#why won't anyone acknowledge this serious crime

[doomspaniels]

During Story Time, Gwyn found a sock that none of us will claim. She was adamant that someone acknowledge her terrible, naughty, rotten crime (the Spaniels recognize all these words as associated with treats 😄). But nobody here wears ankle socks... now we're concerned she might have access to Hammerspace.

[luveline]

Hi idk if u have already written this if u have pls igonore but what about the first time bombshell reader calls Spencer beautiful?

fem, 1k

“Gideon has a new prodigy.” 

Your head rises of its own accord. “Yeah?” 

“He's younger than you. Twenty three, I think Hotch said. Fresh out of college, two degrees and working on a third? Or maybe he was getting his doctorate? I couldn't keep up.” Morgan shakes his head in disapproval. “Overeducated and under-experienced. He failed his physicals. The ones he took, anyways.” 

“Ooh, ouch. A baby on the team before me,” you joke with a smile. “Genius baby, but a baby.” 

Morgan smiles when you smile, he's too nice not to, but he picks up soon enough, crossing his arms where he's stood and wrinkling what was once a finely steamed suit jacket. “I don't know what Gideon's thinking.” 

“Does anyone ever know what he's thinking? What's Hotch say about it all?” 

Morgan reads what you're typing from over your shoulder and corrects a mistake. One day you won't need his help, but for now you take as much of it as you can get. You're not too proud to acknowledge when you mess up, you're a realist. Super sensible (in mind if not action). 

“Hotch lets Gideon do what he wants, mostly. What can you do when he's one of the originals?” Morgan leans heavily onto his desk by the forearms and shrugs. You’re similar in this regard; complain, move on. You're similar in other ways, too. That's why you get along. 

“Well, I want to meet this guy,” you say. “We'll be teammates just as soon as Strauss stops hating me. I'm one strategic boxed bouquet from a full pardon.” He laughs and touches your arm like he believes you. “Is he around?” 

“Here they are now.” 

You spin in Morgan's desk chair slowly. Jason Gideon is stalking through the office with his head in the contents of a manilla envelope, while a new face follows behind him talking a mile a minute. 

“Obviously,” you hear Gideon interrupt as they get close enough. “Agent Morgan can explain that to you. Don't overthink it, Spencer, just try to get through it.” 

He doesn't acknowledge you nor Morgan as he leaves Spencer and hurries up the steps leading to his and Hotch's offices. You aren't expecting much else from him. What little Gideon knows about you he doesn't like. If you ever get over the Strauss hurdle, it's him you'd have to convince next. You don't watch him cross the landing, your gaze focused on the man making his timid way toward you. Your lips part briefly, and then quirk into an overjoyed smile. 

“Oh, you're beautiful,” you say without thinking. 

He frowns at you. 

“Reid,” Morgan interrupts, “This is Y/N L/N. She works in the sex crimes division. As you can imagine, we get a lot of crossover.” You stand, holding out your hand. “Y/N, this is Spencer Reid.” 

“I don't shake. Sorry.” 

You press your hand to your chest. “Oh, that's okay. I shouldn't assume…” Your voice melds into a silkiness that has his shapely brows furrowing further, “It's nice to meet you, Spencer Reid. You're really pretty, do you know that?” 

Spencer peeks at Morgan quickly, who laughs good-naturedly. “She's serious, Reid. She's not making fun of you.” 

“You'd know,” Spencer says. It isn't malicious, but it isn't exactly friendly, either.

You twist to frown at Morgan deeply. “Morgan, you're not being nice to him?” 

“I'm being plenty nice, sweetheart, but this is how it works. I gotta haze him a little.” 

“No, you don't.” You tip your cheek toward your shoulder to look at Spencer through your lashes. “He pretends to be worse than he is, I promise. But don't let him neg you, okay? You're smarter than he is–” 

“Hey.” 

