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frozenshock
10/16/17 10:14:03 AM
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Like, say, 4 or 5 girls working in the same office hate some coworker for some reason, or they're just mean and want to ruin some guy's life.

So they conspire to come out one after the other to accuse the same guy of raping them, and they fake the tears and all that.

What can the guy do to defend himself?

Assuming the girls conspired in secret and they didn't tell anyone other than each other of their plan to ruin the guy's life.
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E32005
10/16/17 10:15:25 AM
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Villain
10/16/17 10:16:07 AM
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Its happened


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wackyteen
10/16/17 10:16:12 AM
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frozenshock posted...

What can the guy do to defend himself?

Nothing.
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wackyteen
10/16/17 10:17:46 AM
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Other than the obvious have records of where he was and what he was doing at the accused times.
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s0nicfan
10/16/17 10:19:52 AM
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wackyteen posted...
frozenshock posted...

What can the guy do to defend himself?

Nothing.


If he lawyers up then MAYBE he could prevent a jail sentence using their lack of evidence, or if he gets lucky they could subpoena their cell phone records to show evidence of collusion. In the time that will take, though, he'll be expelled if he's in school, smeared across national news, and effectively ruined for the rest of his life even if he avoids a sentence.
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Flasbangs
10/16/17 10:20:13 AM
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frozenshock posted...

What can the guy do to defend himself?
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Well, if he gets convicted with no evidence, he can always get the satisfaction of murdering the skanks in front of their families once he gets out.
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pinky0926
10/16/17 10:21:38 AM
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What if a serial killer won the lottery and bought an apache helicopter on the black market and went on a killing rampage through new york?

I feel like hypotheticals like this lack a point.
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s0nicfan
10/16/17 10:23:03 AM
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pinky0926 posted...
What if a serial killer won the lottery and bought an apache helicopter on the black market and went on a killing rampage through new york?

I feel like hypotheticals like this lack a point.


I assume the point is that the TC wanted to emphasize that within our legal system/structure women have an inherent advantage and functionally have the power to ruin a man's life without much real effort and no repercussion.
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Were_Wyrm
10/16/17 10:24:21 AM
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frozenshock posted...
What can the guy do to defend himself?

Serve his entire sentence in solitary.
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wackyteen
10/16/17 10:24:42 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
wackyteen posted...
frozenshock posted...

What can the guy do to defend himself?

Nothing.


If he lawyers up then MAYBE he could prevent a jail sentence using their lack of evidence, or if he gets lucky they could subpoena their cell phone records to show evidence of collusion. In the time that will take, though, he'll be expelled if he's in school, smeared across national news, and effectively ruined for the rest of his life even if he avoids a sentence.

Honestly if there was evidence of collusion, they should be thrown in prison for 10+ years and each charged with felonies
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s0nicfan
10/16/17 10:26:02 AM
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wackyteen posted...
s0nicfan posted...
wackyteen posted...
frozenshock posted...

What can the guy do to defend himself?

Nothing.


If he lawyers up then MAYBE he could prevent a jail sentence using their lack of evidence, or if he gets lucky they could subpoena their cell phone records to show evidence of collusion. In the time that will take, though, he'll be expelled if he's in school, smeared across national news, and effectively ruined for the rest of his life even if he avoids a sentence.

Honestly if there was evidence of collusion, they should be thrown in prison for 10+ years and each charged with felonies


I'm a fan of people who suggest that if you can prove (high bar, here) that your accuser falsified rape claims to get revenge of some kind, that said accuser should be charged with the same crime and put on the sex offender list forever.
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frozenshock
10/16/17 10:28:08 AM
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Here's an interesting article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/06/no-matter-what-jackie-said-we-should-automatically-believe-rape-claims/

It feels to me that some people think that it's offensive to dare think that a girl might lie about being raped, so in the case of every crime it's innocent until proven guilty but in the case of rape it's the other way around

idk

I worked for a female lawyer a few years ago and I remember her talking nonchalantly about how she once threatened a client who didn't want to pay by saying she was going to accuse him of raping her
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Darkman124
10/16/17 10:28:59 AM
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the chances of a case without physical evidence going to trial are low. witness testimony is undervalued relative to physical evidence

as for the impact on personal life, yes it is extreme and no you can't do much about that. it is the social power women have, the risk being that if they're caught in the lie they'd face significant punishment themselves; much as men hold the power of physical violence over women and being caught poses the risk of significant punishment.

frozenshock posted...

