as the boys on last podcast on the left said in one of my favorite episodes: it's RAPE. it's VERY EASY TO SAY. he's a RAPIST.

saving the rest for the read more.

anyway, this was good but also infuriating. early on you see footage of krombach's television interview after getting probation for drugging and raping a minor in his clinic and the things he says are fucking revolting. the footage from an entire auditorium of men holding political office just straight up laughing at spousal rape is disgusting. and then you have lawyers try to whine about due process for a man who said if a woman is silent she must want it, about a woman who again, WAS DRUGGED. and o h m Y g O d i thought finally, by the end the mom is seeing the truth, and then

AND THEN

she says she wishes krombach would've told her it was an accident and he panicked and accidentally killed her daughter, because she might have been able to understand and forgive him.

I JUST. WHAT.

and ffs i don't understand how in 2022 we're still calling rape "sex acts", or how rapists are just referred to as "perverts". i get that these were older people discussing a 40 year old case but also that doesn't get to be an excuse anymore, we're all too old and i'm too tired for this shit

This was enraging to watch, but also very moving.

Not only is Krombach a disgusting human being with no remorse whatsoever, as is evident from the interview they showed about him raping a girl, but his lawyers are also disgusting. I understand that's your job, but to defend this man even outside of the courtroom? Knowing what he has been accused of time and time again, even serving time for it? My God, the way men will stand behind each other never ceases to amaze me.

Don't even get me started on his daughter. I understand loving your parent, but the moment my father is connected to raping several girls and is suspected of murder for good reason, he's dead to me. Also, Kalinka's mother shouldn't be called a mother at all. When she said she would've forgiven him if he said it was an accident, I was DONE.

Mr. Bamberski is a truly amazing man and I'm very happy Kalinka had him as a father. I'm very sorry he didn't get to see her grow up. I respect the lengths he went to for her, to get her the justice she deserved. As he said, it was an extreme battle and it cost him 39 years of his life, but Kalinka was worth it. He's a truly admirable man.