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[hellison]

Is there something up with lj, or is it just me? Everything has gone wonky.

Anyway. 'nother interview today, same as last one only for a grade up (in civil service terms) so it was tougher and a lot more on policy and management. Bleh. Hopefully managed not to disgrace self, and I think achieved the main purpose of going which was to hammer home to our useless director (who was on the panel) the relevance of what I actually do now, since my current manager helpfully informed a while back that he doesn't have a clue and didn't think it was anything relevant (barely restrained myself at the time from pointing out Very Strongly and Loudly that surely it was HER JOB to make him aware... but meh).

Anyway tis done now, thank god and the Central Library Book sale is on so YAY.


In news of less yay and more Complete Fucking Outrage -

Rapist jailed for 8 years

Surely this is a good thing? Well no, it's fucking not.
He and a friend caught a young girl with a group of male friends, robbed them and forced them to watch while he raped her twice, then phoned her mother to tell her how much he "enjoyed raping your girl".
He initially denied it but switched his plea to guilty at the last minute (given he was found still with her phone when arrested, not to mention DNA and the eye witnesses...).

Eight years. For rape, theft, false imprisonment...
Except it's NOT. We still have 50% remittence. So it's FOUR years.
Time on remand counts as double and gets taken off. So he could be out of jail before she's out of her teens.

If that's all he gets with that amount of proof - evidence described by the judge as "overwhelming "- AND admitting he did it, is it any wonder so many rapes and attacks go unreported?
The 'friend' who helped, held off *her* friends & robbed them and watched?
Out on probation.

What's the fucking *point*?

Comments

[kanaalzahir.livejournal.com]

NFEEAAGH. This is an accurate impression of me trying not to post but my fingers took over. Anyway.

Two points.

One. repton_infinity (hi, have we met?) makes one of my constant points about the problems with sex crimes. In muggings, "all" you have to do (which is not necessarily easy) is to prove that the suspect wapped the victim over the head and took their monies. In rape cases, it's not enough to prove that the suspect and the victim had sex, not even in what seems to be a somewhat kinky and strange way, to prove rape. You have to prove that it wasn't consentual (is that a word?).

Two. The judiciary as a whole are not insensitive horrible old farts who hate young women and believe they all lie. You don't know *anything* about their feelings, when they for instance have to judge the evidence as not satisfactory. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but this sort of prejudice pisses me off every single time I see it.

[hieronymousmosh.livejournal.com]

re: #2 in particular, as hellison points out, it was the Judge who described the evidence against the defendant as overwhelming.
So I guess I'm not sure where you're going with that . . .

[kanaalzahir.livejournal.com]

Exactly where it says. It wasn't a comment on the specific case.