Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Rape.

A rape victim whose attack led a judge to warn that drunk women were putting themselves in danger has defended the comments, saying the judge was "right".
Megan Clark, 19, was raped by a man she met in a Burger King restaurant after a night out in Manchester in July last year.
The trial caused controversy after the judge, Lindsey Kushner, said that the drunken behaviour of some women was putting them at risk.
Miss Clark's attacker, Ricardo Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes, 19, was found guilty at Manchester Crown Court of two counts of rape last month. The court heard how he ignored Miss Clark's screams while he attacked her.
But, waiving her right to anonymity, Miss Clark said the judge had told women to "be careful", adding it was "good advice". 
She told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she took the judge's comments in "a positive way", adding that she did not believe she was "victim-blaming".
"She was right in what she said," Miss Clark said.
The teenager had been drinking alcohol before the attack and had inhaled the party drug amyl nitrite, the court heard. Telegraph.
How the judge's remarks have even been considered controversial (by the usual suspects, of course) is beyond me.
People do stoopid things when drunk. If an inebriated person is weaving in and out of motorway traffic, do we play the blame game with the driver of the vehicle which hits them?
And NO! That is not excusing rape to any degree whatsoever!

Elephantine Tragedies.

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