Cosby Sentence

[LadyForCamus]

Huggy, no one is saying that is wrong.  What Shell and I are trying to communicate to you through our personal experiences; what people have been trying and failing to get through to you throughout this thread without anyone having to talk personally about their own rapes; is that there are legitimate, justified, psychological reasons victims of sexual assault don’t report the crime to authorities.  The length of time that it takes for a victim to come forward is not related in any way to the likelihood of that person telling the truth about the assault.  Of course, to convict a man in a court of law there should be some corroborating evidence to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.  But, what we’re saying to you is, taking a long time to come forward is not evidence that contradicts an alleged assault.  “If she was really raped, she would have told someone”, is a non-sequitur.

I've never once questioned why it took the accusers so long to come forward,  it has no relevance to this case because statute of limitations is in effect. My issue is with the facts of the TRIAL which involved ONE woman and she went to the police within a year of the incident.

I don't believe anyone in this whole thread has stated  “If she was really raped, she would have told someone”.

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I believe we're in agreement for the most part, but I will address this.

That's a stretch. He was a goofy-ass motherfucker, if you ask me.

That's because you haven't seen a young Cosby, our introduction to Cosby was in the 80's - 90's which by that time he was in his 50's.

It’s the fact that you can sweepingly dismiss over fifty accusations as, “fake” that blows my mind, Huggy. Do you know how statistically rare false rape accusations are?  The notion that one unlucky man would get like, all of them for the entire year...lol.  ‘Astronomically improbable’ doesn’t even describe it.  That’s not a rational position.