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Originally posted by Rudey
And yes even if the victim doesn't want to punish the rape lady (I'd rather reserve the label victim for the male since he's really the main character here), she should be punished. She should be punished for lying in court. She should be punished because her actions led to the punishment of a man whereby citizens and the government paid for that punishment.
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Do we know that she lied? What exactly was her testimony? If she honestly believed her testimony to be true, how has she done anything criminal? That's what I don't understand about your argument.
What were the circumstances of the rape? Was the woman drugged? drunk? Was it at night? I'm not going into any detail here but I'm fully aware how difficult it is to figure out what happened the night of a sexual assault. Now, if she didn't believe the man to be her attacker and she bore false testimony against him, that's truly outraged and should be punished. But if in the course of the investigation she became convinced it was him? I'm less sure there is a case. Who knows though, I'm no lawyer.