I worked for a female lawyer a few years ago and I remember her talking nonchalantly about how she once threatened a client who didn't want to pay by saying she was going to accuse him of raping her


can you imagine if he'd been recording that conversation?

she'd be disbarred immediately.
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frozenshock
10/16/17 10:30:43 AM
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Darkman124 posted...
can you imagine if he'd been recording that conversation?

she'd be disbarred immediately.


The guy was a poor cab driver barely making ends meet. I don't think he could even afford a tape recorder
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Laserion
10/16/17 10:39:50 AM
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Somehow get to record them confessing it. He will have to weigh the charges for raping 5 girls vs the charges for wire-tapping.
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LordRazziel
10/16/17 10:44:14 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
pinky0926 posted...
What if a serial killer won the lottery and bought an apache helicopter on the black market and went on a killing rampage through new york?

I feel like hypotheticals like this lack a point.


I assume the point is that the TC wanted to emphasize that within our legal system/structure women have an inherent advantage and functionally have the power to ruin a man's life without much real effort and no repercussion.

Men could do the same thing.
The problem with a rape is there isn't much evidence, unless someone reports it right away.
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pinky0926
10/16/17 11:14:56 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
pinky0926 posted...
What if a serial killer won the lottery and bought an apache helicopter on the black market and went on a killing rampage through new york?

I feel like hypotheticals like this lack a point.


I assume the point is that the TC wanted to emphasize that within our legal system/structure women have an inherent advantage and functionally have the power to ruin a man's life without much real effort and no repercussion.


What about how rape is incredibly hard to get a conviction for and even if there is the inevitable result is the woman is made a social pariah for "ruining the guy's life", which is why most women don't come forward or see through an attempted conviction? Because that's the actual reality of this situation, not the "what if" unlikely hypothetical scenario.

You can make an argument that there's an inherent advantage for rapists in the current legal system, not that I have an answer for how to improve that. At least culturally we need to change.
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s0nicfan
10/16/17 11:18:07 AM
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pinky0926 posted...
s0nicfan posted...
pinky0926 posted...
What if a serial killer won the lottery and bought an apache helicopter on the black market and went on a killing rampage through new york?

I feel like hypotheticals like this lack a point.


I assume the point is that the TC wanted to emphasize that within our legal system/structure women have an inherent advantage and functionally have the power to ruin a man's life without much real effort and no repercussion.


What about how rape is incredibly hard to get a conviction for and even if there is the inevitable result is the woman is made a social pariah for "ruining the guy's life", which is why most women don't come forward or see through an attempted conviction? Because that's the actual reality of this situation, not the "what if" unlikely hypothetical scenario.

You can make an argument that there's an inherent advantage for rapists in the current legal system, not that I have an answer for how to improve that. At least culturally we need to change.


What country do you live in where a woman reporting having been raped makes her a social pariah? I live in a country where the "common consensus" is that one in four women will be raped in college. Clearly my country isn't one where the act of being raped and reporting it ruins your social standing.
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E32005
10/16/17 11:26:27 AM
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Villain posted...
E32005 posted...
Its happened


source?

Google
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pinky0926
10/16/17 11:29:04 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
What country do you live in where a woman reporting having been raped makes her a social pariah? I live in a country where the "common consensus" is that one in four women will be raped in college. Clearly my country isn't one where the act of being raped and reporting it ruins your social standing.


Dude, you should do some reading on this. Or speak to some female friends about this. That statistic isn't talking about successful convictions, it's talking about women who admit they have been sexually assaulted. And you'll find that an alarmingly high number of women you talk to have a sexual assault story, but almost none of them take it to court.

I mean even just last night I was talking to someone who got raped by a mutual friend at a house party while on drugs and she won't say anything about it because everyone really likes the guy and it would certainly mean she'd lose all those friends. She also almost certainly wouldn't get anywhere in court. That's the situation with rape. It's rarely a stranger down a back alley. It's almost always a friend or a friend of a friend.

And if you read that anecdote and thought "but she could have just made that up for sympathy" or something like that, you might appreciate why a woman might not even want to tell you about it.

Look at what happened with Bill Cosby and Weinstein. Only once a ridiculously high number of women came forward did people pose less "she could be a gold digger" theories. When Nelly was accussed the other week almost everyone on the internet assumed the alleged victim was a gold digging hoe.
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Patty_Fleur
10/16/17 11:29:23 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
pinky0926 posted...
s0nicfan posted...
pinky0926 posted...
What if a serial killer won the lottery and bought an apache helicopter on the black market and went on a killing rampage through new york?

I feel like hypotheticals like this lack a point.


I assume the point is that the TC wanted to emphasize that within our legal system/structure women have an inherent advantage and functionally have the power to ruin a man's life without much real effort and no repercussion.


