Rape Claim Wife gets 12 months

**Maggy** · 07-06-2005, 07:50

I hate it when women do this.It's dispicable and a slap in the face for real rape victims.

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I think she got off very lightly myself.

My sympathies to her husband,the formerly accused man and her child.

Has anyone here been the victim of such slurs and slanders?

Ramrod · 07-06-2005, 08:14

Read about this in todays Times.........I can't believe her callousness or her ineptitude.

Bex · 07-06-2005, 08:20

it just highlights for me what this world is turning into

paulyoung666 · 07-06-2005, 08:25

not nearly enough for her

Paul K · 07-06-2005, 08:28

The Mirror article is interesting. Wonder how true it is?

paulyoung666 · 07-06-2005, 08:34

****ing fruit loop by the sound of it

punky · 07-06-2005, 09:01

Absolutely despicable. She deserves way more than 12 months considering that if the guy was convicted, he would have done 12 years, and basically had his life ruined. Sex offenders don't exactly get an easy life inside or outside of jail.

This is my worst nightmare, and way too common. 12 months will be nothing to her

Pierre · 07-06-2005, 10:24

just another example where the law is an ass.

especially in these cases, where the accuser remains anomonous and the mans name is plastered all over the media whether he is guilty or not.

That surely needs to be changed.

**Chris** · 07-06-2005, 10:33

I wonder: if the alleged gang rape had been poosted on the forum when it occurred, how many people would have expressed an opinion that the man charged with it should have been strung up. Just as well the 'victim' eventually got him off the hook, eh?

Still, no smoke without fire, I bet he's a bad'un really ...

Chimaera · 07-06-2005, 10:42

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Originally Posted by Chris T

I wonder: if the alleged gang rape had been poosted on the forum when it occurred, how many people would have expressed an opinion that the man charged with it should have been strung up. Just as well the 'victim' eventually got him off the hook, eh?

Still, no smoke without fire, I bet he's a bad'un really ...

But it wasn't posted here. The case wasn't publicised in the news, as far as I can recall - so perhaps the Police smelled a rat from the outset?

Bex · 07-06-2005, 10:45

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Originally Posted by Chris T

I wonder: if the alleged gang rape had been poosted on the forum when it occurred, how many people would have expressed an opinion that the man charged with it should have been strung up. Just as well the 'victim' eventually got him off the hook, eh?

Still, no smoke without fire, I bet he's a bad'un really ...

very sarcastic post from you there chris (did someone get out the wrong side of the bed?).... but the sentiments make perfect sense. we've always said that we have emotive responses to news articles, it is the human way.

i guess this poor guy has learnt some lessons as well though... like picking up women in bars and having one night stands properly is not the best way to act.
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Originally Posted by Chimaera

But it wasn't posted here. The case wasn't publicised in the news, as far as I can recall - so perhaps the Police smelled a rat from the outset?

but he is saying if it was posted here... we would have all jumped on the band wagon and condemed this man

Salu · 07-06-2005, 10:51

It's very easy to jump to conclusions and very easy to typecast without knowing the full circumstances isn't it?

Pierre · 07-06-2005, 10:57

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Originally Posted by Chris T

Still, no smoke without fire, I bet he's a bad'un really ...

Just how exactly can you come to that conclusion from that article?

Or are you being sarcastic, and I'm so hungover I didn't realise

Bex · 07-06-2005, 10:57

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Originally Posted by Salu

It's very easy to jump to conclusions and very easy to typecast without knowing the full circumstances isn't it?

yes it is, maybe we should all learn from this never to take on face value everything the media claims (although as someone said maybe the original allegations were publised)

**Chris** · 07-06-2005, 11:01

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Originally Posted by Pierre

Just how exactly can you come to that conclusion from that article?

Or are you being sarcastic, and I'm so hungover I didn't realise

I have no reason to doubt that the man who was initially accused of rape is completely innocent not just of this crime but of any other sex crime. I was being sarcastic. I should do it more often, seeing as this little outburst of irony has confused so many people

What I'm trying to say is, we have here a classic case of someone being accused of the kind of crime that usually gets the pitchfork-weilding mob out in force. That accusation is later found to be baseless. Yet, if the initial accusation had been posted here, that man would doubtless have been hung, drawn and quartered, in a literary sense, within minutes.