Narration - Documentary Series, Serious Topic, Warm, Genuine, Serious
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North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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episode one, a monster reveals himself, Manhattan Kansas was just quieting down. It was June 2000 and four, a few weeks removed from Kansas State University's graduation ceremony, which overtakes the small city. The new graduates and their families were gone, and thousands of students had packed up their dorm rooms and apartments and headed home for the summer, turning Manhattan from a raucous college town into a sleepy Midwestern Hamlet. Almost overnight in 2000 and five, Beth finished her coursework on time and graduated from Kansas State. She left Manhattan at the end of the calendar year, but a few months before she did, another rape took place, just a two minute drive from the Chase Manhattan apartments. And it wasn't the only 13 more women in two separate incidents were also sexually assaulted, but not in Manhattan. This time, the rapes took place an hour east in another college town that was about to learn that they, too, were being terrorized by the same serial rapist. Abbey soon discovered that a group of students on the men's wrestling team who she knew encouraged one of their new recruits to sexually assault her. Abbey cried so much that the judge asked her to calm down so he could understand what she was saying. When she finished, the court heard testimony from the student who assaulted her. Then the judge gave his ruling. The man made sure toe always stay in between Abby and the doorway blocking it, restrained her hands with plastic handcuffs and turned on a video camera. Abbey quickly realized she was dealing with someone who had done this before. Over the last dozen years on Lee, one incident has been linked to the Kansas College rapist. U. S Marshal, psychologist and profiler Michael Berk has a few theories about why the attacks seemed to have stopped. For much of US history, rape has been treated far less seriously than other violent crimes. This convey seen in the laws written to prosecute and sentence rapists in the dramatic, under reporting of rapes and in how rape survivors have been treated by society. In fact, until recently, rape was barely a topic in the evolving narrative of American history, despite the fact that it is one of the country's most common violent crimes. This is something Professor Sharon Block learned very early on in her academic career.