Matchbox Twenty singer Rob Thomas has suffered the embarrassment of appearing on the same radio show where a teenage rape victim was humiliated.
Thomas was on the Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O’Neil show on the Austereo Network across Australia. Their other “guest” this week was a teenage girl who they put through a lie detector test against her will only to discover that she had been raped at the age of 12.When the now 14 year old girl revealed on air that she had been raped, Kyle said. “Right. Is that the only experience you’ve had”.
Sandilands is today being criticised by rape crisis workers for his appalling handling of the situation and why a girl so young was put through such an ordeal on radio for the sake of ratings.
The interview with Rob Thomas, who is in Australia promoting his new album ‘Cradlesong’, had been pre-recorded earlier in the week.
