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

DNA technology finally vindicates rape victim 20 years later
GMT 29 Feb 2012

A rape victim who was spat at, beaten up and bullied over supposedly false allegations has finally seen her attacker face justice 20 years on thanks to advances in DNA technology.

The girl, who was just 13 at the time of the attack, was subjected to a hate campaign while vile Harry Davey enjoyed his freedom.

Publican Davey, 65, had twice denied raping the girl at his farm in 1992 and, even in April last year when he was re-arrested, he refuted the findings that identified him as the perpetrator.

He was finally brought to justice after West Yorkshire Police conducted a cold case review and was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison on Monday.

Tests had proved inconclusive at the time and Davey was released without charge but after going through the most traumatic experience of her life, the young girl was then spat at in the street and physically attacked after word had got round about the assault.

Leeds Crown Court heard the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had gone to Davey's land in Bradford, West Yorks., to help a family friend feed pigs and was allowed to ride horses there, as were other girls.

Sophie Drake, prosecuting, said the victim was taken into the defendant's house thinking his wife was at home. They were in the living room when he grabbed her and committed the crime.

Miss Drake said: "She bumped into a friend afterwards and told her what had happened. Despite being sworn to secrecy her friend told her mother."

Word got back to the victim's mum and Davey was arrested and interviewed, denying all of the charges. Forensic testing proved inconclusive and he was released without charge.

A victim impact statement read to the court detailed the horrors that the young girl was subjected to including being slapped by the defendant's then wife and being attacked by other girls who also used Davey's horses. She was also bullied at school and had to leave home while her own mother did not believe her.

Police re-opened the cold case last year and, using advances in forensics, Davey, of Bradford, was arrested again. He denied any sexual contact but finally admitted the crime at his hearing on Monday.

Mitigating, Richard Gioserano said Davey had pleaded guilty and spared his victim the trauma of having to come to court.

Sentencing Davey, Recorder Bernard Gateshill said: "Your young victim spent 20 years thinking that you had got away with raping her.

"You have clearly ruined her life. To this day she is mentally scarred by the experience that you inflicted upon her.

"The reality is you have escaped justice for 20 years and your victim has had to wait 20 years for an acknowledgement that you wronged her."

Davey will be on licence when he is released and was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.

After the case, Det Insp Howard Atkin, of West Yorkshire Police's Major Investigation Review Team, said: "Harry Davey is a dangerous individual who in 1992 took advantage of a position of trust to subject his 13-year-old victim to a serious sexual assault.

"Until now he probably thought he had evaded punishment for these crimes. This was wrong.

"Determined and tireless work by detectives in partnership with the Forensic Science Service has meant that he has finally been brought to justice.

"The destructive impact of his offending upon the victim simply cannot be imagined, and she has had to live with this for a very long time.

"I would like to pay tribute to the victim and her family in this case who have shown great courage and resolve and have supported the prosecution throughout. Justice, release and closure have finally been delivered to them.

"This conviction shows once again that there is no hiding place for criminals. Our message is clear - there is no time limit on justice."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9112400/DNA-technology-finally-vindicates-rape-victim-20-years-later.html

“Code of silence” in rape case in Pitt Meadows is shameful
Globe and Mail
Feb. 26, 2012

Where are the young people with moral courage in Pitt Meadows, B.C.?

It is a disturbing spectacle when a teenage victim of a gang rape feels impelled to step forward at a news conference, with her father, to plead for someone to tell the truth about what happened to her. The RCMP say that up to 12 people witnessed the attacks at a rave on Sept. 10, 2010, on a rural property east of Vancouver, but that a “code of silence” protects the attackers. Is the victim the only young person with courage in Pitt Meadows?

The young are not excused from the obligation to report crime and stand up for law, and against brutality. They have a duty to protect their world, present and future, much the same way as adults do. The police don’t act in a vacuum. They can’t be everywhere. Law isn’t some nebulous thing maintained in books or courtrooms. Where ordinary people turn a blind eye to violence, out of physical fear or worry about being ostracized, or simply because they are misguided, they clear the way for criminals and thugs to rule. At the extreme, that passivity and non-involvement lead to fascism. Democracy cannot function when people don’t stand up for law.

