How to discourage women from reporting rape

[BrilloPad]

Eleanor de Freitas' father's agony after suicide three days before trial  | Daily Mail Online

When rape convictions still run at very low levels.

Maybe there should be a mandatory consent form introduced?

Though one can be divorced for not having regular sex with your partner. Not sure how often regular is though.....

[mudskipper]

It's a tough one.

To be falsely accused of rape must be devastating. I imagine there must be at least one instance where the accused has topped himself.

If someone does falsely accuse someone of rape, then they should be prosecuted.

Unfortunately, without a court case, there is no way of establishing whether accusations of rape, or accusations of false accusations are proven or not.

We definitely don't want to discourage women from reporting rape, but we do want to discourage women from falsely reporting rape.

So what do you do?

[I just need to test it]

This seems a world away from "innocent until proven guilty", doesn't it? Maybe that's the chief problem here.

[jmo21]

In this instance the police believed her, but didn't have enough evidence to prosecute.

The accused spent £200,000 pushing for a prosecution.

Those 2 things seem quite at odds with each other.

Not that the police are always right of course.

Getting away with it, if that is what happened, and THEN spending £200,000 to get the girl prosecuted sounds particularly evil.

[NotAllThere]

And if it didn't happen, and was a false accusation, then spending 200K to clear your reputation might well be money well spent.

[BrilloPad]

So what do you do?

Take it on a case by case basis. In this case the girl was clearly unwell. The case should have been struck out long ago.

The family courts regularly issue orders stopping (mostly) men from applying for contact with their children. So it is possible. It should have happened here.

I would introduce a government approved voluntary sexual consent form to see if it helps.

I have twins boy/girl. I have to confess I would take very different attritudes if they were raped or accused or rape.

And rapists, where there is absolute total proof that they were gulity, should be castrated.

[Paddy]

I would introduce a government approved voluntary sexual consent form to see if it helps


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A smartphone app? But make sure your phone is charged.

[TykeMerc]

And if it didn't happen, and was a false accusation, then spending 200K to clear your reputation might well be money well spent.

Maybe, but with the accuser dead and there being very limited ability to arrive at the truth how could he ever claim to have cleared his name?

[sal]

There are probably more than one side to this sad story and the truth will never come out, but should CPS stop prosecuting anyone who appears suicidal...

'If the CPS had put a stop to this I'd still have a daughter'

Just like she had a right to accuse someone of rape, he had the right to accuse her of false accusations

[vetran]

All a bit sad, if alleged rapists had anonymity unless otherwise decreed by a judge then the chap would have nothing to start a private prosecution on.

If the CPS had listened to the police she might not of had felt so trapped.

With my limited experience of the criminal justice system its obvious many of those 'professionals' involved are woefully incompetent.