Hey, Can A Woman "Ask To Get Raped"?

Up to 31 women sue UK police force over rapist officer
From Wikinews,
Friday, November 26, 2010

Up to 31 women are suing Northumbria Police—which covers northeast England—over abuse they claim to have received from Police Constable Stephen Mitchell. Mitchell was this week convicted of two rapes, three indecent assaults, and six counts of misconduct in a public office against seven separate victims. They were among sixteen, all female, who testified at his five-week trial, which also saw acquittals over three rapes, three indecent assaults, and nine misconduct charges.

One woman, whose complaint against Mitchell triggered the three-year probe that convicted him, says she has decided to sue because he was cleared of raping her. She alleges rape, sexual assault, false imprisonment, and a breach of human rights, claiming the policeman raped her at Pigrim Street's police station in 2006, the culmination of four years using her as a sex slave. Now a mother-of-four and a PhD student, she "do[es] not accept the not guilty verdict. I want justice and I will prove his guilt." It is alleged he tracked her on the police database.

Mitchell claimed at trial the alleged victims were all liars, involved in a joint conspiracy to frame him and driven by a single woman. He described her motivation as "self-preservation" but refused to elaborate on this in open court.

It has since emerged that Mitchell was considered emotionless by other officers during the probe, earning the nickname 'PC Cucumber'. "We are making claims for damages for sexual assault, false imprisonment and breach of human rights," said Lindsey Houghton of lawyers Irwin Mitchell. "Mitchell was in a position of trust and authority. He abused that position, taking advantage of vulnerable young women in the most horrific way... we hope to be able to provide our clients with some comfort as they try to get their lives back." As well as the sixteen in court, fourteen more were willing to give evidence against him.

It does not get any worse than being a police officer with a rape conviction in prison, but he never flinched.

Inquiry leader Detective Chief Inspector Chris Sharman said he had "never seen anything like it in interviews. He showed no emotion whatsoever." Sharman was accused at trial by Mitchell's defence lawyer of offering the rapist a chance to resign in exchange for dropping the case, citing a secret recording between the two. The prosecution disputed this assessment of their conversation. An unnamed colleague who knew Mitchell said "It does not get any worse than being a police officer with a rape conviction in prison, but he never flinched."

Glasgow-born Mitchell's convictions cover 1999 through 2004. He previously served in the Army, as which time he appeared before court in Scotland over sex charges, but was cleared in 1997 before Edinburgh High Court; he lied about this on his police application.

The Mirror reports the total claimed to be in the region of millions of pounds.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Up_to_31_women_sue_UK_police_force_over_rapist_officer?dpl_id=223588

Men are not to be trusted and have the ability to rape. Women can be trusted and they have the ability to accuse men of rape.

women and men should be consider equals instead of the Firefly position that women are children that need and should be granted special protections and who freedoms of choices should be limits all in the name of protecting them

Substituting the state in place of men as the daddy figure is not an improvement.

Or for the state to placed a special duty on men to protect the women in their lives from their own actions and bad judgments.

Menston man,18, guilty of raping woman, 86, in Ilkley care home
Friday 26th November 2010
By Jenny Loweth

A teenage nursing home worker has been locked up for three years for raping an 86-year-old woman.

Kitchen assistant Maxwell Laycock, then 17, was delivering a Christmas Day cup of tea when he violated her, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Laycock, now 18, of Cleasby Road, Menston, pleaded guilty to a rape offence.

He also admitted sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl, who was working as a kitchen assistant at the nursing home in Ilkley.

The identities of both victims are protected by law.

Judge James Goss QC sentenced Laycock to three years’ detention in a young offender institution.

He branded the rape “vile and shameful,” saying of the elderly victim: “She should not have had to endure the humiliation of your behaviour towards the end of her life.”

Laycock must sign on the sex offenders’ register for an indefinite period.

The judge made a Sexual Offences Prevention Order banning him from paid or voluntary work that would bring him into unsupervised contact with children, elderly people or those with a mental or physical disability.

Prosecutor Richard Gioserano told Bradford Crown Court yesterday that Laycock grabbed and squeezed the girl’s breasts, laughed and walked off.

She could not recall exactly when this was because she did not report it until she found out what Laycock did to his 86-year-old victim.

Mr Gioserano said Laycock took the tea trolley round at 3.30pm on Christmas Day last year. Another staff member saw the trolley standing in a corridor and caught Laycock in the woman’s room.

The next day, the woman told the staff worker what had happened.

She also told her son, who reacted with shock and disbelief.

Laycock’s barrister, Richard Woolfall, said his client was genuinely remorseful.

“He is going to be battling this conviction for the rest of his life, and the stigma attached to it,” he said. Laycock had felt like killing himself afterwards and was ashamed and disgusted.

After the case, Amanda McInnes, of the Crown Prosecution Service West Yorkshire Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Unit said: “It is hard to imagine a greater breach of trust, and the case has understandably caused this lady’s family much anguish. “I hope that today’s sentence goes some way to helping the two victims to recover from their experiences and begin to rebuild their lives.”
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8690082.Man_18__guilty_of_raping_woman__86__in_care_home/

Why would any one think that women might need "special protections"? Perhaps because of cases like this one..All some rapists need is a vulnerable female, and opportunity, whether it's an extremely intoxicated college girl passed out on a bed in a frat house or an 86 year old woman in her bed in a nursing home...Rape laws, however, are not "special protections"--they are the necessary means to punish sexual predators.

The rapist in this case was not a stranger, and this was not a rape requiring extreme force or an extreme show of resistance. It's just the sort of rape that's covered by the rape laws that Hawkeye and BillRM want to do away with--

A tit squeeze should not be rape. what happened to the old woman we don't know so I am in no position to comment upon the appropriateness of the charge. I would not however make the assumption that the charge was justified, as with all claims of rape now that the term has been depowered by excessive expansion of its definition I would need to hear the particulars first, before thinking that I knew what happened

BTW- Bill and I are on record that sex with a passed out woman who has not preconsented to sex has not consented, and has been raped.

You thought it was a case of "consensual rough sex".

it turns out from pretrial discovery that the only place that took a blow was her head, which is consistent with a drunk hurting THEMSELVES, and she had a few tiny scratches on her back that barely drew any blood. Again, the information we have is not reliable, we should not pass judgment.

There really is no question this girl was gang raped, and rather brutally gang raped.

I was pointing out a study that says that 12 is when kids currently start to be sexually active.

They are not "sexual laws" they are sexual assault laws.

Right, I have only been discussing real rapes.

People are responsible for obeying the law--no matter what kind of law it is--and if they violate the law, they should expect to be punished for it.

you do nothing but deny that a rape has taken place, even when rapists, like the one in this case, confess.

She was drunk during the sex. The sex began after she collapsed from drinking.

That is not ALL kids. Experimenting at your own pace is totally different from being pushed into the deep end.

I have often wondered if 15 yr olds might not be better off learning about sex from adults

The identities of both victims are protected by law.