Posted on 06/11/2018 10:57:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
So those are our only options? Unquestioning belief in the mere accusation of rape by a woman or turning a blind eye to the actual assault of women?
How about a system in which we discard #metoo hysteria and return to the proven legal tenet of “innocent until PROVEN guilty”? And how about meting out criminal punishment to women who maliciously destroy mens’ lives by leveling heinous charges they know are false?
How about protecting the innocent of BOTH sexes, while punishing the guilty of both?
“The penalty for false accusation MUST be the same that the innocent man would have paid. NO exceptions”
That ought to eliminate most recantations.
ladyjane wrote:
vs. 50,000 women who actually were raped
Men are raped, too.
And most don’t bother to report it.
That is simple rational Justice.
But Lady Justice was abducted decades ago, and her whereabouts are still unknown...
I am outraged that either happens. If I had a female relative who was raped and had absolute certainty of his guilt, I’d be the one going on trial.
needs to be law. That includes “victims” witnesses, cops, DA’s and judges. Up to and including the death penalty.
Women can and do lie about anything and everything. So do men.
It is called Original Sin. Leftists refuse to acknowledge it, and think that governmental coerciokn can make people perfect.
Potiphar was not a king—he was an officer of Pharaoh’s and chief of the guard.
I’ve had both and they are both wrong.
I had a family member who was raped and one who was falsely accused of rape.
BOTH of these things are wrong. I do not assume any woman is lying or any man as automatically guilty without evidence.
Actually it is believed by many that more MEN are raped in prison than all the rapes of women in the US.
That's a pleasant fantasy, but American prosecutors strongly disagree with you.
Last time I checked, the average sentence for a man convicted of raping a woman was about eight years, and the average time served was about five years.
Women convicted of lying about being raped receive MUCH shorter sentences on the rare occasions when they are tried at all. I have never seen a study, but my impression is that sentences rarely go beyond one year, long on community service and receiving counseling, short on incarceration.
Usually, the false-accusing woman is treated as a victim deserving sympathy, not a criminal. In the case of Jackie Coakley, most media outlets declined to release her name. The poor dear had to be protected even after she had been proved a liar.
In my personal life I have encountered two instances of false accusation of rape. I wasn't the one accused, but in both cases I knew the accusations were false. In one case, the woman threatened the man after consensual sex. She said she would accuse him of rape unless he did something she wanted done. He declined. (Unfortunately I had to listen to the whole thing through the paper-thin walls of the cheap room I was renting.) In the other, the woman simply wanted attention and synmpathy, and she calculated correctly that she could get away with lying, so she did. (She admitted to me privately that there had been no rape attempt.) Fortunately, in neither case did the woman file a police complaint.
I did receive one false-accusation threat. A woman said she would tell police that I had tried to "molest" her, after I objected to her walking with a very loud boom box through a quiet residential neighborhood. Molestation is not quite rape, but she impressed me with the speed with which she came up with the false accusation. It took her about two seconds after I asked her to turn down the volume.
So, does objecting to false accusations of rape somehow endorse actual rape? Of course not. They are both serious crimes, only one of which is taken seriously in America.
Well, then.
Throw the guys to the wolves then...or you hate rape victims.
Yeah....I just borrowed that, I didn’t write the caption
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