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Message: [QUOTE="Porthoz, post: 3000341, member: 2221"] Mate, you don't have to apologise. Everyone's opinion is coloured by their life experiences, as we've recently seen in the Controversial thread. I know someone who almost certainly committed a brutal murder against a close relative. Police are convinced of it too, and the circumstantial evidence is strong. Unfortunately, there isn't enough tangible evidence to convict him, even after an inquest, so he has walked free for over 20 years. I mostly agree with your point here. Assuming her side is the truth, she's in a lose/lose position, where after being raped, she will possibly be torn apart in court and as B4L mentioned, see her character assassinated on top of everything. Hopefully there will be some reparation in long jail terms for her assaulters, but the mental scars will never go away. However, her right to be believed, ends when it infringes on the right to freedom from someone she accuses of a very serious crime. People lie for all kinds of reasons, they just do, and it would be a slippery slope where not justice, but the best liars would be rewarded. The FBI puts the amount of [B]proven[/B] false accusations of rape at 8% 20 years ago, well before the [HASHTAG]#metoo[/HASHTAG] movement. This is not taking into account cases which were not prosecuted for lack of evidence! The main reason for the accusations? "Emotional gain" of experimenting young women who feel regret and shame, especially when multiple partners were involved, and use those accusations as a mechanism to both feel better about themselves and avoid judgement of others. Only recently, 2 men accused of gang raping a woman, were released and their sentence vacated in New York, because despite the lack of conclusive evidence, they believed her. [B]26 years later[/B], DNA evidence and the woman's own admission that she lied, finally brought justice to them. I realise that my stance will result in criminals going free, but I can live with that if it means no innocents are punished, even if the ratio was 1000 to 1. [/QUOTE]

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