There are some crimes that leave you saying “are you kidding me?” and this is just one of those crimes.

Early in the morning hours last Friday a woman was sexually assaulted in an alley off of 6th street in Austin. For those who don’t know the place it is a couple block strip of bars and nightclubs so it gets crazy with all the college kids from UT come the weekend.

Not being a drinker I have no reason to head down that part of town but this time I wish I had been there. You see a young woman out for a night on the town and either she didn’t follow the buddy system or it flat out failed.

Alone and stinking drunk (.32 B.A.C. yup 4 times the legal limit for driving for most states), she passed out in an alleyway behind a strip of bars. Now if all of this isn’t bad enough, 27-year-old Matthew Skontnicki comes along seeing her passed out he decides to sexually assault her.

You haven’t heard the worst yet. A crowd of on-lookers were said to have been cheering him on as he raped her. Thankfully 2 bouncers from one of the bars were taking out the trash and saw the assault. They stopped it and held the guy until the cops could come and arrest the lowlife.

I can’t even begin to imagine standing there in a crowd watching some lowlife assault some unconscious girl and doing nothing but cheering him on. I truly wish I had wandered by when this was taking place. The headline would have read “sexual attacker sent to hospital after meeting the business end of a steel baton!”.

What this young lady did, going out and getting so drunk was a huge mistake. But no one deserves to learn a lesson like this one. I hope they throw the book at this guy and that this young lady knows someone in prison who can say hi for her! /wink

The police are trying to find the people in the crowd and there may be more possible arrests. I agree 100% anyone who stands and does nothing but watches as a woman is attacked should also be charged. If more people starting watching the backs of other people we could put a stop to most of the garbage.

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