So It is Not rape if you Rape a woman who is drunk!
Drunk Woman
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The incident took place in the 46-year-old man’s in November 2013 when the two returned to the man’s apartment after having dinner together at a restaurant inGothenburg.
The 21-year-old woman told the court the last thing she remembers from the evening is falling asleep in the man’s apartment with her clothes on before waking up the following afternoon to find herself locked in a room.
In its decision, the Gothenburg District Court ruled there was no doubt the woman was intoxicated, noting that she was so drunk she “fell to the ground and lay there awhile”, the Metro newspaper reported.
Tests later revealed the woman’s blood alcohol-level was between 2.0 and 2.5 per mille, more than ten times the legal limit in Sweden, putting her in what the court called a “particularly vulnerable situation”.
Reform’s to Sweden’s sex-crime legislation implemented in July 2013 redefined the term “incapacitated state” to “particularly vulnerable situation”, which in effect re-classifies certain types of sexual assault as rape.The reforms were meant to apply to cases where a victim responds to a sexual assault by remaining passive, allowing them to be treated as rape.
But the man told the court that he didn’t realize the woman was drunk when they were back at his flat, adding that during intercourse she was “active” and “made certain noises”.
In acquitting the man of the rape charges, the court ruled it had not been proven that the man “understood or was aware that” the woman was drunk nor that he knowingly acted against the woman’s wishes.”
First came from Lawyer that Supreme Court Judge,Since retired,, has attempted to rape her, though it has been put in polite terms, in a law site.
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Lawyer complains of Rape.
In Delhi at that time, interning during the winter vacations of my final year in University, I dodged police barricades and fatigue to go to the assistance of a highly reputed, recently retired Supreme Court judge whom I was working under during my penultimate semester. For my supposed diligence, I was rewarded with sexual assault (not physically injurious, but nevertheless violating) from a man old enough to be my grandfather. I won’t go into the gory details, but suffice it to say that long after I’d left the room, the memory remained, in fact, still remains, with me.
So what bothered me about this incident? As a conditioned member of the society, I had quickly “gotten over” the incident. But was that what worried me: that I had accepted what was essentially an ‘unacceptable’ situation. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the crux of my unease lay in my inability to find a frame in which to talk, or even think, about my experience. While the incident affected me deeply, I felt little anger and almost no rancour towards the man; instead I was shocked and hurt that someone I respected so much would do something like this. My strongest reaction really, was overwhelming sadness. But this sort of response was new to me. That I could understand his actions and forgive him for them, or that I could continue to think of him as an essentially ‘good’ person, seemed a naïve position that were completely at odds with what I had come to accept was the “right” reaction to such incidents.”
Very Sanctimonious indeed.
One waits nearly a year, that too a Lawyer!
As an excuse.’conditioned member’?
Now she has become unconditioned?
I did not feel angry but sad?
More wish-wash.
Can you check into your Psyche and come with another explanation for your emotions and reactions?
Very nice.
People with no sense of Right or Wrong, even when you are wronged?
Something wrong somewhere.
Now more people have come out alleging sexual misconduct in the Bar, Justice department.
Why have they not reported immediately?
For personal safety or Gain?
Has some one been compensated or not compensated earlier?
Now we have one more on Tejpal of Tehelka for misbehaving with a colleague.
Now there is a version it is consensual!
I have posted earlier that these accusations of Rape, if not reported immediately cast a doubt on the motivations of the victims?
Is it pecuniary,or Professional advantage one is looking at?
When these are secured are complaints made?
Or are they made because the obligations are not met?
In cases of this nature, rape gains the Headlines and Truth may lie somewhere in between.
Pressure mounted on former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal as the Goa police on Friday said a first information report (FIR) had been lodged against him on charges of sexual assault and rape. The state police officials were said to be examining CCTV footage from ThinkFest, an event organised by the magazine, and the Grand Hyatt hotel where the alleged incident took place earlier this month. Delhi police visited Tejpal’s residence in the evening.
As angry reactions from politicians and activists poured in, Tehelka’s Managing Editor Shoma Choudhary told a TV channel that there was a “second version” of the incident, which she had dismissed before accepting the survivor’s demand for an unconditional apology. She said a complaints committee set up by the magazine underUrvashi Butalia to investigate the matter would include members from outside the organisation and the second version would be presented before them.
Satish Mehta, director, Anant Media, which runs the magazine, said he would speak on the matter on Monday. Mehta is also a director in several Alchemist Group companies, run by Chandigarh-based Trinamool Congress leader Kanwar Deep Singh. Singh, who owns Anant Media through his investment companies, did not reply to phone calls and text messages. Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien, who had tweeted on Thursday saying that Singh had told him that he did not own Tehelka, said he had already aired his views on TV. In a tweet thereafter, O’Brien said, “Getting calls from pink papers as to who owns Tehelka. Don’t know, don’t care. Only concern is the sexual assault case.”
Tejpal in a statement said, “There have been serious allegations cast on me in this last week, and unfortunately as sometimes happens in life, the complete truth and the need to do the honourable thing can come into conflict. In this case this anguish was accentuated by the fact that very many intimate people, professional and personal, were involved.” http://jilsblognujs.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/through-my-looking-glass/
The World press reported that Sweden allows Public Masturbation, quoting The Swedish paper’ Local’.
