Mugshots of six defendants in the Mount Rennie rape case. Twenty men and teenage boys had gang raped a 16-year-old servant girl in New South Wales. These six were among the 10 to be found guilty. It was the only gang rape in the region at the time to result in any convictions, 1886 [1705 x 881].
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[From Centenary to the Olympics, Gang Rape in Sydney](https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/CICrimJust/2004/22.pdf)
[Frenzy: The Story of the Mount Rennie Outrage](https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/21806/2/02whole.pdf)
From top to bottom, left to right: George Duffy, George Keegan, Hugh Miller, Robert Read, William Newman, William Boyce. Along with Michael Donnellan, Joseph Martin, and William Hill, they were convicted of rape at a mass trial and each sentenced to death after the judge ignored a recommendation for mercy from the jury. After a review of the cases, the sentences of everyone but Duffy, Martin, Boyce, and Read were commuted to life in prison. Another defendant, 35-year-old cab driver Charles Sweetman, was tried separately. He was convicted of being an accessory to rape and sentenced to 14 years in prison plus 50 lashes.
Duffy, 18, Martin, 17, Boyce, 21, and Read, 19, were executed by hanging at Darlinghurst Prison in New South Wales on January 7, 1887. Sweetman was released from prison in November 1895. In response to public pressure and accounting for time served, the others were all released on November 10, 1896, exactly 10 years after their convictions.
Due to the severity of the sentences, which outraged many, 16-year-old Mary Jane Hicks became one of most hated women in Sydney.
There’s an amazing novel about NYC in the early 1900’s and it features a horrifying, completely unexpected, gang rape scene that I still remember over a decade later. You see it from the girl’s perspective and there was a line, I’m paraphrasing here, that went something like “she watched these beardless, teenage boys, dressed in their fathers clothing, take turns with her and the seething pain between her legs”
The line just came back to me now while looking at these mugshots.
What gets me….
Even if you have a 100% misogynistic world view… Even if you view 20 men raping a woman as morally equivalent to them using a fleshlight….
…Who in the fuck wants to use the same fleshlight that 19 guys before you used??
And that’s 100% ignoring that we’re talking about a human being. WTF is wrong with these shitstains?