaulted.
And while playing, he locked her in the house and forbade her to leave.
Carlota collapsed on the spot.
She stared at the screen with wide eyes, shook her head in disbelief, and then covered her face, momentarily out of control.
"Will people see this?" Carlota asked crying. Big Brother replied that the video would not be sent out.
"What about the others?"
"As an aggressor, he has been fired."
"So I can't even talk to him, can I?"
"No, but I want you to know that the organization will not condone this behavior."
"I will not forgive, how can I forgive?" I just want to know why I didn't even have the option to talk to him, why he never even took a stand on it, and why, you all know this very well..."
By this time, Carlota had been tortured to the point of collapse. She ran to the door and begged the program team to open the door, saying that she wanted to get out of here, a closed room, a display screen showing the video of her sexual assault, enough to make people depressed to madness. But the program team said: For the sake of you and him (the sexual predator) well, you can't leave.
She paced uneasily around the house, crying bitterly and pleading: Please.
In the video we can see, she cried for at least 5 minutes until two women entered at the end of the video, and the whole process was suffocating.
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Afterwards, Carlota was also told that the matter was not allowed to be told to others on the show.
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After knowing that Carlota was sexually assaulted, she still chose to clip these pictures out at the first time and play them to the victims.
Want to see if Carlota's reaction is strong enough, can they come up with the picture they want? Want to add a touch to your airplay? Want to make her already victimized, more unfortunate?
The program team's approach is equivalent to stabbing Carlota's old wound with a knife, but also filming Carlota's reaction after being injured twice.
Carlota said in a recent interview with El Confidencial: "They never asked me, I would like to see that, and if they did, my answer was definitely 'no'. ”
"Someone should have been with me at the time, a psychiatrist or someone else, someone who helped me face those terrible images."
But no one showed up, no one brought help to her in despair.
An expert on gender-based violence said that for Carlota, it was like another sexual assault, because she did not know that she was a victim of sexual assault before.
After the report exposing Carlota's encounter that year was issued, it instantly ignited people's anger. Netizens denounced the program group on social networks, condemned this atrocity of secondary harm, and launched an campaign in support of Carlota. Hit the topic #CarlotaNoEstasSola, meaning Carlota you're not alone.
Under tremendous pressure from public opinion, at least 20 brands such as Nestlé, PepsiCo and Maybelline (more than 40 have been reported to have announced that they would stop advertising on the channel where the show was located, saying that they would reject "any form of aggression and gender-based violence.".
The media side, which was under pressure, finally spoke out about this thing that they had been covering for almost three years. The media company that produced the show issued a statement claiming that the sexual assaulter had been expelled from the show at the time and that the victim had received professional help.
They also said that they did not intentionally film the sexual assault, but the show was recorded for 24 hours, but they still regretted what they did in the confession room.
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Finally, they mentioned that the decision to ask Carlota not to tell the other roommates was to protect her privacy, as it was to be reported to the police.
The act of using privacy as an excuse to silence victims and keep their mouths shut about pain is unheard of...
In Carlota's view, although the program team expelled the sexual assaulters at the time, this did not make up for their fault. They obviously saw and recorded the whole process of her sexual assault, but no one went to stop her. And in the past two years, the program team has not contacted her, they have been hiding the truth from the outside world, and even diverting their attention and shirking responsibility.
If carlota hadn't bravely stepped forward and told the truth now, no one would have known how much pain she had suffered.
Up to now, some people involved in the media have argued that they did make a mistake, and they saw that Jose was suspicious of what Carlota did, but felt that the two were lovers, so they did not take action.
However, drunken sexual assault is sexual assault, sexual assault between couples is also sexual assault, and our position of rejecting sexual violence cannot be changed because of any factors such as location, the status of the parties, and their relationship.
The behavior of the program team ignoring and then consuming the pain of others is outrageous.
Mediaset Espana, the channel's owner, even went so far as to say that they were also victims, and that some competing media groups wanted to discredit and damage their reputations because of the recent series of rape cases in Spain, which people continued to protest and demand stricter laws on sexual assault cases, which promoted the revival of the feminist movement in Spain.
But ten thousand steps back, did the competitors ask you to play those pictures to the victims? Did the competitors make you staff say "no" when the victim begged to leave? Are it the competitors who make you ignore the suffering of the victims and trample on the dignity of the victims?
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The shadow of the incident has always hung over Carlota, and for the past two years, she has had to undergo psychological and drug treatment, even so severe that she can't work.
The abuser Jose is still denying that he committed the sexual assault, and the program team is still shirking responsibility.
At present, the specific case is still under investigation and trial, whether Jose can be convicted, whether the show should be responsible for this, or how to be responsible, we still need to wait for a result.
But that is enough to provoke our reflection. People who do shows, and even those in the media industry, should at least understand what they're doing. You can't do something that destroys humanity and has no bottom line.
There is nothing wrong with your job producing cultural products that may be designed to provoke social reflection, perhaps to reflect a social phenomenon, or simply for entertainment, which may be a career ideal for you or a tool for your breadwinner.
But you are not qualified to entertain to death, not qualified to consume the suffering of others, not entitled to secondary harm to someone who has been sexually assaulted. You can't see only interests in your eyes, you can't care about the physical and mental feelings of others, you can't treat others as grass, and push people into the abyss for traffic and ratings.
When you ignore the suffering of others and revel in it, you are already on the side of the perpetrator.
Source: British Newspaper Sister