Andalusite -> RE: Raped Mistress? (10/20/2009 8:41:27 AM)
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Loki, http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/articles/false-reports-moving-beyond-issue-successfully-investigate-and-prosecute-non-s indicates the percentage of false reports is between 2-8%, with the FBI's estimate at 8%. However, those include ones where the woman simply waited a few days to report the crime, or didn't seem sufficiently distraught in the officer's subjective opinion. One woman *was* jailed and charged with false report of a rape, as well as theft, and receiving stolen property when she was attacked at gunpoint while working at a convenience store. She was held without trial for over a year, and a month before the trial date, her attacker was caught in the act of raping a different woman. She was released, and sued the police. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09093/960350-100.stm If a woman does falsely accuse someone, that is of course wrong as well, but there are far more women who are actually raped and who do not report it. As to the one-night-stand scenario you mention, if a guy wants to fuck someone he doesn't know, he's at a small but non-zero risk of getting HIV, being accused of rape, not being informed if she gets pregnant, and so forth. She's at risk of getting pregnant, getting an STD, or him doing things she didn't agree to, whether or not it crosses the line into rape. Sex with a stranger is inherently riskier than with someone you know and have developed trust for, although that isn't a panacea either. Daven, if you didn't tell him "no," then it sounds like it didn't cross the line into rape. In this situation, it did.
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