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

Rape is a crime--a quite real crime, with real victims. It's important not to forget that.

In any case we will never know if he is an innocent man or a guilty one given the time since he was supposed to had acted.

Bully for you.

I'm less interested in what your personal opinions are than I am in what actually goes on in our courtrooms regarding crimes of sexual assault.

I'm more interested in how laws define the crime of rape than I am in your personal definitions.

I'm more interested in empowering victims to report sexual assaults, and having them taken seriously, than listening, yet again, to your hot air pontificating about how "anti-male" all the sexual assault laws are.

I'm more interested in disseminating factual information, and promoting education, than listening to your various nebulous whines about feminists, the government, etc.

I'm more interested in seeing fewer people raped.

Ex-BBC presenter Stuart Hall has admitted indecently assaulting a girl under 16 but denies 20 further charges.

Mr Hall, 84, is to go on trial accused of 15 rapes and five indecent assault offences against two young girls, allegedly between 1976 and 1981 in Greater Manchester and Cheshire.

The charge he admits was put to him ahead of the trial at Preston Crown Court.

The court heard the attack happened between January 1978 and January 1979.

Mr Hall, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, is charged with seven counts of rape against one alleged victim between 1976 and 1978, in Manchester.

Five of the rapes are said to have taken place when she was aged under 16.

He is also accused of two counts of indecent assault against the woman in the same period.

In addition, he is charged with eight counts of rape and three of indecent assault against a second alleged victim between 1976 and 1981, at various locations in Greater Manchester and Cheshire.

One of those alleged rapes is said to have taken place when the complainant was aged under 13.

At a trial last year, Stuart Hall was jailed for 15 months - later extended to 30 months by the Court of Appeal - for sexually abusing young girls aged between nine and 17.

All of your " the state got another rapist!" bullets dont get you there, as the state never tells us what happened. This should concern you.

In cases of sexual assault/rape, each charge is accompanied by a description of the defendant's behavior to justify that charge

At trial, witnesses and other evidence are presented to corroborate the charges.

All of this takes place in public courtrooms

Thursday, May 8, 2014
Nichols College student accused of rape in dorm room
By Brian Lee TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF

DUDLEY — An 18-year old Nichols College student is being summoned to court on allegations he raped a classmate Friday during a night of partying in a dormitory.

Joshua A. Goldman of 111 Country Club Place, Southbridge, is to be arraigned May 14 on two counts of rape and assault and battery.

Asked about Mr. Goldman's status at Nichols, a school spokesman said the law prohibited him from making any comment about any student at the school.

About 1:45 a.m. Sunday, a woman told police she had been sexually assaulted, the police report said.

The woman told police she and a group of friends were hanging out in her dorm room Thursday night. Mr. Goldman eventually joined the group, the report said.

The woman said she had consumed several alcoholic drinks and at one point joined Mr. Goldman outside to smoke marijuana, the police report said.

The two returned to the dorm room and continued to party until a resident assistant ordered everyone who was not a resident to leave the room, she told police.

The next thing the woman remembered, she told police, was waking up in Mr. Goldman's room. She said "she became aware" of Mr. Goldman's attempts to pull her shorts off, police said.

The woman said she tried to resist and pulled her shorts back up and repeatedly told him, "We can't." But he was able to make sexual contact with her, the report said.

The woman told police she "continued telling him no to the point where Mr. Goldman spit on her while attempting to try to have sex with her," the report said.

She said he collapsed on top of her before going into the bathroom, and she seized the opportunity to return to her room, the report said.

The woman said she went to the nurse in the morning, and she was directed to go to a local hospital, where an exam was conducted, and the evidence kit was provided to investigators.

She was also granted an emergency restraining order, police said.

On Monday, Officer Philip Megas and Nichols College Public Safety Director Jack Caulfield met with Mr. Goldman, who said he didn't remember being alone in his room with the woman, but noticed blood on his sheets Friday morning, the report said.

He told investigators he washed the sheets; he had the mattress cover in his vehicle, the report said. He voluntarily gave the mattress cover to police, who placed it in the evidence room, the report said.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20140508/NEWS/305089813/1116

Judge imposes new terms in teen rape case
May 8, 2014

DALLAS - A Dallas County judge on Thursday changed the terms of probation for a man found guilty of rape. It's a case that's generated national attention and brought a judge's words and rulings into the spotlight.

