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Posted by Charlotte on January 13, 2010
Tags: conviction, Law, Rape, Violence Against Women, Women
I just wanted to draw your attention to this case reported on the BBC website:
Men cleared as rape woman’s group sex fantasy revealed where a young woman’s accusation of gang rape has been undermined by her online fantasies about group sex.
But the trial at Preston Crown Court collapsed when computer evidence was produced showing her entertaining the prospect of group sex.
Judge Robert Brown ordered the jury to return not guilty verdicts
This is a very old trick of discrediting the witness, something you may know as “she was asking for it” The prosecutor was so convinced dirtying her virtue would make it acceptable for a woman to be raped that he presented no formal evidence, he simply read out msn transcripts.
He said: “It is right to say that there is material in the chatlogs from the complainant, who is prepared to entertain ideas of group sex with strangers, where to use her words ‘her morals go out of the window’.
Neither is the fact that she agreed to meet one man for sex an opener to be raped by his friends. I’m devastated, but not surprised, that the judge fell hook line and sinker for this line, after all we all know how ridiculously low the conviction rate for rape is in this country. But it sets a really dangerous precedent to rifle through a victims internet usage, much like her knicker drawer, and use her own sexuality and independent thought against her. It takes he said, she said to a whole new he thought, she thought level.
Tags for this post:conviction, Law, Rape, Violence Against Women, Women
April 14th, 2010 at 2:21 am
The only way this would be in any way fair AT ALL would be to dredge up all five of these rapist’s internet histories. Gee, I wonder what the probability would be of finding ideas about gang-banging an unsuspecting woman.
Unbelievable that this is happening in 2010.