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Following news that the Maryville rape case will get a second chance in the Missouri justice system, a Fox News guest jumped on air to explain why he thought the allegations of rape from Daisy Coleman and Paige Parkhurst aren't true. Defense attorney Joseph DiBenedetto's take on the case on Thursday involved the phrase "I’m not saying she deserved to be raped," which for some will be enough to get where he's going with this. For everyone else, here's more: "there are telltale signs of this girl actually lying," DiBenedetto said of one of the girls in question. What were those signs? "She is leaving her home at 1 a.m. in the morning and nobody forced her to drink...what did she expect to happen at 1 a.m. after sneaking out."

Here's the transcript of that opening bit:

There’s no denying that from the surface it appears to be some sort of cover-up. But when you look at the finer details, there are telltale signs of this girl actually lying. She is leaving her home at 1 a.m. in the morning and nobody forced her to drink. And what happens? She gets caught by her mom, she’s embarrassed and the easy way out here is, ‘Mom, someone took advantage of me.’ But what did she expect to happen at 1 a.m. in the morning after sneaking out? I’m not saying — assuming that these facts are accurate and this did happen — I’m not saying she deserved to be raped, but knowing the facts as we do here including what the prosecutor has set forth, this case is going nowhere and it’s going nowhere quick.

To his credit, Fox News's Shepard Smith didn't allow his guest's victim blaming to go out into the world totally unquestioned. "What you’ve done, Joseph, is taken an alleged victim of rape and turned her into a liar and a crime committer,” Smith said at the end of the interview. He continued: “that’s a far jump from a 1,000 miles away.”