What about how rape is incredibly hard to get a conviction for and even if there is the inevitable result is the woman is made a social pariah for "ruining the guy's life", which is why most women don't come forward or see through an attempted conviction? Because that's the actual reality of this situation, not the "what if" unlikely hypothetical scenario.

You can make an argument that there's an inherent advantage for rapists in the current legal system, not that I have an answer for how to improve that. At least culturally we need to change.


What country do you live in where a woman reporting having been raped makes her a social pariah? I live in a country where the "common consensus" is that one in four women will be raped in college. Clearly my country isn't one where the act of being raped and reporting it ruins your social standing.


There's no way 1 in 4 women are raped in college.
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Tadamoto24
10/16/17 11:30:22 AM
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Villain
10/16/17 12:09:54 PM
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Are you conveniently forgetting that he admitted to drugging women with the intent to have sex with them?
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Villain
10/16/17 12:13:25 PM
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E32005 posted...
Villain posted...
E32005 posted...
Its happened


source?

Google


The burden of proof is on you to provide since you made the claim.
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Blue_Inigo
10/16/17 12:14:18 PM
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@glitteringfairy
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E32005
10/16/17 12:16:23 PM
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Villain posted...
E32005 posted...
Villain posted...
E32005 posted...
Its happened


source?

Google


The burden of proof is on you to provide since you made the claim.

No. This isnt Ana argument its simple commentary to the topic.
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hockeybub89
10/16/17 12:18:01 PM
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Then he'll be falsely accused of rape.

I don't know why we're so worried about this on CE when rape is a severely underreported crime and less than 10% of the accusations we do hear are false.
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Villain
10/16/17 12:18:26 PM
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Well your commentary is wrong unless you can back it up.

I might as well just say the sky is brown.
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Trigg3rH4ppy
10/16/17 12:18:57 PM
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wackyteen posted...
s0nicfan posted...
wackyteen posted...
frozenshock posted...

What can the guy do to defend himself?

Nothing.


If he lawyers up then MAYBE he could prevent a jail sentence using their lack of evidence, or if he gets lucky they could subpoena their cell phone records to show evidence of collusion. In the time that will take, though, he'll be expelled if he's in school, smeared across national news, and effectively ruined for the rest of his life even if he avoids a sentence.

Honestly if there was evidence of collusion, they should be thrown in prison for 10+ years and each charged with felonies

Nah, death sentence for all of them if there's undeniable proof that they colluded to ruin this person's life with false rape allegations. After the first batch of whores are executed nobody would ever think about doing some stupid shit like this again.
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Trigg3rH4ppy
10/16/17 12:25:36 PM
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Patty_Fleur posted...
s0nicfan posted...
pinky0926 posted...
s0nicfan posted...
pinky0926 posted...
What if a serial killer won the lottery and bought an apache helicopter on the black market and went on a killing rampage through new york?

I feel like hypotheticals like this lack a point.


I assume the point is that the TC wanted to emphasize that within our legal system/structure women have an inherent advantage and functionally have the power to ruin a man's life without much real effort and no repercussion.


What about how rape is incredibly hard to get a conviction for and even if there is the inevitable result is the woman is made a social pariah for "ruining the guy's life", which is why most women don't come forward or see through an attempted conviction? Because that's the actual reality of this situation, not the "what if" unlikely hypothetical scenario.

You can make an argument that there's an inherent advantage for rapists in the current legal system, not that I have an answer for how to improve that. At least culturally we need to change.


What country do you live in where a woman reporting having been raped makes her a social pariah? I live in a country where the "common consensus" is that one in four women will be raped in college. Clearly my country isn't one where the act of being raped and reporting it ruins your social standing.


There's no way 1 in 4 women are raped in college.

If a man and a woman are both equally under the influence of alcohol and have consensual sex (I'm not talking pass out drunk either) the man raped that woman.
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glitteringfairy
10/16/17 12:26:07 PM
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Not a rapist bro. Just a deeder
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Cobra1010
10/16/17 12:26:50 PM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/woman-falsely-accused-15-men-rape-sexual-assault-jailed-ten/

Just 1 'girl' accused 15 men of rape.

One of them went to jail for 2 years and 9 months. While she was awarded 11,000.

Another victim was given a 7 year sentence.

One guy fled the country.

2 Guys arrested but werent charged

After she was found guilty of lying.

The victim that was sentenced for 7 years appealed against his conviction and but was quashed.
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Knowledge_King
10/18/17 11:46:17 AM
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pinky0926 posted...
I mean even just last night I was talking to someone who got raped by a mutual friend at a house party while on drugs and she won't say anything about it because everyone really likes the guy and it would certainly mean she'd lose all those friends. She also almost certainly wouldn't get anywhere in court. That's the situation with rape. It's rarely a stranger down a back alley. It's almost always a friend or a friend of a friend.


