Sexual assault?

trigg_27

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I was browsing through the Daily Fail earlier (yes I know, but it's funny) and I came across a story about a man who has pleaded guilty to sexual assault and now has to sign the Sex Offender's register after he "put his arm around a woman's shoulder then kissed the startled woman on her shoulder, neck and back of her head."

Surely I can't be the only one who thinks this is going a little too far? It isn't all that long ago that if you made an unwanted advance to a woman, she would let you know with a slap to the face and that would be the end of it - if matters even progressed that far. Most times, the woman would discourage such behaviour long before any actual physical contact was made, often with little more than a stern look.

Is it just that we as a society have lost the social skills that were employed by previous generations?
 
Personally I don't see the problem with it.

EDIT: I mean I don't see a problem with the charge.
 
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Link to story? Details from the OP are scant

Suffice to say I tend not to go up to random woman and start kissing them on the back of the head and neck because it's completely wrong and funnily enough does sound like sexual assault.

And he's pleaded guilty anyway...
 
Pretty dodgy behaviour to be honest, definitely not normal.

Always good to see which comments get upvoted and downvoted on the dailyfail though.
 
My one time of Jury service was a sexual assault case about 20 years ago. The guidance we were given then was the three 'B's: Bum, boobs and between the legs for it to count as a sexual assault. On that (presumably out of date ?) definition its not sexual assault - or there is a lot more to it than described in the article. Yes he screwed up and should not have made the pass, but a registered sex offender for what is described does seem like overkill to me.
 
Reading further into the article, the victim is now apparently seeing a counsellor and is living in fear of bumping into him in the street. That seems more than a little excessive for the circumstances as described
 
Aye, if a friend told me some guy did this to them I would probably agree that's creepy but being put on the sex offenders register is utterly insane.
 
Given the obvious tone of the article and the way the headline immediately tries to play down the incident as a peck on the shoulder, I suspect the rest of the article somewhat understates the events.

It takes a few seconds to kiss someone in three different places so if she's now in counselling I'd be wholly unsurprised to find he was attempting to restrain her, otherwise it'd have been easy to just move away from him. Other articles refer to him putting his arm round her from behind, which sounds far more 'grabby' and much less 'friendly arm around a shoulder'
 
It's 2018. Everybody knows you need consent forms signed in triplicate with at least one solicitor present.

As others have said, super creepy. How long is he on the register for? If it's for life that's overkill, agreed. If it's a couple months then still a bit harsh, but lesson learned potentially.
 
"Freeman had ‘accepted the physical act in interview,’ but not the words it was alleged had accompanied that"

I wonder what was said?
 
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