Editing Victim blaming (section)

===United States===
In 1938 the [[Madera Tribune]] ran the front-page headline ''"Mother Blames her Daughter Equally with Man for Murder"'' in describing the stabbing death of 19-year-old Leona Vlught in [[Oakland, California|Oakland]].<ref name="MotherBlamesDaughterEqually1938">{{cite news |date=December 9, 1938 |title=Mother Blames Her Daughter Equally With Man For Murder |volume=LXXIII |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |number=32 |place=Oakland, California |publication-place=Madera, California |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19381209.2.15&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=September 13, 2022 |quote=What a mother did not know about her own daughter softened today Mrs. Leonard Vlught's resentment against the boy who killed her. She wondered if she had given the girl too much freedom. She learned, too late, that her own child drank, went on a petting party when she was supposed to be spending the night with girl friends, and kept company with a youth whose crime career began when he was 12. Burdened with grief as she prepared to bury her daughter, the mother judged her for what had happened, and held her equally to blame.}}</ref> The victim's mother's "resentment against the boy who killed her" was said to be softened upon learning that her daughter drank alcohol and "went on a [[Flapper#Petting parties|petting party]] when she was supposed to be spending the night with girl friends".<ref name="MotherBlamesDaughterEqually1938" /> The perpetrator Rodney Greig was later convicted of the crime and executed in the [[San Quentin State Prison|San Quentin]] [[gas chamber]].

[[2010 gang rapes in Cleveland, Texas|In a 2010 case]], an 11-year-old female rape victim who suffered repeated [[gang rape]]s in [[Cleveland, Texas]], was accused by a defense attorney of being a seductress who lured men to their doom.<ref name="slate1">{{cite magazine |last=Adams |first=Sam |date=29 November 2012 |title=Cleveland, Texas rape case: Defense attorney calls pre-teen victim a spider, but that's his job |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/11/29/cleveland_texas_rape_case_defense_attorney_calls_pre_teen_victim_a_spider.html |magazine=Slate |access-date=28 April 2013}}</ref>  "Like [[The Spider and the Fly (poem)|the spider and the fly]]. Wasn't she saying, 'Come into my parlor', said the spider to the fly?", he asked a witness.<ref name="slate1" /> The ''[[New York Times]]'' ran an article uncritically reporting on the way many in the community blamed the victim, for which the newspaper later apologized.<ref name="slate1" /><ref>{{cite news |date=10 March 2011 |title=NY Times Defends Victim Blaming Coverage of Child Rape Case |publisher=Mediabistro.com |url=http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/ny-times-defends-victim-blaming-coverage-of-child-rape-case_b24236 |url-status=dead |access-date=28 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913030938/http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/ny-times-defends-victim-blaming-coverage-of-child-rape-case_b24236 |archive-date=13 September 2011}}</ref>