Sexual assault is a crime, and she should report this to the police and press charges.
A blog post isn't going to get justice, but the courts might.
Internet mob justice isn't justice.
A blog post isn't going to get justice, but the courts might.
Internet mob justice isn't justice.
So now it's internet mob behaviour if she posts her side of the story?
You don't even know if the assault happened and you are judging this man without a trial. You are a a goddamn imbecile. There were two witnesses, that's pretty clear cut.
His blog post has nothing to do with the alleged assault and you produce that as evidence of his guilt? I'm glad you're not running the legal system.
Google is more powerful than you may think. This is not an empty gesture.
Neither was the assault.
I think police attitudes toward this stuff are probably one of the biggest stumbling blocks on the path to eradicating it. Think of how much progress could be made if reports were taken seriously and actually investigated with the levels of effort they put into investigating murder or drug trafficking.
Posting a factual account of events is not an "internet mob."
Especially if there were two witness bar staff!
Furthermore, I didn't say 'crimes,' I said sexual assault. Again, I am not being abstract: if you talk to anyone who works with sexual assault victims, you know how futile that course of action is.
Let's not forget that lawyers cost money, for example.
Character assassination without trial is better? The courts exist for a reason and there were two witnesses.
Do you have any citations for the futility of reporting a crime with two witnesses?
http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-ra...
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/43249/
That's just two.
"The victim of a rape or sexual assault possesses a rare commodity, the knowledge of the crime (Allen, 2007). In most rape and sexual assault cases there is little physical evidence to prove that there was an assault or to differentiate the assault from consensual sexual activity. Consequently, in any rape case, the outcome of the trial is highly dependent on the testimony of the victim. Therefore, victims rely heavily on their own credibility in the eyes of the public. In reporting a rape, victims are opening themselves up to society’s judgment and public scrutiny of their stories."
It doesn't even consider the possibility that there might be corraborating witnesses because there generally aren't. Also, the main point of the paper - that women don't report they were raped because of the social consequences of doing so - applies even more to writing a blog post about it than it does to reporting it to the police anyway.
This is the reality. I don't hold too much optimism that the police would somehow solve this problem considering the damage done and the lack of any support to go back to.
Two witnesses is pretty clear cut. It's called 'corroboration', you should look it up and learn something perhaps!
It should be expected not that victims live up to another's definition of responsibility, but that people be responsible enough not to create victims.
I don't see how somebody could tell it was unwanted from a third person perspective.
Thank god one of them gave her a chance to escape. Thank god there was one person not like you there.