The "morning-after rape": A taint on the legal system
Last week Gary Taylor was probably thanking his lucky stars that he was sleazy enough to video tape a one night stand he had with a woman.
The video footage he took was the only thing that kept him out of jail after a woman played the old ‘he raped me!’ card the morning after.
The woman, who can’t be identified for legal reasons, told jurors that Mr Taylor forced her to perform a sex act on him and then raped her in her living room.
But during cross-examination she was shown footage Mr Taylor had taken on his mobile phone during the encounter on September 26, 2008.
Mr Taylor’s barrister Karen Holt said the footage showed the woman ‘actively’ performing a sex act on him.
Judge Christopher Moss QC closed the public gallery before a graphic clip filmed by the woman was shown to the jury.
The jury saw the footage and Taylor was subsequently cleared of four counts of rape.
It shouldn’t have come to this but it has. Any woman can cry rape and drag a male’s reputation through mud and even if she’s proved to be a lying crackwhore (Taylor arrived at her apartment with some cocaine and a bottle of wine), her identity is still protected whilst the guy’s credibility, even if found completely innocent is forever tarnished.
Just how freaking stupid do you have to be to videotape yourself actively giving a man a blowjob and then cry rape? And how freaking stupid is the UK justice system for letting cases like this go to court?! AND WHAT’S WITH THE PROTECTING THE IDENTITY OF LIARS CRAP?!?
This “morning-after he rape!” rubbish isn’t just happening in the UK though, it’s been happening in Australia since 1986.
Anna Marshall writes;
Perth resident Kevin Ibbs was having consensual sex with Christine Watson on the night of 29 November 1986. Watson, a close friend of Ibbs’s wife, Katrina Carter, was living in the same house with Ibbs and Carter. The sex act was taking place with the full knowledge of Carter who was in the house at the time.
As Ibbs was nearing ejaculation, Watson suddenly withdrew her consent to sex (so she later claimed) and tried to push Ibbs away. He continued for a short time. Too late, he was trapped. He was charged with sexual assault and found guilty under the new law. The judge found that Ibbs had continued sexual intercourse for about thirty seconds without consent (for which he was later dubbed the 30-second rapist). The judge sentenced him to four years imprisonment. [Details of the case]
Some years later Watson admitted to police that the whole incident was a set-up orchestrated by Carter to have Ibbs charged with sexual assault to get him out of the house they were sharing.
Christine Elizabeth Watson a.k.a. Christine Elizabeth Wardle and Katrina Ann Carter were subsequently convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. They served seven months in jail.
As you can see the “morning-after rape” phenomena has been going on for over a quarter of a century and still runs rampant today. How has this gone unaddressed?
The Taylor case clearly highlights the woeful inadequacy of the current legal process in identifying false rape claims against legitimate ones. With the stakes so high for the accused in a rape case perhaps the solution is raising the stakes for the accuser if they are found to be lying.
Currently as far as I know there is no punishment for screaming rape and then being found to have been lying.
Thankfully i’m not the only one raising this question, the author of End of Men has strong opinion on the issue;
No evidence needed to get the man arrested. The lying words of a deceitful female still results in her being protected as a victim by the state, while the innocent man has his name tarnished with a rape allegation (treated as guilty). If that footage wasn’t taken, he would have been serving a long time in prison for something THAT NEVER HAPPENED. And the female would have not cared one jot.
And it’s not just males who are sick of it either. In an aptly titled editorial, “Face it, girls – a drunken romp isn’t rape”,
Stories such as this have been driving me absolutely mad for years. For a start, they undermine genuine rape cases, which are still woefully underreported to the police and of which only a tiny minority come to trial. How a woman who wakes up next to some bloke she was too drunk to remember having sex with is able, in the cold light of day, to compare herself to the victim of a genuine sexual assault is beyond me. It’s repellent – the most grotesque embracing of faux-victimhood.
One would think the most vocal critics of the current situation would be solely males rallying together, when it fact it really should be the legitimate victims of rape whatever their gender.
Yes as much as I want to roll my eyes at male rape like the rest of you I have to admit it happens.
These false morning-after rape allegations do nothing but destroy innocent people’s reputations and tarnish the validity of genuine rape claims.
As false claims increase, oh and they have what with a whole new generation of ‘power to the womyn’ and all that, it is not unreasonable to see a decline in genuine cases not being reported for fear of the possibility of being proven a liar in court.
The end result is the laws we have in place to bring rapists to justice actually start to work against genuine victims. But don’t blame the accused for this sorry mess; blame the selfish vindictive individuals who are unable to take personal responsibility for their actions.
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