Currently, the most widely-shared image of the man responsible for sexually assaulting a sleeping 16 year old girl is a picture of a bright-eyed, smiling child. It was publicized in 2017 on his high school's website; at that time, he would have been 14 years old. It is in no way an appropriate representation of what Drew S. Clinton looked like in May 2021, when he was 18 years old.

In Judge Adrian's remarks that have been shared with the public, he refers to Clinton as, "this teenager," and, "this young man." He calls the assailant "Mr. Clinton." And truly, those words are not wholly inaccurate.

But what language does Judge Adrian use for the plaintiff, a minor child? He does not even reference her specifically; he references an indistinct, gendered group, calling them, "coeds," and "female people." That is also not wholly inaccurate, in the same way that publicizing a picture of a 14-year-old version of a person is still technically an image of that person. Contextually, however, that feels falsely representative and bias, as the language Judge Adrian used to refer to the two parties as, "this young man," and "coeds and female people."

Those scales are not level.

Justice is supposed to be blind. But as we all know, this is 2022. We are here on the internet, and more space of the human brain is allocated to the sense of sight than any other form of perception. So we need you to see the truth.

Drew Clinton was 18 years old before the time of the assault. He did not "turn 18 in jail," as we have seen sympathizers proport. He is not a 14-year-old, like he was in 2017. If Judge Adrian feels that a 16-year-old girl was old enough to have known better than to swim in her underwear if she didn't want "these things [to] happen," then it would be equally fair for an 18-year-old adult to understand he should not take advantage of a sleeping, intoxicated minor.

Thank you.

(Image: left, Drew S Clinton public Facebook profile picture; right, a publicly-shared Twitter photo depicting Drew S Clinton and an anonymous female)