Three stories about sexual assault, a heinous crime if there ever was one. It’s when a man male choses to debase himself, to throw off any pretense of civilized behavior and wallow in abject debauchery. Then offers lame excuses about being intoxicated, or it’s the culture, and everyone was doing it. In the Stanford case this was Brock Turner’s excuse. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/us/brock-turner-blamed-drinking-and-promiscuity-in-sexual-assault-at-stanford.html
In Nashville another case of student athletes behaving badly.
In both cases the evidence was overwhelming, witnesses and video. Of course one was white, the others black. The parameters of the cases being that separate states have different rules. One judge had leeway, on didn’t.
And an outrage I just heard today.https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-accused-groping-13-old-130006872.html
For some people it’s apparent that “NOTHING” is beneath them.
Of course there is one group that will always get a pass, especially in Europe. At the speed and the direction were going it won’t be long before it will be the same here.
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Closer to home two sex assault charges were dropped against Sen. Mcallister due to inconsistences in the accusers latest testimony and previous accounts. He still faces four more charges from accusations of another woman.
Since there seems to be no extra evidence (video or audio recordings, other witnesses) it boils down to a he said/she said situation. Some people seem to want to put the crime of sexual assault in a special category were the burden of proof is placed on the accused to prove his innocents from the presumption that he’s guilty. The majority of the state senate already believe he is.
Kris Lukens director of Voices Against Violence said “it is common for victims of trauma to confuse the details of what happened to them”. That may be so, but when we’re talking serious prison time, the defendant and his counsel have to do whatever they’re legally and ethically allowed to do to counter the accusations.
I don’t know if Sen. Mcallister is guilty or innocent. All I know that if I was accused of assault and the only evidence was someone’s word, and with the distinct possibility of a long prison term, and I was innocent, I would have to pull out all the stops to defend myself. I’m allergic to prison. But like Sen. Mcallister, where does one go to get their reputation back?