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Tom Leonard |
15 Dec 2005 |
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Speaks publicly about rape
The renowned Scottish poet Tom Leonard has questioned the canonisation of the young Maria Goretti – who died rather than allow herself to be raped. Drawing on his own experience as a young boy attacked at the age of 12, he says the story of Maria Goretti sends out a dangerous message - that it’s somehow better to die a virgin than submit to rape, and that those who are raped are somehow ‘less pure’ than those who resist.
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