Rape: two recent cases reveal that old attitudes die hard (if at all)Archived Message
Posted by walter on April 14, 2019, 4:34 pm
1) "Police officers are to face disciplinary charges over the case of a woman murdered after being stalked by her former partner, whose repeated pleas for help instead saw her fined for wasting police time."
"In March 2016 Lane chased Grice down the street, snatched her phone and pulled her hair. She complained to police, but when Lane was interviewed he showed police phone messages from her to him that he claimed proved they were in a relationship.
The attitude that being in a relationship disqualifies known violence from counting as 'real' violence ought not to exist, and certainly ought to have died out by now.
2) In another recent case a man was acquitted despite the woman having managed to record her rape - and the recording being played in court. The defence was that this was a 'role play'. Additionally, the defence appeared to successfully appeal to stereotypes; she didn't appear emotional enough when giving evidence, along with the fact that she had a degree, a good job and a car meant that she was unlikely to have been raped.