@BillRM,
Quote:Damn shame and in the end he is likely to just pay her off to go away setting up another example at how a woman can become wealthy.
A new American dream is being born in front of our eyes.
So, any woman who wants to get wealthy, should get herself dragged around a hotel suite, almost raped, and forced to have oral sex with a prominent rich stranger?
You see a frightening, degrading, physical and sexual assault--as well as the total invasion of your privacy and your life after you report the incident-- as a small price to pay for an economic windfall?
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If the reports are true one rape claimed allow her to enter the US and now another will more then likely turn her into a millionaire.
She was granted asylum to remain in the U.S.--people are not granted asylum simply because they have been raped.
So, what are you implying--no real harm has been done to this woman, if there is a big payoff at the end? What's a little rape, right? Money is more important than things like being violated, humiliated, demeaned, traumatized...Rapists have been good to this woman...She should really be grateful to them, shouldn't she?
You have no decency at all.
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Yes within hours they had arrested the man so they surely was able to do due diligence in that space of time.
You just can't wrap your small mind around the fact that this woman reported her assault
immediately, and her account was
so credible that the police moved to immediately arrest this man, and preserve whatever forensic evidence was still on his body, before he could leave the country, so that he would be answerable to her charges.
They had no reason to doubt her--she reported being physically and sexually assaulted by a stranger, and her account, and likely her physical appearance, and demeanor, and emotional state, was apparently consistent and highly credible to police from the Special Victims Unit, who are very experienced in dealing with sexual assault cases.
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But what the hell he is a man so he is guilty until proven innocent.
You have been looking for reasons to discredit this woman, but you ignore the fact that this man has a somewhat unsavory reputation when it comes to women, for his aggressive tactics, and at least one other woman, a French journalist, had publicly accused him of sexually assaulting her. You wonder why that journalist has been reluctant to lodge legal charges against him--look at what has already been happening to the woman in the current case--she's under police protection, she can't go back to her apartment, people are speculating about her past and her HIV status, and her ordeal has just begun--simply because she had the guts to report being assaulted.
He is a man who has been accused of serious, violent first degree felonies. He is legally considered innocent--until a jury decides otherwise. But he will be treated, by law enforcement, and corrections, and the courts, in the same way as every other person accused of such serious crimes.
Since he is possibly guilty, why don't you wonder why this man might have risked destroying his life and career over an unwanted, forced sexual contact with a stranger?
Maybe he thought he could sexually assault her and then hand her a few bucks to shut her up and then he'd be off on his way back to Paris and no one would be the wiser. Or maybe, when he suddenly saw her in his suite, he offered her money if she'd service him, and she turned to run out of the room, but he locked the door...and decided to just take what he wanted.
Because he has the legal presumption of innocence does not mean that he's not possibly guilty.
