Rape from I know why the caged bird sings
Uploaded by nye1324 on May 03, 2001
“I take a look through the bars at the last sights of a world that has gone very wrong for me. Can it be there’s some sort of error? It’s hard to stop the surmounting terror. Is it really the end, not some crazy dream? Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming. It's not so easy to stop from screaming, but words escape me when I try to speak. Tears, they flow, but why am I crying? I don't believe that there is never an end to the nightmare.” Humans never stop to think what the consequences of our behavior will be. We go about day after day, too preoccupied with unimportant things that we never stop to think what the result of our irresponsible actions will be.
We have not jet come to realize that life is like a pond, cast a stone into the water and you won’t prevent the ripple effect.
For the crime of grand auto theft, I hereby sentence you, to 7 years in the state penitentiary. The guard’s approached, handcuffed Alex, and took him away.
The judge made his decision and there is no turning back . Alex, would be spending seven years in jail for a foolish decision he made trying to impress his “friends.” Alex could only think off how he would not be able to do all the things he loved to do. For years, he had enjoyed car racing and his biggest passion consisted of rebuilding old cars. “I brought out the beauty in something that was just sitting there”, Alex stated with a big smile on his face. How could Alex imagine the horror that awaited him behind the stone walls of prison? How could he imagine that within the stone walls he would become just another victim of rape? Alex could not have expected that while in jail he would be viciously gang raped. Nothing in the world could have prepared Alex for the burden he would carry for the rest of his life.
“It was about fifteen years ago that I was sentenced to seven years to the State Pen. Those years are the years that I have tried and will continue to try to erase from my memory. I suppose I should tell you how I got myself into this horrible mess. My friends, or so I thought,” Alex stated with an almost sad smile on his face,...