While new opinions are released daily which alternatively decry both Amanda Knox's innocence and guilt, a new article calls everyone following the case into question instead.

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The article, which appeared on The Huffington Post May 28, questions feminists who support Knox's innocence as to why they haven't fought back against the focus on her sexuality throughout the case, which has earned Knox a litany of sexual nicknames, including "Foxy Knoxy."

The article's author, Lisa Marie Basile, claims that as a whole, feminists have generally failed Knox and haven't properly come to her defense.

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"If that seems judgmental, it's because we as a society -- and perhaps we as feminists -- have failed Amanda Knox. People ask me why I care about this case. It is because I am a human and a feminist," she wrote.

Basile refers back to when she was following the case as a college student herself, reading headlines like "Satanic Ritual Gone Wrong" and "Sex Game Leads To Murder," and remembered thinking that the attention to sex didn't make sense, and was only helping to further convict Knox -- an example she now believes sexualized Knox to a point of making her appear like a guilty liar.

"They said she was a liar, which reminded me of a time when I was much younger and dealing with a legal case," Basile wrote. "While my experience had nothing to do with murder, I was, for all intents and purposes, considered a liar, a young girl with a bad M.O. I was sl-t-shamed for reporting a child-molester....Why are we, as a society, so quick to sexualize and blame victims on the very basis of gender? Why must we live by some imaginary angel/w---e binary?"

Basile's article comes just one month after the release of the Nencini report, which detailed the reason behind Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito being re-convicted this year in the 2007 murder of Knox's housemate, Meredith Kercher. The report, which stated multiple knife wounds on Kercher's body led prosecutors to believe there were multiple assailants involved, as well as reports that Kercher and Knox had quarreled over money on the day of the murder, also revealed for the first time that any sexual motives previously brought into the trial were now dismissed.

Prosecutors had previously argued a theory that Kercher was murdered after she refused to participate in a brutal sex game, though the Nencini Report now dismisses that.

The suspects "did not need to share a motive," the report stated.

Knox, Sollecito and a third man, Rudy Guede, were all arrested in connection to Kercher's death back in 2007. While Guede was convicted of murder and given a 16-year sentence, Knox and Sollecito both pleaded not guilty and served four years in an Italian prison before their convictions were overturned in 2011.

In January of this year, the Italian Court reconvicted Knox and Sollecito in a retrial that was reportedly focused on DNA evidence. At this trial, Knox was sentenced to 28 years in an Italian prison, while Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. They are both preparing appeals.

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