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suspected rape victims......name them?
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Do you think peoples identity should remain annonymous until they have been convicted of rape?
I feel that if someone is on bail, remand or whatever their names should not be released. If someone is wrongly convicted they they have to live with this for the rest of their life. Mud sticks and some people are never the same again.
Women are protected and names not revealed in the media, I think men accused should also be this way.
Rape is a very traumatic thing to go through but also for someone wrongly accused it must be as traumatic.
So why do we still name the accused? what happened to innocent until proven guilty?
I watched Kilroy again this morning and this topic was being discussed. One man caught my eye, he had been arrested on suspected rape and named. His world turned upside down, he has been in a mental hospital and he will never be the same. His life at the time was horrendous and he still has to live with people thinking he did actually rape someone.
Its these men I feel sorry for and I think their identity should be protected untill they have actually been tried and found guilty.
So what do you people think?
I feel that if someone is on bail, remand or whatever their names should not be released. If someone is wrongly convicted they they have to live with this for the rest of their life. Mud sticks and some people are never the same again.
Women are protected and names not revealed in the media, I think men accused should also be this way.
Rape is a very traumatic thing to go through but also for someone wrongly accused it must be as traumatic.
So why do we still name the accused? what happened to innocent until proven guilty?
I watched Kilroy again this morning and this topic was being discussed. One man caught my eye, he had been arrested on suspected rape and named. His world turned upside down, he has been in a mental hospital and he will never be the same. His life at the time was horrendous and he still has to live with people thinking he did actually rape someone.
Its these men I feel sorry for and I think their identity should be protected untill they have actually been tried and found guilty.
So what do you people think?
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And no, I don't think that people should be named, when there's only a suspision. Especially not in a thing like rape, as if the women gives permission, she can get checked for DNA, which should help convict the rapist pretty easily, if they have caught him.
hhhmmmmmm yeah
dduuurrrrrr ignore the title because cant change it now can I
but you all know what I mean
Ive changed it now, cheers Jacq :thumb:
Oh no I havent
Mind you - the percentage of cases of rape taken to court that are found guilty is really low, Either there are very high levels of false rape claims or women are seeing their attackers get off scott free!
Some time ago I might have said name them, but after today hearing this fella and how its ruined his life then I now say dont name them unless they have been convicted.
And one man had his house and family attacked, with "PAEDO" sprayed on the walls. He was a paediatrician.
i agree with the 'innocent until proven guilty' thing.
people accused of rape are going to have a lot of stick from everyone that knows them. which is fair enough if they are actually guilty. but if they've been falsely accused, what's the sense in ruining someone's life for nothing?
girls crying rape doesn't happen often, but it does happen (my insane cousin has done it twice) and these men should be protected.
release their name AFTER a guilty verdict.
It should be the same for all crimes, in all honesty- innocent until proven guilty is the maxim of the British judicial system, and naming people before a guilty verdict leads people to believe that there is no smoke without fire, regardless of the actual truth.
There have been enough malicious claims of rape in recent years for this action to be justified- Leslie, Craig Charles, the Hamiltons...even in "real-life", last year a pharmacist in Newcastle was jailed for maliciously claiming rape after her boss had reprimanded her for poor work, and two students in Reading screamed rape against a professor who had failed their work in one module.