“–and he's used to being the office pretty boy. It's jealousy, nothing else,” you finish. Spencer really is gorgeous now you're close enough to see his eyes. A brown like caramelised sugar tented by dark, dark eyelashes. When he smiles, the very slightest hint of teeth shows, and it makes him even prettier. You endeavour to make him smile again. “Sorry if I'm coming off a little strong. It's not my intention.” 

“She's just nervous. You have everything she wants,” Morgan says. 

You sigh forlornly. “Oh, doesn't he?” Spencer's confused pout is even cuter than his smile. “Getting into the BAU is about as easy as walking on water.” 

“For a human,” Spencer says. “Easier if you're smaller. Like a water strider.” 

There's a silence. Morgan is aghast, you think. You're in love. 

“Yeah?” you ask, stars in your eyes as his own spark to life. 

“Because water strider's can transfer their weight, but also due to their hydrofuge hairpiles. Their microhairs.” He catches himself, measuring your expression carefully. “Did you really wanna know?” 

“Do you wanna get a cup of coffee and tell me about it?” you ask. 

His lips part as yours had when you first saw him. 

He's prevented from answering as Hotch's office door opens and the man himself walks out near the railing. “Good, you’re here. I have something to talk to you about.” 

You grin at him. “I'd love to chat, Agent Hotchner, but I'm getting to know your new protégé.”

“I see.” He waits. 

You would ignore him —Hotch has a soft spot for you (or rather, he likes you enough to put up with you, which is more than can be said about other members of his division) and he'd shrug off your dismissal— but you're really keen to hear what he has to say. Perhaps Strauss has changed her mind about your proposed trail basis with the team. 

“I'm so sorry,” you say to Spencer, immediately re-dazzled by his pretty, lovely face. “It was really nice to meet you, Spencer Reid. Maybe next time you can tell me more about it.” 

You give Morgan a quick thank you for the help with your paperwork and trust him to log out of your emails. In your rush up the stairs, you hear a wisp of conversation. 

“Was she messing with me?” 

Morgan laughs. “No, kid. That's how she is.” 

"Oh... She's nice."

"You have no idea."

[msclaritea]

Canadian police won't investigate doctor for sterilizing Indigenous woman - ABC News

"The Canadian government says it is urgently trying to end the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, describing the practice as a human rights violation and a prosecutable offense. Yet police say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor apologized for his “unprofessional conduct” in sterilizing an Inuit woman.

In July, The Associated Press reported on the case of an Inuit woman in Yellowknife who had surgery in 2019 aimed at relieving her abdominal pain. The obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Andrew Kotaska, did not have the woman’s consent to sterilize her, and he did so over the objections of other medical personnel in the operating room. She is now suing him.

“This is a pivotal case for Canada because it shows that forced sterilization is still happening,” said Dr. Unjali Malhotra, of the First Nations Health Authority in British Columbia. “It’s time that it be treated as a crime.”

Kotaska declined to comment to the AP. Last month, he released a public apology, acknowledging the sterilization “caused suffering for my patient.” He said he was acting in what he thought was the woman's best interest.

The Canadian government has said that anyone who commits forced sterilization could be subject to assault charges and that police are responsible for deciding whether to proceed with criminal investigations.

But the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they would not be investigating Kotaska, because the woman hasn't filed a criminal complaint.

Kotaska’s statement is “very likely to not be admissible in a criminal court proceeding” and the victim would need to let investigators see her confidential medical records, the RCMP said. The police said they “respect the rights of the victim to seek justice for this through other legal mechanisms and choose which processes she participates in.”

The woman’s lawyer, Steven Cooper, said she is unwilling to proceed with a criminal complaint and remains traumatized from having participated in a medical board investigation.

Lisa Kelly, who teaches criminal law at Queen’s University in Ontario, said there is no requirement in Canada’s legal system for a victim to participate, if there is other compelling evidence.

“In this case, there is another doctor and nurse, and possibly others, who could provide credible and reliable evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the patient had not consented to the sterilization,” Kelly said.

While police and prosecutors have discretion, Kelly said, they "do not have the discretion to simply turn a blind eye to what appears to be evidence of a serious aggravated assault.”

