Innocent until proven guilty.?

Question

The victim is telling the truth.

How do these two thoughts exist at the same time?

What would happen to the justice system if one become stronger then the other?

Answer 1

The alleged assailant can post bail.  Then a jury can decide guilt or innocence.  To have any more concern for the accused of a crime than you do for the victim, whose life HAS DEFINITIVELY been changed and in part ruined is to pervert the justice system.

If your child was murdered, would you not  want anyone to be charged, because they might not be guilty, and would you give up the court's right to try the defendent, simply because in a few cases the accused is found not guilty, as differentiated from being found innocent.  To do that is to place more value on the possibly guilty alleged assailant that the absolutely wronged victim of crime.

If you read between the lines of all questions along this line in reference to rape, you will see that what is being said is - they were just raped - that is not harmful, and they victim of rape - usually a woman is not socially as important as the perperator of the crime - usually male, and the male is so much more socially important than any female that you cannot even put them in prison until they post bail, because it causes harm to their life that is greater than the harm of rape.  Essentially, the entire argument diminishes the life-long, life destroying damage endured by a rape victim.  Also, considering how many rapes go unreported, I estimate that 10,000 times more rapists get away with rape than men get falsely accused of rape.  

     You must also consider where the false rape accusation statistics come from.  They include all accused rapists found "not guilty."  Not guilty does NOT mean "innocent," and does NOT mean that the accusation was false.  It only means that the evidence was insufficient.

Answer 2

people can loose friends with the statement Innocent at all cost some people need to let the friend know that it is over

Answer 3

The victim is telling the truth. - Really, how do you know?

I doubt if false rape allegations are rare - the problem is more, that false rape allegations are not equally punished. Most accusers filing deliberately false police reports are getting away with a few days in jail and some community work. False rape allegations should be punished with same sentences as rape.

If a crime is frequent, as some posters are claiming here - rape, or if a crime is (maybe?) rare, like false rape allegations, is irrelevant. These are crimes and in both cases the person accused should be considered innocent until proven guilty.

Not only rape might destroy the victim's life, false rape allegations also destroy the victim's life.

Answer 4

you are arrested based on allegations, your life is then turned upside down and the fight is on to try to prove your innocents wile they work to maintain your guilty............. seems to me that it is the other way around guilty tell you are proven innocent by due process and if you take the due process away than it is just plain guilty.