In Britain, Rape Cases Seldom Result in a Conviction

[MountainLaurel]

After Linda Davies reported to police that her 15-year-old daughter had been raped, it took three months -- plus two dozen phone calls and a threat of legal action -- before police questioned the suspect, a 28-year-old neighbor.

"I gave police his name, address, mobile phone number, car registration -- everything but his passport," said Davies, 44, a strong-minded mother of two daughters. "I was basically begging them. He lived five minutes away from us."

The suspect was finally arrested but acquitted at a trial in which the judge told the jury that he was "in a way a man of good character" because his previous criminal convictions, for possession of stolen goods and marijuana, did not involve violence.

Davies was furious at the judge, who also instructed the jurors to ignore the victim's young age, and at police, who lost cellphone records that contradicted the defendant's account.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052803583.html?hpid=topnews

[ismnotwasm]

1. That is one of the more disturbing statistics I've read in a while

This short paragraph seems to sum it up;
"But, she said, "women are allowed that bit more freedom as long as men behave. When men choose not to, it comes right back at women: 'What did you do to stop him? What was it about you that he chose you to rape?'"


Then there's this;

"As many as one in two young men believe there are some circumstances when it's okay to force a woman to have sex," said Conservative Party leader David Cameron, citing studies.

Now while this "Conservative leader" blames "Moral Collapse"---I'm assuming here he doesn't understand that the sexual component of rape is just a means to an end for a violent crime--The greater picture is violence against women continues to be an epidemic. Rape as a war crime. Intimate partner violence. In the women's rights group, there is a post regarding so called "honor killings"-- A gross misnomer--there is no honor in this; There is no cultural justification, it's a perversion of religious and cultural beliefs.

Start a rape thread here in DU, or anywhere, and watch the rape apologists and the misogynists all come out to play

I still like this website, as well as this concept;
http://www.mencanstoprape.org/