Sen. Yvonne Boyer, who has proposed law would make forced sterilization itself a crime, said the long history of mistrust between Indigenous people and the police made it difficult for many victims to pursue criminal prosecution.

“If a police officer becomes aware of a crime being committed, they have an obligation to investigate,” Boyer said. “Why would it be any different for an Indigenous woman being sterilized without consent?”

The woman sterilized by Kotaska sued him and the hospital for 6 million Canadian dollars ($4.46 million), alleging his actions were “oppressive and malicious.”

In May, medical authorities in the Northwest Territories suspended Kotaska’s license for five months, forced him to pay part of the cost of their investigation and required him to take an ethics course after finding him guilty of “misconduct.” Noting these punishments were now completed, Kotaska said he hoped to “continue working with humility.”

Emma Cunliffe, a law professor at the University of British Columbia, called it "a very light suspension for forcibly sterilizing someone.”

She added: “It sends a very disturbing message that these violations of Indigenous women are not viewed as serious.”

The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content."

[gothjeffskinner]

This post and specifically the OP are well intentioned but everything after the first post is actually contradictory to the initial thought.

America hates 'cults' but has absolutely normalized mainstream religious abuse! this is the fact the op correctly observes in the first post.

The answer is not broaden the definition of cults as the op tries to do but to be critical of why the term exists.

Cults as a concept exist to demonize religion that is outside of the status quo.

The term in its modern context emerges during the great migration to portray black religious movements as harmful or evil. Today the connotation is an abusive organization (often religious) that exists outside the status quo.

Cults have to be exceptional groups that anyone can fall victim to because otherwise people would leave or at least be aware of their normal institution's abuse. Cults also need to be portrayed as brainwashers who are entirely coercive so any counter-culture thought found appealing by members or the public can be dismissed on principal. Cult experts and the anti-cult movement are key in reinforcing these ideas.

(Steven Hassan is bullshit and has been called out on it before)[ fyi brainwashing is a term created by the CIA to explain how the Chinese government indoctrinated people, it was key to dismissing POW's admissions of war crimes on behalf of the U.S. never trust people who think it's a real thing]

The use of the word 'cult' is really dangerous with how much connotation is carries and has had serious implication in court cases and stuff.

Instead please promote the acknowledgement of religious abuse or abuse enacted by or within an organization. Also while anyone can be a victim of abuse you can absolutely avoid or leave a harmful group by being critical of the intentions, structure, spread of info etc. Everyone who joins a cult (children brought into them are a dif thing) made a choice to join and has some level of autonomy otherwise it would just be a kidnapping, you HAVE to respect that autonomy before you do anything to help a 'victim'.

tldr:

cults are just religious abuse with a fancy name so people won't think critically about the 'cult' or normalized religious abuse. treat victims of religious abuse the same way you would with other forms of abuse

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

[violentsinnxr]

Cinnabar stands before the Chief in his office, her hands held together behind her back, body straight and taut, and her lips pursed into a thin lineーready to accept whatever reprimand the Chief imposes.

...He didn't know where to start. Plenty of reports like the one he had in hand made their way to his desk previously, but he never thought one of them could concern a person as serious and dedicated to her work as Cinnabar.

The Chief didn't even want to acknowledge it, to believe it. Yet there it was, all written down in a single report.

He didn't want to be harsh on her, especially since she completed her latest dispatch mission without any casualties but... They both knew of her mistake and Cinnabar looked ready to accept whatever would come her way as a punishment.

A long sigh resonated within his office as he finally looked up. He didn't want to say anything but he felt like he had to... And thus, after an unbearable silence, the Chief of Minos started reading the report.

❝ MBCC-S-299, Sinner Cinnabar, went missing during a dispatch mission in Nirvana Industrial Park, located in Eastside, leaving MBCC-S-028, Sinner Zoya as well as MBCC-S-555, Sinner Macchiato alone to handle the last remaining hours of their mission, only to return at the very end. ❞

He stopped there, leaving assumptions and allegations behind as they did not make sense anyway. The Chief knew Cinnabar. What she went through, what she accomplished...