It took very little time for Judge Carter Thompson to impose what the district attorney and the victim's family wanted – strict probation requirements for 20-year-old Sir Young.

And, the judge warned him if he did anything at all to violate probation he would find out, "Your previous court gave you a second chance. Do not expect a third chance."

Judge Thomson imposed all the requirements of a sex offender on probation.

Young was 18 years old in 2011 when he raped a 14-year-old classmate at Booker T Washington High School for the Performing Arts.

He admitted as much in his trial before Judge Janine Howard, who originally sentenced him to 45 days in jail, 250 hours of community service at a rape crisis center and a loose probation.

Judge Howard commented that the victim was not really a victim.

Public outrage followed and the DA sought another judge to impose new conditions of probation.

"This is a victim and the fact that the judge went on the news and said the victim was the problem as opposed to the defendant who actually committed this crime is just another example of how our criminal justice system is failing us. And so this judge made a determination that he's gonna help us, the district attorney's office, fix our criminal justice system," said Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins.

Defense attorney Scottie Allen suggested the DA was "judge shopping" to get a favorable ruling.

"Not only disappointed, this is unprecedented to have a trial judge circumvent and make conclusions from another trial judge's decisions and judgments without having had the benefit of listening to those witnesses and reviewing that evidence," Allen said.

Young will still have to serve 45 days in jail and will undergo a sex offender evaluation to determine what other counseling he may need.

He will not be allowed to have contact with the victim or be around children or any place where children might be. He must also submit to polygraphs and reasonable unannounced searches, pay for a DNA sample to be taken and register as a sex offender.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/25465264/judge-imposes-new-terms-in-teen-rape-case#ixzz319Z2Nqfc

Mother plans complaint against judge in teen daughter's rape case
By Jennifer Emily
May 8, 2014

The mother of a teenage rape victim told The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday that she will file a judicial complaint against the judge who gave her daughter’s attacker probation and then publicly bashed the girl.

The woman, who is not being named to protect her daughter’s identity, said the judge overstepped her authority when she told The News in an interview last week that the girl “wasn’t the victim she claimed to be.” The mother said the judge needed training and to officially be told that what she said was wrong.

She said she will soon file the complaint against state District Judge Jeanine Howard with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which investigates allegations of wrongdoing against judges. In a case that has drawn national media scrutiny, Howard has come under continued criticism after she gave 20-year-old Sir Young — who admitted raping the girl — five years’ deferred probation and stripped away the most common restrictions for sex offenders.

“I don’t want to file a complaint that just sits in her file,” the mother said Wednesday. “I want them to say something to her"...

Legal ethics expert James Alfini, former dean and current adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law in Houston, said Howard’s remarks should trigger an investigation by the commission.

“The judge’s comments about the victim’s sexual history were inappropriate and uncaring,” Alfini said. “If she wanted to explain her ruling in the case, she could have done so without subjecting the victim to greater anguish, as well as public scorn and ridicule. Simply saying that the defendant was ‘not your typical sex offender’ should have been enough.”

Alfini said the commission may also investigate whether Howard’s remarks about the girl’s sexual history — whether true or untrue — were “nonpublic information acquired in a judicial capacity.” The state judicial code of conduct forbids judges from releasing such information, which could include medical information.

Howard, a Democrat, will be unopposed in November when she seeks a third term.

Although District Attorney Craig Watkins, who is also a Democrat, has said he is “outraged” by the judge’s comments, his spokeswoman said the DA’s office will not be filing a complaint against Howard.

“We feel the victim’s family can file a judicial complaint if they want,” said the spokeswoman, Debbie Denmon. “We don’t want to put the victim through anything else.”

The head of the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center, Bobbie Villareal, a former Dallas County prosecutor, offered Wednesday to help the mother file the complaint and write a letter supporting the commission taking action.

“We’re definitely supporting her and will help her,” said Villareal.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20140507-mother-plans-complaint-against-dallas-rape-case-judge.ece

They do not need to worry about my opinions but I do not think such behaviors is going to go over well with most of the UK population.