Anonymous targets Maryville rape case

Elliot Hannon has a Slate article about Anonymous:

Over the weekend, the Kansas City Star published a damning account of a horrific rape case in Maryville, Missouri. The details of the case sparked outrage at the woeful miscarriage of justice that has become all too familiar. (Slate’s Emily Bazelon has a breakdown of the Maryville case.)
On Monday, Anonymous, the hacker collective, weighed in, demanding “an immediate investigation” into how local authorities handled the case. In a press release, the group announced #OpMaryville, saying:

If Maryville won't defend these young girls, if the police are too cowardly or corrupt to do their jobs, if justice system has abandoned them, then we will have to stand for them. Mayor Jim Fall, your hands are dirty. Maryville, expect us.

This isn’t the first time that Anonymous has taken up a cause where it felt justice was not served. “After Anonymous involved themselves in the Rehtaeh Parsons case, authorities under pressure acted more decisively in investigating the alleged assault,” Inquisitr reports. Anonymous was also active in the Steubenville, Ohio rape case earlier this year.
Over on Twitter, Anonymous is taking its case to the Internet:

Rico says it's good to see them weighing in on important stuff, not just the gummint...