Victim blaming is the act of saying, implying, or treating a person who has experienced harmful or abusive behavior like it was a result of something they did or said, rather than placing the responsibility on the perpetrator, or person who did the harm. The most blatant example would be blaming a rape victim for causing the other person to commit the crime – it was their clothes, or behavior. It was their fault for putting themselves in the situation to begin with. That last example is exactly what happened to Sandra Cheskey.

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