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Ingrid Betancourt's Struggle to Resume Life

14:01 H | Topics: Colombia - Controversia - Justice - Women

Amid rumors of a failing marriage, Ingrid Betancourt spoke to the press about how difficult the transition from captive to freed woman has been for her:

A collapse is coming, she said.

"It's like the roaring of the waves, I know it's coming, and it's getting closer," she said softly. "So I know it's time for me just to stop. I don't want to be submerged by depression."

Pay attention to how the article hints at the possibility of rape:

But she also is trying to avoid describing the details of her ordeal as an attractive woman in captivity in the jungle, a time when she was often chained, physically tortured and humiliated by armed and angry men, whose behavior, she said earlier, was "so monstrous I think they themselves were disgusted."

Although I guess I can understand why the press would only want to hint at rape until it's confirmed, the insinuation that female "attractiveness" inspires armed and angry men to rape is a bit problematic. There are other known instances of FARC using rape as a weapon against women and girls, would it be possible to reference those interactions rather than add the sensational and simply wrong inferences that "attractive" women inspire rape?