Now the town is divided on the issue. To me it’s very simple, take Danny Foley’s side and you agree with sexual assault and are therefore a potential rapist or take the other side which rightfully thin[k]s a rapist should be punished by the law.Here's where I think there's a head which needs rolling:
[A]n escalating controversy over a sex assault case that... prompted the Kerry Rape Crisis Centre (KRCC) to query Circuit Court procedures that allowed 50 people to file past the shocked victim to express their sympathy with her attacker before he was even sentenced.Since people were wondering about his verdict:
Danny Foley (35) — who is now three days into serving his seven-year prison sentence, with two years suspended...Apparently, the burly Foley was caught on video camera carrying the "frail" woman to a waste pit behind the bar he worked at as a bouncer. This is Foley:
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The jury during the three day trial had heard that both met in a local nightclub. The woman had a number of drinks and when he bought her a Black Russian shot, she felt sick and wanted to go home.He also referred to her as a "wan" ("slut") during the trial. When you read that he confessed to lying, keep in mind that they produced videotape of him carrying her out there.Mr Foley accompanied her and after initially walking a distance he carried her towards the rear of a car park, where gardai later found him leaning over her. She was half-naked and semi-conscious, and was removed to hospital in a very distressed state...
[The judge stated in his ruling] “No reasonable man could believe a girl or woman in a condition like this could reasonably consent to a sexual encounter of any kind... From the medical evidence it was clear that she suffered extensive bruising, and numerous scratches consistent with being dragged.”
...Foley initially said he had come across her as he relieved himself, but later told gardai [?] he had lied, and claimed they had been together consensually.
