I had seen Mason’s Myspace status updates the last few days having something to do with rape. I just thought it was another one of his sexual fantasy stories that he had written. Little did I know the sad truth behind those updates.

I was doing my daily browsing of all the porn blogs this morning when I came across this story on my friend Dewayne’s blog that was covering this. I started to read it and the post cited Mason’s blog as the source. What I read there literally brought me to tears. The words and pictures on that page became too much for me to handle. I actually had to walk away for a minute before I could finish reading. Here is what happened as described by Mason in his blog:

The truth is I did get raped by a guy who claimed to be a Captain in the U.S. Army. And the truth is I did invite him into my home. He was attractive and he looked normal. I guess thats incredibly stupid of me to judge someones character based solely on appearances. But I trust people on day one until they lose it instead of making people earn my trust. We had a bit of small talk, he told me that he was gay, and that he had seen some of my work and kept up with my myspace page. In a joking manner he asked for his reward for finding my wallet and I did come on to him. I kissed him and he kissed me back. But within a few short moments things quickly turned ugly. All the sexual abuses that I listed in my faux news report truthfully happened to me.

Mason also printed that his attacker was arrested and he does plan to prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law. Mason took the first step in the right direction to getting justice by first reporting the crime. According to RAINN.ORG (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network), when a rape is reported, there is a 50.8% chance of an arrest being made. If an arrest is made, there is an 80% chance that there will be prosecution. But out of those prosecutions, only 58% stand the chance of conviction. Out of those convictions, there is only a 69% chance that the accused will face any jail time. When you boil all the math down, out of the 64,080 rapes reported every year, there is only a 16.9% chance the accused will go to jail.

I too have been a victim of a sexual assult. I was 14 years old when I was attacked by two seniors in my high school. I’m very fortunate that my attackers were convicted and are still in prison. My lawyers were able to not only convict them of rape, but also a hate crime. Imagine having to come out to your parents only because you were raped. But I wanted justice to be served. I can only hope the same for Mason.