H/T Taffy in Canada
Daily Mail:
- Hero stopped when others had passed by, ignoring the girl
- After being turned away from hostel he called police from a block of flats
- The rapist was jailed for 10 years after also exposing himself to the judge
KATHARINE BARNEY
PUBLISHED: 06:05 EST, 21 September 2012 | UPDATED: 10:24 EST, 21 September 2012
A good Samaritan who came to the aid of a naked and battered rape victim has told how they were turned away from the Salvation Army because ‘they only help men’.
Elliott Mannix, 18, managed to scare off rapist Mawawe Ibraham Karam as he lurked near his terrified and screaming victim.
Several other passers-by had ignored the 17-year-old A-Level student’s pleas for help but hero Mr Mannix came to her rescue as she stood nude and bleeding in the street.
‘Appalling’: Mawawe Ibraham Karam (left) was jailed for ten years for the attack while Elliot Mannix (right) helped the victim afterwards
But incredibly, when he took the Oxford University hopeful to the Salvation Army hostel to call for help, in Sneinton, Nottingham, their desperate pleas were ignored.
Mr Mannix said: ‘I desperately rang the buzzer at the hostel but the guy on the intercom just said we only help men here.
‘We were still passing people and I said, ‘Please help me, this girl has just been raped’, but they all ignored us.
‘Taxi drivers just pretended they didn’t hear me right.’
Karam raped and attacked his victim for 90 minutes after she had enjoyed a night out in Nottingham city centre, on March 25 this year.
I’ve seen “bystander apathy” which I call cowardice when I stepped in to help a bleeding, naked, screaming girl being dragged out of a ravine, in broad daylight on a Sunday afternoon. In fact I’ll never forget it because that’s when I lost respect for humans, especially the ones sitting in their cars with their kids watching everything that was happening & doing absolutely nothing to help.. Do not assume people will help you, try to always be prepared to protect & help yourself if push comes to shove.
That’s the last time I help out the Salvation Army. Call themselves Christians? They’re just on the moneymaking bandwagon and out for their own power and glory. Shame on the passers-by as well. Years ago there would have been no shortage of people to help her out – what have we come to?
The people who did this need to be fired and if possible prosecuted.
People are cowards.