Husband accused of attacking wife: 'I am your husband. I can't rape you.'

[KamaAina]

http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/30421094/husband-accused-of-attacking-wife-i-am-your-husband-i-cant-rape-you

Police arrested a 27-year-old Memphis man after his wife said he attacked and raped her....

Memphis police said the man drove his wife to the back of a church parking lot. There, he accused her of cheating on him.

Officers said the man then held his wife down, choked, and raped her.

The woman said her husband told her, "I am your husband. I can't rape you. I can get it anytime I want."

[hobbit709]

1. He's about to get a surprise in court.

[smirkymonkey]

10. I certainly hope so.

What a sick individual.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. What century did he crawl out of? n/t

[geek tragedy]

5. 20th Century, in the United States anyways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape_(United_States_law)#History_to_1993

That's one generation ago.

And some people think feminism is outdated.

[jberryhill]

6. He's 27 years old

There is not a shred of "back in my day" that applies to this kid.

[geek tragedy]

7. It was legal to rape one's wife in Tennessee until 2005, when he was 17

http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2005/05/spousal-rape-bill-going-nowhere-still.html

In 2004, this wouldn't have been considered rape in Tennessee, since they weren't separated, didn't inflict broken bones or ruptured organs, and didn't involve a weapon.

So, yes, when this kid grew up, men were allowed, if not encouraged, to rape their wives by the state of Tennessee.

The cultural backwardness unpinning such a legal system won't go away so shortly.

Not that the rest of the US was much better--every state in the union allowed, if not encouraged, men to rape their wives until 1976, when Nebraska became the first state to make it illegal.

[jberryhill]

8. Ugh

[geek tragedy]

9. in South Carolina, what he did was probably legal

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/09/marital-rape-is-semi-legal-in-8-states.html

Many of the other states that differentiate between rape and marital rape do so through language similar to Ohio’s “force or threat of force” requirement but South Carolina state code goes so far as to require “the threat of use of a weapon” and/or “physical violence of a high and aggravated nature” in order to prosecute what it terms “spousal sexual battery.”

By comparison, South Carolina only requires “force or coercion,” “aggravated coercion,” and, at most, “aggravated force” to prosecute various degrees of “criminal sexual misconduct” when the victim is either not a spouse or a separated spouse—no mention of weapons and no requirement of elevated level of violence.

[meow2u3]

3. He's about to be in for a rude awakening

The woman said her husband told her, "I am your husband. I can't rape you. I can get it anytime I want."

Not for looooongg. Pretty soon, he'll be her ex-husband--and that's just for starters.

[geek tragedy]

4. Technically, he's incorrect. In terms of the way our legal system works, his claim

is correct a lot more than it's incorrect--marital rape is the single most unprosecuted crime in the country.