Strauss kahn accused of rape

I mean I would if I weren't married :p. If my wife reads this, just remember that you swoon every time Ben Fogle comes on TV! And that King Arthur actor too for that matter!
 
If this ends up going out the window, it'd make a strong case for anonymity for the accused. Losing a presidential candidacy over what would be (in such a situation) an unfounded and false accusation surely must make someone sit up and take notice.
 
Deadbeat said:
If this ends up going out the window, it'd make a strong case for anonymity for the accused. Losing a presidential candidacy over what would be (in such a situation) an unfounded and false accusation surely must make someone sit up and take notice.
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Just because a case is dropped does NOT mean the accusation is false. Many women don't like the idea of spending three days in the witness box answering intimate questions about their sex life, plus being forced to describe the rape in full detail over an over again, and so drop the charges, for instance. In many cases there's not enough conclusive evidence for a conviction (or the prosecution feels so) so the prosecution drop the case even if the woman IS willing to be treated as a **** on the stand. In fact, it turns out the proportion of rape cases dropped before a trial in the UK is about the same as for most other crimes except murder. Are you suggesting that all those burglary victims weren't actually burgled? I'm sure a few are lying, but in the case of rape alone a lot of people take this to mean that all case where the case is dropped means that the accuser is lying.


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I hate things like this. People accused of rape and then found innocent. Their careers are over even if they didn't do it, after the media coverage no one will touch them. These things should be kept behind closed doors until a verdict has been made.
 
Im going to don my tin foil hat on this one and say there is a definite smell of politicking in the air. I don't know who he ****** off, or how powerful they are, but i think there is a good chance he weed in somebody's pool.

Its the sort of thing that happens in Hustle or holywood movies. They defraud the bad head honcho guy then frame him to make him look silly.
 
The reporting over this has been amusing, mainly the 'experts' they wheel out.

Very 'damning' verdicts they drop in, given they know absolutely nothing more than us.
 
From what I read in the paper he has had all sorts of “dalliances” with women and appears to be quite a swinger. The French establishment don’t bat an eyelid about this sort of thing and sweep it all under the carpet. Looks like he should have waited until he got back home.
 
It has emerged the 32-year-old and her 15-year-old daughter were being housed in a Bronx apartment block by Harlem Community Aids United. The charity has not revealed the medical status of the maid, who is a migrant from Guinea, west Africa, but did confirm it only rents apartments for adults with either HIV or Aids.
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It just gets worse and worse
 
Meridian said:
Just because a case is dropped does NOT mean the accusation is false. Many women don't like the idea of spending three days in the witness box answering intimate questions about their sex life, plus being forced to describe the rape in full detail over an over again, and so drop the charges, for instance. In many cases there's not enough conclusive evidence for a conviction (or the prosecution feels so) so the prosecution drop the case even if the woman IS willing to be treated as a **** on the stand. In fact, it turns out the proportion of rape cases dropped before a trial in the UK is about the same as for most other crimes except murder. Are you suggesting that all those burglary victims weren't actually burgled? I'm sure a few are lying, but in the case of rape alone a lot of people take this to mean that all case where the case is dropped means that the accuser is lying.


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Very very true.
 
simulatorman said:
From what I read in the paper he has had all sorts of “dalliances” with women and appears to be quite a swinger. The French establishment don’t bat an eyelid about this sort of thing and sweep it all under the carpet. Looks like he should have waited until he got back home.
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French culture in general tends to be quite macho (until there's a war on that is :p). They often say English men tend to be gay. If by gay they mean 'don't go around molesting women', then I guess they're right. I'm certainly gay.
 
SB118 said:
You have to think of the greater good, a persons career can recover in 6-7 years.
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Lol at this mystical '6-7 years' figure without any context or defining of the word 'recover'. If it was a 'waste management officer' his 'career' might recover within 1-2 years, whereas if it's the head of the IMF...not so much.
 
SB118 said:
You have to think of the greater good, a persons career can recover in 6-7 years.
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Seriously? Have your entire life turned upside down, maybe have a divorce with the fallout with the kids, lose your job, perhaps have to move as you cannot stay in the same area and that is acceptable if you were totally innocent and worth the price paying to get the people who are guilty?

I say the person shouldn't be named until found guilty. Then pull him to peices in the press etc.

And why the hell did he not get bail? I beleive he has a house and an American wife and a daughter who lives in the states and they could have kept his passport/put him under house arrest but to lock a "innocent until proven guilty" guy up in a maximum security prison until trial seems mad as well. The chances of him been a threat to the public and/or fleeing was minimal.

PS like my new sig Robbie G?
 
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