The Independent, TIME are some of the prominent papers that have published this story.
However the original story was corrected by the paper and this is yet to be reflected in the Europe’s Media.
Story:
Much of the world seems to be under the impression that Sweden now allows public masturbation, likely due in part to a small but crucial error in a quote that appeared on The Local. Managing Editor James Savage sets the record straight.
Every newspaper cocks up once in a while. Today, The Local got caught with its trousers down. Unfortunately, it concerned an article that had already erupted onto the pages of the world press.
The article in question was about a masturbating Swede caught in the act on a public beach. He was hauled before a Swedish court, but acquitted of sexual molestation because he was not “aiming” at anyone in particular. This much was true.
Unfortunately, our article included a typo in a quote that prosecutor Olof Vrethammar gave to the local edition of the excellent Mitt i newspaper, which first broke the story.
In our article, he was quoted as saying that following the ruling “we can conclude that it is OK to masturbate on the beach”. The problem is, the original quote actually said “we CAN’T conclude that it is OK”. Somehow, despite several sets of editors’ eyes looking at the story, we missed this crucial error – the quote seemed to make sense in context (we have since corrected the article).
As luck would have it, newspapers around the world picked up the story (and the quote), giving many readers – and not just The Local’s readers – the impression that no-holds barred sexual exhibitionism was now legal in Sweden. Of course, it is not.
Before we were even made aware of the original error in the quote (thanks, Vice Magazine) we became concerned that the global media coverage might give people the wrong idea about Sweden. Some commenters even joked they planned to buy plane tickets to this spectacular – and in many ways beguilingly liberal – country on the basis of the story. We therefore published this interview with the prosecutor in which he clarified what the ruling did and did not mean.
Of course, the original mistake should have been caught earlier. We should have checked and double-checked the article against the original quote – as we usually do. If we’ve caused prosecutor Vrethammar any embarrassment, we’re sorry. And in the unlikely event that anyone has booked a ticket to Sweden on the basis of this story, come anyway – it’s one of the world’s most beautiful places – but please, keep your trousers on.
A 65-year-old Swedish man was acquitted of sexual assault after pleasuring himself on a beach in Stockholm in June.
The district court of Södertörn tossed out the charge on the grounds that he didn’t look at anybody while fondling himself. The court ruled he had committed no offense, as he did not direct his “activities” at any particular target.
Public prosecutor Olof Vrethammar told the Mitti newspaper that he had no plans to appeal and called the ruling “reasonable.” When asked if the act is now acceptable in public, Vrethammar said public fondling was “okay” – as long as it’s not directed towards a specific individual — but may still be considered “disorderly conduct.”
Regardless, the ruling may serve as a precedent in Sweden, where some uncomfortable public exchanges may be imminent. Our advice? Wait til you get home, folks.
I had posted a couple of days ago on Male Harassment and Helpline numbers.
I am posting now information on Males who survived Rape from Women/Men.
Story:
A 19-year-old man has come forward and reported his own sexual assault that took place March 30 in Toronto. The report singles out four women as the assailants, highlighting not only the brutality of the assault, but the bravery of the victim to come forward in a world where sexual assault against men is rarely reported.
Allegedly, the victim was alone the night of the assault until he met the women at a nightclub. They offered him a ride home, drove a few blocks away to a parking lot, and sexually assaulted the man. When they were finished, they drove him a few blocks further and let him out of the car.
The US Air force , in its Brochure, had advised its personnel to submit to ‘sexual assault, rather than resist’
As it is, the US soldiers are following this on their own women soldiers.
Does this apply to War front as well ?
Submit to sexual assault, US Air Force
An Air Force brochure on sexual assault advises potential victims not to fight off their attackers.
“It may be advisable to submit [rather] than resist,” reads the brochure (.pdf), issued to airmen at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, where nearly 10,000 military and civilian personnel are assigned. “You have to make this decision based on circumstances. Be especially careful if the attacker has a weapon.”
The brochure, acquired by Danger Room, issues a series of guidances on “risk reduction” for sexual assault. Among others, it advises people under sexual attack in parking lots to “consider rolling underneath a nearby auto and scream loud. It is difficult to force anyone out from under a car.” A public affairs officer at Shaw, Sgt. Alexandria Mosness, says she believes the brochure is current.
While the brochure also explains that sexual assault is not always committed by people who “don’t look like a rapist” — attackers “tend to have hyper-masculine attitudes,” it advises — it does not offer instruction to servicemembers on not committing sexual assault. Prevention is treated as the responsibility of potential victims.
“Rapists look for vulnerability and then exploit it in those who: are young (naive); are new to the base, deployment, area, etc.; are emotionally unstable,” the brochure (.pdf) continues.
All this comes as the Air Force, and the U.S. military more broadly, deals with the fallout of the service’s sexual-assault prevention and response chief, Lt. Col Jeffrey Krusinski, getting arrested on sexual-battery charges on Sunday. During a Senate hearing today, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), grilled Air Force officials on how Krusinski was placed in his post. “His record is very good,” Gen. Mark Welsh III, the Air Force’s chief of staff, said, citing a lack of warning signs in Krusinski’s prior service..
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