premiere hotch speculation

[ohshiznaps.livejournal.com]

This was discussed briefly on the episode discussion post, but i felt it needed it's own as it could be a HUGE added pain for our beloved leader.

The reaper, Hotch... was there a rape? it was most definitely insinuated, but i felt it was more of a "wait, WHAT?!" moment that passed to quickly to get  a full read on the situation.

im thinking no. if it had, i feel they would have put in more content to support it. all we really saw was a stab that looked below the belt. and the reaper was still fully in pants through the whole thing. 

unless it's something hotch blocked from his memory...

does anyone remember what the reaper said to him? about stabbing being a substitute for sex?

  if this has been discussed or anything already, feel free to mod it up.

Comments

[ohshiznaps.livejournal.com]

wouldnt the doctors have noticed and reported in the file that there was evidence of rape?

[glitter-my-glam.livejournal.com]

I doubt they'd tell the team without provocation though. That seems like something they wouldn't just share with anybody.

[ohshiznaps.livejournal.com]

i didnt mean they would share it with the team, but maybe they have record of it happening and it's in his file if he doesnt remember

[annievh.livejournal.com]

they would hv to tell his next of kin (did I spell this right?), or so i guess.

[innerslytherin]

They wouldn't tell the team, because HIPPA would prevent that. In fact, HIPPA should have prevented Emily from being able to look at his chart the way she did. BUT, that being said and this being magic TV-land, rape would have been noted on that chart, and Emily would have seen it.

[glitter-my-glam.livejournal.com]

Riiight, I totally forgot she looked over his chart.

[innerslytherin]

LOL yeah, and my nurse friends are all frothing at the mouth over that. *G*

[yamair.livejournal.com]

I thought they'd have to report it because his attack was being investigated, but your point about it being on the chart is good.

[lagolindari.livejournal.com]

Well, considering it's FBI... Hotch's superiors will have to know everything in order to evaluat wheter to send him to a shrink - which I think they will (or at least should) do...

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

When a man suffering 9 stab wounds comes in, they are generally not going to do a rape examination. Without obvious injury to that area, they are going to treat the major wounds first. The social expectation of male rape is also much lower.

Also, in my experience, they have to ask to do a rape-examination. They can't just decide to do it while you're unconscious unless there is obvious injury.

[ohsillytwigg.livejournal.com]

"Also, in my experience, they have to ask to do a rape-examination."

as a social work student who works with rape victims, you're correct.