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Any convicted acquaintance sexual assault case to share? (news?)?

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seems so hard to find.

those cases seem never able to proceed to court.

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  1. True!

    It could relate to the fact that the judicial system revictimizes the victim to the point of insanity beginning from the initial police report to so called family and mutual friends judgemental views.

    No true support systems, either. Yeah, they exists, but it rarely is productive. Victims are convinced to simply let it go because the perps are unlikely to be prosecuted. The victim is left unjustified and the perps are out to do it again simply covering his tracks better. Thus the date rape drugs existence.


  2. Please elaborate....Your question seems to be a little cryptic...Thank you

  3. You do get them but with 'Acquaintance factor' a key point,  establishing the facts can be a problem for both sides in celebrity cases(the more highly publicised) as well as those against ordinary defendants. Prosecutors say such cases become more difficult when there is an "acquaintance factor" — when the accuser and the accused knew each other before the alleged incident.

    Mary Keenan, the Boulder County, Colo., district attorney who reopened the JonBenet Ramsey murder case in 2002, says sexual assault victims often have their credibility challenged if they did not report the crime quickly or do not remember details exactly. Keenan contends they may delay because of the trauma they have suffered.

    In acquaintance-rape cases, Keenan says, "You seldom hear the word 'rape' in the first 12 hours. People don't want to believe they've been raped."

    Instead, Keenan says, "What you go through is self-blaming and self-guilt, because you know this person. It takes awhile for the mind to process that it wasn't your fault. That can take 12 hours, 24 hours or 48 hours before it sinks in. In the meantime a victim will make lots of statements, and you may lose physical evidence. Until they talk to somebody else, they don't figure out it's rape, and then the defense uses that against you."

  4. Huh?

  5. Do you mean among the people here? Surely they would be on different web sites!

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