No there is not a video. There is a police report. I've read it. There are photos of what she looked like that apparently back up the police report, otherwise Chris Brown, being a famous guy in L.A., would have skated. (I live in L.A., so I'm not being regionalist, just factual)

Rihanna was savagely beaten by Chris Brown, he also attempted to push her out of the car, and he bit her, more than once. So far as I've heard, he hasn't even slightly denied it was him. He's just "saddened"...

Like it or not, Rihanna is a role model for millions of teenagers and young adults and right now what she's role-modeling is how to turn into a serial punching bag.

She is teaching girls and boys, men and women to minimize violence and excuse the criminal who assaulted her. Even Chris Brown's fake "apology" makes it sound like he had less to do with what happened to Rihanna than he did with Hurricane Katrina touching down -- he's "saddened"? Right, but is he "sorry"? Is he ashamed? Because he should be. He should also be in jail, because he is clearly a very dangerous young man. Read the police report and the extent of what he did to her. For God's sake, he didn't just lose his temper and flail out, he BIT her. That's more than just an out-of-control temper, that's someone who's sick and sadistic -- someone who doesn't just want to bruise someone but to disfigure them.

His fake apology is the work of PR flaks who want to chacterize their client's brutal attack on a young woman as a fluke, like getting hit by lightning -- except lightning rarely strikes twice and abusers always do.

Rihanna has a responsibility, because she is a public figure with influence over young girls and young boys. You don't even need to see the photos, just read the police report. Made me sick to my stomach. And honestly, a girl who knew enough to clasp her hands at the back of her head and close her elbows around her head in an attempt to protect her face is someone who's been hit before.

I know she's young. But this is 2009. She needs to step up, for herself and the generation she's influencing and say, "This is enough. I, and every other woman, deserve to be respected and will not tolerate being assaulted"

The Church really doesn't care what happens to women and little girls. This story, while horrific, doesn't come as much of a surprise. There are at least recent two instances when little girls who suffer from celiac disease were refused the sacrament of First Communion because they couldn't eat anything with wheat in it (it would have caused them tremendous pain, as well as other severe health complications) and the Church refused to allow another grain to be substituted. The issue wasn't whether or not little girls would be subjected to terrible pain and life-threatening consequences, for the Church it was wheat or nothing. Very merciful.

And let's not forget that the whole priest-abuse scandal blew up over the molestation of little boys. But priests had been raping and molesting little girls, and big girls, for decades (if not centuries) with complete impunity. "60 Minutes" did a story, years ago, about how the Church would find out a priest was raping or molesting girls, and just pack him off, I believe to a parish or several parishes in New Mexico. I guess the Church feels molesting or raping a little girl is “tsk-tsk” bad, but not an abomination like molesting boys. At least girl-molesting priests aren't gay (Church's logic, not mine. I know most boy-molesters identify as straight)

Did anyone else see where msnbc.com referred to this pregnant little girl as an "alleged" rape victim?