Her so-called crimes were offenses he would have made as well if he was in her position but right now, he wasn't. And that was the main reason why this report honestly bothered him. He had to be that annoying figure of authority in this situation. The very same that he despises whenever the Public Security Bureau openly criticizes his choices.

❝ ...I won't ask why. I won't. I won't talk about it anymore after this. Not to you, not to Nightingale, not to anyone else. Zoya and Macchiato didn't complain either despite their minor injuries and this only came to my attention because their shackles don't allow them to omit any details in their report. I really want to believe that you had a good reason for what you did. That being said... I need to be informed of decisions like these the moment they are taken. Not hours after the fact. ❞

He finally put the report down and looked away, not having the heart to look at Cinnabar after that.

❝ ...Should I be offended? Was that proof that you don't trust me as much as I trust you? ❞ he softly asked, looking by the window while it started to rain.

❝ To be completely honest with you, I expected this from other Sinners. Not you. As I said before, I want to believe that you had a good reason, which is why I don't even feel the need to ask for it. But still, I'm just... ❞

He sighed, not wanting to let these words escape his lips as he shifted his attention back to Cinnabar...

❝ I'm just really disappointed. That's all I wanted to say. ❞

❝ You won't be sanctioned for it. I merely ask of you to think about what happened, though I can tell you've already been doing that. You can go now. ❞

[angelfireeast]

To get a jury trial she have to plead not guilty. She knows she guilty and she not doing that. There no way she can take full accountability and but at the same time deny she's responsible for the crimes to get a jury trial. If they wanted to arrest Frost who didn't want take accountability put her on trail make this a four ep plot and then have her realize she needs to take accountability at the end so be it but they choose this. Frankly it makes Frost come off better to take full accountability. You seem to ignore Frost's wishes about accountability and jail time.

You are upset that Frost took accountability for her actions and are now upset that I thought you didn't want Frost too accountability and face justice for her actions. Gee I wonder why I thought that

I brought up her other crimes to explain why Frost is fine with life in jail. She knows she deserves it for what she done. You don't get community service for type of things she done. She still would get jail time. She was fine with jail time at the start of the episode before cure angle came in. Yes I keep mentioning it as part of Frost atoning because SHE ACCEPTED it as part of her atonement. She is lucky they didn't know to charge her with the murder and attempted murders cause she certainly won't get community service. She knew she won't get outright community service for crimes she charged with and she prepared to do the time. She viewed it as part of her taking responsibility for her actions. She did the crime and she was willing to do the time like anyone else. Funny how you can't accept that.

Go ahead try to distract the topic but bring up other characters but this is about Frost paying for her actions as Killer Frost. She was never going to escape jail time completely. They tried to make her victim and then a hero with this life time in jail "cure" stuff. They could just killed her to write out but they tried to make her a hero and victim. To me the sentence is fitting for her ALL the crimes we the viewer know she comminited and she finally became a good person by atoning for her crimes by acknowledging she did wrong. It wasn't all of crimes addresses which still bugs me but I'm trying to give her the befit of the doubt with accepting life she's acknowledging the more serious crimes, ones that hurt the people she views as family now, that honsetly need addressing for her to be truely redeemed. But I could go on thinking of her as a heartless bitch who doesn't care that she tried to murder Cisco, Iris and others & views herself as someone who deserves no fall for that if you think that's better?

Why would Frost not go to trial? She is friends with the Flash aka the hero of central city and police captain Joe West? Both of them would take the stand as character witnesses to say how much she grew? Okay even if the flash cant take the stand he can make public statements? Also Iris runs a newspaper... she can't have an outside pro-Frost writer publish an op-ed? Like she should have contacts like... Linda Park? And yes juries are sequestered but its the age of technology and it's impossible to completely shield a jury... and if the public started to rally in favor of Frost it could make a difference in sentencing? And with the right jury if she made her case about growth and change she could have won? And that would still be her taking accountability because she is admitting to everything?

I know the point was to make a statement about the cure, but like the more I think about it the dumber this is...