RE: Aziz Ansari Doesn't Pick Up On "Non-Verbal Cues" and Gets Treated Like A Rapist
January 17, 2018 at 8:49 am
(January 16, 2018 at 5:14 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(January 16, 2018 at 5:10 pm)Shell B Wrote: Yeah, duh.
Turns out, she actually is saying it was assault. I misspoke on that.
Ah, well...I don't think she's gonna be able to make that one stick. I don;t know if that amounts to much, I don't think that she could make it stick even if it were, meaningfully, a sexual assault.
Wouldn't matter anyway, whether or not it was assault. In these sorts of cases, usually the accusation is enough. Maybe not in the legal arena, but most definitely in the public one. Some years ago, a relative of mine was accused of sexual assault on minors. He denied it, the statements of the alleged victims were all over the place, forensic and other investigation came back negative, and one of the alleged victims even came out and gave details of why they were making the allegations (hint: compensation money). Yet my relative still served nine years after being coerced into pleading guilty by his own solicitor. His name is on the sex offenders register for the rest of his life.
But despite knowing all the context, there were people at the time - and still are - who said they don't care about all that and that he obviously must be guilty, because why else would the kids say such things? Why would the police have locked him up? Phrases like "no smoke without fire" were thrown about even by people who have known him for years.
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