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Thread #127384 Message #2844948
Posted By: Emma B
20-Feb-10 - 09:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'Some rape victims should take blame'- ??
Subject: RE: BS: 'Some rape victims should take blame'- ??
No one has argued that the cases of 'acquaitance' rape that make up the majority of rape situations is an easy one to prosecute as it is the word of one person against another - the figures I have quoted for the number of allegations never proceeded with bear this out.
But ake! you wrote -
"had sex(which he said was consentual or as near to consentual as they could remember)....
The problem here ake is that 'he' said the sex was consentual you do NOT say 'she' said it was, although by the context (reporting rape the following day) we assume she said it wasn't so we are back to one person's word against another.
Is the suggestion here that neither could remember with any accuracy? (you use the word 'they') - in which case was the man assuming consent even if the woman was very drunk or even unconscious - was he sober enough to justify his belief that the sex was consentual?
The reality here is that a case of this sort (his word against hers) would almost certainly never get beyond the reporting stage WHATEVER the actual circumstances.