hey_monkey
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I'm not terribly familiar with the French legal system but surely there's some other step here, right? Goddamn.
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Girl, 11, consented to sex with man, 28, French prosecutors declare
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There's unfortunately way worse stuff happening than this. We had an article couple of months back about girls this age being married off to their rapists in rare cases in the US. With the consent of their parents. In some countries, that isn't such a rare occurance.
The guy is still going to go to jail. Perhaps not as long as he deserves. But hopefully, this prompts France to update their consent laws.
Yes, the girl's lawyer is going to ask the "ministère public" (public prosecutor) to requalify the facts before the trial happens
Morrigan Stark
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Wait.... prosecutors declared this??
Fucking what
Fucking what
It's not just about the piece of shit that did this. They are telling a little girl that she wasn't raped because she didn't fight back hard enough.
Yoshimitsu126
Member
And we dont even know their names as they sleep soundly tonight with who knows what.
There is no such thing as children "consenting to sex". They're kids.
The law is there to protect children. If it fails to do that, something is very wrong and so it should be rightfully condemned in the strongest of terms.
The fact that this is even viably possible is utterly absurd. Hopefully the country will update its statutory rape laws as soon as possible.
Jack Scofield
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You would think that common sense would prevail in this situation. I just can't imagine how a group of adults came to this decision.
Gentleman Jack
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Home of Roman Polanski, everyone.
They aren't named either. probably paedos themselves
OG Shaka Zulu
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Humans werent ready for civilization. Wtf is this decision? Paris should be on lockdown by protestors.
Frozenprince
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Well this ruined my afternoon.
France, get your shit together a pedophile shouldn't be given free reign that's beyond fucked.
France, get your shit together a pedophile shouldn't be given free reign that's beyond fucked.
Fulminator
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How can this even possibly be used as a defense when age of consent laws exist?
Like wtf?
Like wtf?
I have not read the article but at a quick glance there seem to be various charges at play 1)rape and 2) sexual assault due to age of consent. The elements of rape are not met due to lack of resisting. So they move on to the lesser charge which presumably is the equivalent of statutory rape in the US. Again I could be completely off base but that is my quick read on this.
Either way the law should be changed.
Mohonky
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Do people even bother to read the article?
That's exactly what he is being charged with, sex with someone who is unable to consent, ie. under the age of 15. It's the definition of statutory rape, they just don't call it statutory rape.
The problem is that the girl says she was raped, but the prosecution isn't chasing additional rape charges against the offender because 'she didn't struggle enough' seems to be some sort of unusual reason. That's the problem.
The guy isn't walking free, unlike another case that just passed through India where a Bollywood director who was initially charged with the rape of a US post grad student but won on appeal because the judge deemed her merely saying 'no' and not forcibly struggling enough suggested consent.
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world...nviction/ar-AAsvKIz?li=AA5249&ocid=spartanntp
That's exactly what he is being charged with, sex with someone who is unable to consent, ie. under the age of 15. It's the definition of statutory rape, they just don't call it statutory rape.
The problem is that the girl says she was raped, but the prosecution isn't chasing additional rape charges against the offender because 'she didn't struggle enough' seems to be some sort of unusual reason. That's the problem.
The guy isn't walking free, unlike another case that just passed through India where a Bollywood director who was initially charged with the rape of a US post grad student but won on appeal because the judge deemed her merely saying 'no' and not forcibly struggling enough suggested consent.
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world...nviction/ar-AAsvKIz?li=AA5249&ocid=spartanntp
WordsintheWater
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How can an 11 year old give consent you fucks? Disgusting
This. This is just more of the same, unfortunately. Even if you're only eleven, if you're a girl, it's your responsibility to protect yourself, somehow.
HazySaiyan
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WTF France? You need to sort this shit out and fast, this is disgusting
Is this another case where no one ever bothered to look at the law to fix it for situations like this?
The worst part is if the law the prosecutors and judges are following is really set the way they claim it is, they cannot risk convict for rape charges or the culprit will have ground for mistrial or something!
That shit should have been fixed since before the 80's!
Before 2013, women were not allowed to wear pants in public.
Old law that was in the book that no one ever bothered to remove.
Old law that was in the book that no one ever bothered to remove.
The worst part is if the law the prosecutors and judges are following is really set the way they claim it is, they cannot risk convict for rape charges or the culprit will have ground for mistrial or something!
That shit should have been fixed since before the 80's!
For the tenth time, title is misleading, justice didn't consider she gave consent, the guy is indicted for having sex with the girl.
You expect GAF to read about the case after the headline before discussing it?
There's a problem with wording but he won't avoid the legal hammer.
Indeed... They're playing it safe so he can't avoid responsibility. I wonder if there will be really a difference in jail time at the end.
About dumb laws, France don't have that many compared to other countries, and honestly, laws like the one above takes time to remove, and no-one will ever uphold them, so I'm not sure it's that bad if we just ignore them...
Edit: and about the noise it makes... I discovered it here, nothing on radio or TV news about this...
Morrigan Stark
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So he's charged with statutory rape but not "rape rape", and the reason was, they claim the girl consented because she didn't fight hard enough.
Misleading or not, this is still supremely fucked up. Rape culture y'all
The Code Civil also specifies the standard sentence to apply so they can't be funny with what the rapist will get.
It needs to change like 3 decades ago.
We have dumb laws, lots of them but they're usually not upheld unless in rare cases like that.
e:Apparently the last time we codified the law for rape was in 1992 when Pierre Beregovoy was Prime Minister and Pierre Vauzelle was Garde des Sceaux (Justice minister).
How is the title misleading? It says that the prosecutors argued that she didn't fight or there was no violence thereby it was consensual, which is how their law is worded. They also used a loophole in the law because it doesn't take into consideration anyone under the age of consent with is 15.
Sure, he's being indicted for having sex with the girl but it's how they managed to use the law as it is written to throw out the rape charge.
The law needs to change and be updated.
Principate
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How has this never come up before now? Vile absolutely digusting.
Why?
Sex with sub-15 is illegal, easy to prove. Rape in legal terms can lay to discussions.
Noone said if was a lesser crime than a rape, and everyone will consider it that way. It just legal wording...
Beer Monkey
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Anthony Weiner moving to France after his prison and probation.
This is so fucked up.
This is so fucked up.
Golden_Pigeon
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In before Milo fanboys explain us that there is no rape culture in the West
IdreamofHIME
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I remember when a UK teacher ran off to France with his 15 student lover and the French police wouldn't do shit. They couldn't see where the problem was.
They are literally saying it's a lesser crime than rape. That's what the "legal wording," in this case means. You really can't say "everyone will consider it that way," when the law is specifically saying it's not rape, because the eleven year old didn't fight back against the 28 year old man.
It's almost certainly a lesser crime than if they were able to prove one of the required elements under the law for rape. I'd be stunned if it wasn't and would wonder why the law even makes the distinction it does if so.
Mohonky
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The title is factually correct, its just many posters take to topics with a sledge hammer, no one ever actually looks at the nuances they take what they want from the title or topic and run with it.
Most of the posters in this thread read '28yr old man has sex with 11yr old, prosecutors totally ok with it' instead of what is actually happening and where the problem is.
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