So he allegedly does these things months apart and she continues going back to his house...?
And after she was "raped" she definitely didn't think to go to a clinic to get checked out and gather evidence against him.
No evidence, not guilty, case closed.
Sound logic here, how are you not a prosecutor? In fact, you seem to be such an expert on psychology as well, you might as well be, like, The King of Prosecutors. Any sexual assault case must go before you first to determine, just based on what the media reports on the case, if the woman is lying or not. Congratulations!
Sadly this is how it goes, as many of the accused accept plea deals since you can literally be declared guilty without any material evidence, which is mind-boggling.
Brian Banks was a student at Long Beach Polytechnic High School when a fellow student accused him of rape. He accepted a plea deal to avoid a lengthy sentence and ended up serving almost the entire sentence. The accuser was later recorded admitting that the sexual contact was consensual and that she made up the allegation so her mother wouldn't find out she was sexually active. Gibson's family had received a $1.5 million settlement from the school following Banks' guilty plea for failing to keep Wanetta safe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wrongful_convictions_in_the_United_States
So, a few things b/c you seem to be interested in having a real discussion (to your credit):
- I can’t speak to Europe, but in the US, until the past year or two it was so common to hear people say things like “don’t dress for the part if you don’t want it” or things like that about rape victims that trying to discredit victims by saying they “dressed provocatively” (along with claiming victims shouldn’t have drank so much if they didn’t want to have sex and using the “a little nutty and a whole lotta slutty” line) essentially became cliches. I mean, you had Donald Trump literally bragging about committing sexual assault on tape and half the country dismissed it as “locker room talk.” There is a culture of victim-blaming toward adult victims of sex crimes in the US. And don’t even get me started on how horribly male victims of sexual violence are treated...
- The FBI has found that only 5-6% of these allegations per-year are false. Yes, it happens, but it is extremely rare and often the people who are lying get caught.
- Speaking from the experience of a close friend, I get why people are reluctant to go to the police. Many officers do a great job, but others are incredibly cruel and seem to have a “it’s the victim’s fault until proven otherwise” attitude, especially if the victim was drinking the night s/he was attacked. Plus, it’s an enormous amount of pain and trauma to process, it’s not like you just wake up the next day and everything is back to normal.
