MA State Rep Vows to "Rip Apart" 6-Year-Old Rape Victims on Witness Stand

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

I don't mean this in a dick way, but you missed his point entirely.

I don't mean this in a bitchy way, but I think you missed my point entirely.

I wasn't suggesting that mandatory sentences solve the problem. I'm actually not in favor or mandatory sentences at all.

Way to avoid the main point of my post though. My comment to MC was just an afterthought.

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

Really? What are you basing that on?

18 years of study plus some common sense.

The Jordan article actually does not deal with rape at all (which is the topic of this thread and the topic of my post.) Rape and molestation, within this context, are not one and the same.

All I said was simply that child rape is easier to prove than molestation and other types of abuse. Why? Due to the difference between rape and other types of abuse some very obvious physical evidence makes it easier to prove. Do I really have to spell it out in graphic detail?

Yes, children are highly suggestible. I am NOT in any way suggesting that false accusations do not occur.


** Points that will inevitibly be ignored or twisted are in bold.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

The Jordan article actually does not deal with rape at all (which is the topic of this thread and the topic of my post.) Rape and molestation, within this context, are not one and the same.

All I said was simply that child rape is easier to prove than molestation and other types of abuse. Why? Due to the difference between rape and other types of abuse some very obvious physical evidence makes it easier to prove. Do I really have to spell it out in graphic detail?

Yes, children are highly suggestible. I am NOT in any way suggesting that false accusations do not occur.


** Points that will inevitibly be ignored or twisted are in bold.

You are being an extreme bitch. What field do you study this in? I worked in the county where the Jordan issues occurred (obviously much later because in 1984 I was kind of busy learning how to crawl) and people were saying "My daddy raped me!" right along with "Random dude down the street who dresses in black touches my naughty bits. This all turned out to be FALSE. There's a book called Nightmares and Secrets by Tom Dubbe that's on the same issue if you'd like to read more about it, but one would think that somewhere in your 18 years of study plus common sense you would have already heard about this. You might also want to look further into the Cleveland scandal.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

I don't mean this in a bitchy way, but I think you missed my point entirely.

I wasn't suggesting that mandatory sentences solve the problem. I'm actually not in favor or mandatory sentences at all.

Way to avoid the main point of my post though. My comment to MC was just an afterthought.

OK - then what was your point?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

OK - then what was your point?

Ditto, because not meaning to be dense about it, but I read your comment the same way KSig RC did, and I'm not really seeing any other way to read it.

I do, however, see your point about the physical injuries that often would be associated with the rape of a child making such cases a little more clear cut than sexual assault or molestation cases.