RCMP investigating officers have said publicly that they have seen cellphone photos taken of the attacks (some of the images were posted, with horrifying cruelty, online) and that there is no doubt the gang rape took place. Yet, 18 months later, the only sexual charge filed in the case was stayed last week because of a lack of evidence. The girl’s family says she was bullied when she returned to school, and had to leave the school.

Her father said, “At some point in your life, you will have to explain, perhaps to your own kids, to do what’s right in life. And it’s never too late to do that.” What sort of world do the young people of Pitt Meadows expect to live in, raise their own children in? A world in which some may hurt others with impunity? And how do these young people propose to control the inevitable violence, to make sure it doesn’t touch them or their children?

A world in which the young lack courage is not a promising one.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/code-of-silence-in-rape-case-in-pitt-meadows-is-shameful/article2349440/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Opinions&utm_content=2349440

Another likely case of a woman/girl falsely crying rape it would seems to explain to her family the video of her having group sex!!!!!!!!!

Anyone who thinks that young teenage women freely and knowingly consent to "group sex" with strangers, in public places, with a crowd watching, photographing and videotaping the event, has obviously been watching too much porn

No, neither of those cases took place in a public totally open area, with a crowd of strangers/witnesses standing around

If you think that normal unimpaired high school girls are taking part in fully consensual group sex

That rave party situation was a gang rape, but, you, of course, are better informed than the RCMP who actually viewed the images of the event and said there is no question it was a gang rape

LONGVIEW, Wash. – A woman who said she lied as an 11-year-old when she said her father raped her won't be prosecuted for her testimony, which sent him to prison for more than nine years


Prosecutor Sue Baur said charging Cassandra Ann Kennedy of Longview might discourage others who might have lied in similar situations from coming forward to tell the truth. She noted, however, that it was simply a case of a person withdrawing their story - not an indictment of the system.

"Unfortunately, a man spent 10 years in prison before that happened," the prosecutor said.

Now 23, Kennedy said guilt prompted her to tell police that she lied in 2001 when she lived in Kalama, The Daily News reported Sunday ( http://is.gd/3F53OU).

"I did a horrible thing," Kennedy told detectives in January, according to a police report. "It's not OK."

Her father, Thomas Edward Kennedy, denied the rape allegation but was sentenced in 2002 to more than 15 years in prison. Now 43, he was released last week and all charges against him were dismissed. Reached Friday by the newspaper, he declined to comment, saying he's simply trying to get on with his life.

In recent months, Cassandra Kennedy has been staying at Mountain Ministries, a Christian addiction treatment center. Gary Miller, the organization's director, said she was in Mexico doing missionary work and couldn't be reached.

She told detectives this year that she wanted to talk about her father's conviction, according to investigative reports.

Kennedy told police her father never touched her. For nearly a decade, she said, he had been sitting in prison based on her lies.

"I just want him to be out and freed," Kennedy said in her interview with detectives. Then, she said, "I will be free on the inside."

Kennedy said she got the idea of setting up her father from a friend whose stepfather was sent to prison for a child sex crime.

"I thought that is what I would do to make my dad go away," she told police.

Thomas Kennedy and his wife divorced around 1991, and their daughters, Cassandra and her older sister, began spending one weekend a month with their father, according to court documents. The girls slept on foam mattresses in the living room of Kennedy's home.

"I wanted him to love me, and I didn't think he did at that time," she told the detectives.

Kennedy said she made up the rape story largely because her father disappointed her. "I took my own vengeance," she told police

The jury convicted Thomas Kennedy of three counts of first-degree rape of a child and the conviction had been upheld on appeal.

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2012/04/02/2054406/rape-lie-recanted-kalama-man-freed.html#storylink=cpy

The word of one female can now put a man in prison, and the word of one female can get a man out......this I am sure gives FIREFLY orgasims.