March 21, 2010
Published: 3 Jul 09 14:34 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/20448/20090703/
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Testimony from the victim of an alleged rape is not sufficient to secure a conviction without additional supporting evidence, Sweden’s highest court ruled on Friday.
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In the end she was telling a lie and was only charged with mischief. She made up the story because he snubbed her sexual advances to him in the office.
Any woman who has sex with a man could claim "rape" if she wanted if it was not necessary to prove it.
As horrible a crime rape is, we live in societies where you are innocent until proven guilty. That's the way it has to be.
Not sure how this has just come to pass now.
Does this mean that there are people already behind bars here, purely on the strength of one persons word against another, without any coroberating evidence?
*corroborating*
Bye, pub time.
agree with the point upthread that some (a small minority hopefully) people (of whatever gender) are not above making accusations purely out of spite and malice against innocents knowing that the consequences for the person on the receiving end are likely to be catastrophic (whether found guilty or innocent) ... whereas the consequences for the accuser are often trivial even in the event that he/she is proven to have 'fabricated the entire story' ...
don't get me wrong, rape is a very serious crime and scourge of society with devastating psychological impact on victims ...
but the scales of justice have to be carefully balanced ...
the problem with rape for investigating police is that it is often so difficult to get conclusive evidence that the crime has actually occurred ...
proving sexual intercourse with the accused is relatively straghtforward if the victim comes forward quickly enough ... but proving non-consent is much more complicated of course :-(
Even from humanistic point of view too, its necessary to safeguard the image or character of the innocent accused in such cases by increasing the level of information required to plead guilty. Why should a girl tarnish the image of a person like this ?
Where are you Mz....I hope you havn't "chocked",... sorry, choked on your pint....
Stating that women are unlikely to falsely accuse men of rape are not only rather misguided but also rather stupid. In my experience, women are just as likely to lie as men so why should their testomony be treated with greater authority.
The accused should be treated as innocent untill proven guilty and accusation is not the same thing as proof.
As for lie detectors, they dont work with any degree of accuracy so thats why they are not seen as reliable in most justice systems. Yet another stupid idea...
She has no right to tarnish the character of an innocent person