So I have been traumatized by a certain case for the past two years. I originally made a post about it on Reddit in a few different forums, but I later deleted it from some of them because I felt like I didn’t need to post it everywhere. This subreddit is one of the ones I deleted it from.

Here is the case I’m talking about: Richard Nilton Carrillo Troconis Venezuela 2006. https://panamericana.pe/nacionales/35021

He was a Peruvian man falsely accused of a crime he did not commit. In his area there was a serial rapist on the loose that was raping young female college students. The serial rapist had 25 victims. One of the alleged victims as pointed to Richard as the perpetrator and he was arrested. Despite testimony from 125 witnesses who refuted the accusations he was jailed without trial. It should also be noted that 50 people publicly protested his arrest. The police case against him relied on weak and contradictory statements, while 125 witnesses confirmed that Carrillo had been arrested in his home, far from the alleged crime scene. Where the police in the report claim they arrested him at the college saying he had just committed another rape.

While awaiting trial, Carrillo requested to be placed in protective custody due to the nature of the allegations. However, on the third day, he was targeted by a group of inmates who falsely believed he was guilty and used the accusation as a pretext to commit acts of sexual violence and torture against him—despite the fact that the accusations had not been proven and Carrillo had not been convicted. He was violently assaulted and abused, resulting in his death.

This occurred one day before his trial, meaning that if he had survived, his innocence would have been formally confirmed. In fact, just days after Carrillo’s death, additional attacks were committed by the actual perpetrator, conclusively proving that Carrillo had been wrongfully accused.

To make matters there exists videos such as shock and gore sometime after the events a 3 minute video of Richard’s Sexual abuse ended up online recorded by the very perpetrators and circulated online under the misleading title “Violador le aplican la ley del talión” (“Rapist receives an eye-for-an-eye justice”). And by this point Richard had already been proven innocent so this video probably did some damage to his name even more. The version with the title is removed but it can still be found under different titles, and continues to circulate, under different names even on gore and porn sites. Though it is now difficult to find and often regarded as lost media.

Anyway, the point is that this case made me realize how tone-deaf some people can be when it comes to taking prison rape seriously.

https://eji.org/news/alabama-man-daniel-williams-killed-after-days-long-assault-at-staton-prison/ Take the case of Daniel Williams, an inmate who was serving time for theft. He was kidnapped, hogtied, repeatedly sexually abused, passed around between inmates, and later died. This all happened shortly before he was supposed to be released. It’s disgusting that something like that was even allowed to happen.

While most people seemed to take his case seriously, you’ll still see comments saying things like, “He should have stayed out of prison.” While I agree that people should avoid committing crimes, that doesn’t justify what happened to him. I’ve also seen people say that he “must have done something” because “that doesn’t happen for no reason.” Their first reaction isn’t sympathy for the victim. Instead, they assume he somehow deserved it or that the people who did it were justified.

Let’s talk about this whole idea of “prison justice” for a second. Yes, sex offenders are often targeted in prison, and no one is surprised that they tend to have the hardest time there. But it feels like some people hear stories about “prison justice” and completely forget that the people carrying it out aren’t exactly the most stable or morally righteous individuals.

I also remember coming across a TikTok where a former inmate talked about being traumatized after witnessing another prisoner being gang-raped while everyone else stood by. He said he couldn’t intervene because he was just trying to survive himself. What disturbed me most was the reaction in the comments. People knew absolutely nothing about the victim. They didn’t know who he was, what he was incarcerated for, or anything about his case. Yet many immediately assumed that because he was being gang-raped, he must have deserved it. Some even praised the inmates who assaulted him, despite the fact that they had literally raped someone. I find that mindset incredibly dehumanizing. If a random person on the outside were gang-raped and you knew nothing about them, most people wouldn’t immediately assume they deserved it. But once the setting changes to a prison, some people seem willing to throw away that basic empathy and treat the assault itself as proof that the victim must have done something to deserve it.

What’s even worse is when people are asked about the possibility that innocent people could end up in prison. I’ve seen responses like, “Whatever. Not my problem,” or arguments that it’s an acceptable trade-off if a few innocent people are tortured, raped, or even killed. That way of thinking is disturbing to me because it dismisses innocent victims as if they’re just collateral damage.

And when someone prolongs another person’s suffering, keeps them alive as a sex toy before killing them—or even for the rest of their sentence—or records videos of their victim screaming, bleeding, and begging on the floor, it should be obvious that this isn’t about justice anymore. If you clicked the link above, you know exactly what I’m referring to. At that point, the person isn’t seeking justice. They’re using the situation to satisfy their own violent or sadistic desires.

Even when victims survive, many leave prison with severe psychological trauma. I once saw someone respond to that by saying, “Well, they’ll get compensated.” As if financial compensation somehow means they got a good deal out of the experience or should simply move on. You can probably see the problem with that mindset. Money doesn’t erase trauma.

Moving on, I recently came across an AI-generated video depicting Karmelo Anthony supposedly being raped in prison. The video showed him in a cell while three large men pinned him down as he cried.

Speaking as someone who believes Karmelo was guilty and should serve time for his crime, I still found that video absolutely repulsive. Wishing rape on someone or creating content that celebrates or fantasizes about it crosses a line. Whoever made that video is repulsive. Wanting someone to be held accountable for their crimes is one thing. Taking pleasure in the idea of them being sexually assaulted is something entirely different.