Apparently you are not familiar with this topic, or you would know that going to the police almost never does anything in this situation.
Posting a factual account of events is not an "internet mob."
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!
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.
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.