Honestly, that's dumb as hell. Most people would abandon the guy who raped the girl, not the girl who got raped. If she truly got raped (and not just like...we had sex while drunk/high), then coming forward would do nothing bad to her.
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That_Happened
10/18/17 11:52:27 AM
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Knowledge_King posted...
pinky0926 posted...
I mean even just last night I was talking to someone who got raped by a mutual friend at a house party while on drugs and she won't say anything about it because everyone really likes the guy and it would certainly mean she'd lose all those friends. She also almost certainly wouldn't get anywhere in court. That's the situation with rape. It's rarely a stranger down a back alley. It's almost always a friend or a friend of a friend.


Honestly, that's dumb as hell. Most people would abandon the guy who raped the girl, not the girl who got raped. If she truly got raped (and not just like...we had sex while drunk/high), then coming forward would do nothing bad to her.


This is what we call gaslighting. "What? She's crazy! Everyone would believe her and no one would defend the guy. Everyone would be on her side. Even though there are thousands of cases where this does not happen, I'm going to ignore all of them and call her dumb."
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Esrac
10/18/17 12:10:41 PM
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Unfortunately, the hard part about convicting for rape is the physical evidence for rape is often indistinguishable from the physical evidence of consensual sex.
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Knowledge_King
10/18/17 4:31:19 PM
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That_Happened posted...

This is what we call gaslighting. "What? She's crazy! Everyone would believe her and no one would defend the guy. Everyone would be on her side. Even though there are thousands of cases where this does not happen, I'm going to ignore all of them and call her dumb."


What thousands of cases?
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The Catgirl Fondler
10/20/17 4:47:33 AM
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Th3HonestTruth posted...
Cobra1010 posted...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/woman-falsely-accused-15-men-rape-sexual-assault-jailed-ten/

Just 1 'girl' accused 15 men of rape.

One of them went to jail for 2 years and 9 months. While she was awarded 11,000.

Another victim was given a 7 year sentence.

One guy fled the country.

2 Guys arrested but werent charged

After she was found guilty of lying.

The victim that was sentenced for 7 years appealed against his conviction and but was quashed.

Holy shit


The real scary part is, there's people out there (including on this board) who would adamantly defend what she did, and they just generally see nothing wrong with the concept of false accusations and/or refuse to believe that they even happen.

"Guilty until proven never."
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bknight
10/20/17 5:21:52 AM
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He apologizes and then announce to the world that he's going to rehab for sex addiction and then gets kicked off his company.
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MakoReizei
10/20/17 5:28:51 AM
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If a man is falsely accused of rape his life is pretty much over. Sad.
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unpleasant_milk
10/20/17 5:34:57 AM
#43:


s0nicfan posted...
pinky0926 posted...
What if a serial killer won the lottery and bought an apache helicopter on the black market and went on a killing rampage through new york?

I feel like hypotheticals like this lack a point.


I assume the point is that the TC wanted to emphasize that within our legal system/structure women have an inherent advantage and functionally have the power to ruin a man's life without much real effort and no repercussion.


And it is a point worth making tbh.
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awesome999
10/20/17 5:36:39 AM
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RIP everything the guy and his parents worked for
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Arcanine2009
10/22/17 6:22:52 AM
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They need actual evidence to win. I could see them tell slightly different stories and screw themselves over.

He could take them to court asap.
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TommyOh
10/22/17 6:33:58 AM
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It doesn't take 4 or 5 girls, it only takes 1.
And even if caught and proven to be lying, her punishment is nothing compared to what the guy would've faced had she been successful.
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Muflaggin
10/22/17 6:40:03 AM
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He's fucked.
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hakujo
10/22/17 6:40:39 AM
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Th3HonestTruth posted...
The Catgirl Fondler posted...
Th3HonestTruth posted...
Cobra1010 posted...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/woman-falsely-accused-15-men-rape-sexual-assault-jailed-ten/

Just 1 'girl' accused 15 men of rape.

One of them went to jail for 2 years and 9 months. While she was awarded 11,000.

Another victim was given a 7 year sentence.

One guy fled the country.

2 Guys arrested but werent charged

After she was found guilty of lying.

The victim that was sentenced for 7 years appealed against his conviction and but was quashed.

Holy shit


The real scary part is, there's people out there (including on this board) who would adamantly defend what she did, and they just generally see nothing wrong with the concept of false accusations and/or refuse to believe that they even happen.

"Guilty until proven never."

Quoted for truth

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