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[–] facepaint 2 points 2 points (+4|-2) ago 

Hendricks was eventually sentenced to two life sentences for raping women.

According to the article, he was a serial rapist. Evidently the prosecutor thought her testimony was necessary to put him behind bars for a long long time to come. While placing the witness behind bars to ensure her testimony was not ideal. I far prefer that over a serial rapist being let free to abuse more women.

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[–] issueninja 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The woman was raped once by a criminal and once by the criminal "justice" system.

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[–] youareivan 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

i'm in a bit of a quandary over this.

on one hand it seems pretty shitty to jail someone because they decide it's not in their interest to testify. i think it's wrong to force someone who hasn't done anything illegal to do something against their will like that.

on the other hand, how often do you hear of some dude who is accused of rape and then a bunch of women come out of the blue saying they were raped too? i'm thinking of cosby because it's pretty high profile, but it seems pretty frequent that this happens. i don't think those women should be arrested but i certainly don't understand why women who don't come forward aren't subject to some negatives like peer pressure for being selfish in a way that allowed a serial rapist- allegedly in the case of cosby- to keep raping. i hear plenty of people critical of the blue wall of silence when cops allow other bad policeman to continue to break the law or when people who say you shouldn't snitch allow criminals to continue to criminal.

why isn't there ever any kind of negative criticism for women refusing to testify against rapists? i certainly understand in the past- like the 60's or 70's- that women would be called names and treated badly for being assaulted but that simply doesn't happen any more... unless you live in certain islamic countries. however, there have been tons of laws passed to protect women who testify against rapist so it doesn't make sense that they don't. worse still these women are treated sympathetically even thought they allow rapists to continue to abuse other women.

that's why i feel ambivalent in this case. i don't feel that there are the same negative results from reporting a sex crime as there used to be so i don't understand why this woman wouldn't want to prosecute the fucker who assaulted her.

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[–] aristotle07 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

This epitomizes the problem with rape in our culture today. The biggest problem is psychology. Its how women who are actually raped behave after a rape vs how entitled women behave to get what they want most often time revenge for being spurned.

I've never met a women who was really raped that wants to live through the psychological damage any more than they have to, even if it means to testify. Once in a while you'll find a very brave rape victim who will come forward for the better good of society.

This also perpetuates the problem of rapists not actually being put away.

False rape reporters are opportunists. The will come forward at the drop of a hat for attention, limelight, money, revenge. Rape is a psychological event. Women who will come forward like they did for Cosby or Trump are probably making it up 98% of the time. There's like 2% truth to it in that they touched their arm or something else that wasn't rape.

The problem has gotten so out of hand, rapists run free, rape victims don't get the help they need, false rape reporters are rampant, innocent guys have their lives ruined and even when proven innocent are ruined forever. This is why I think false rape reporters should be put in jail because the effort and resources that goes towards those bitches could be going to this rape victim so she can heal and feel strong enough to testify and put this guy in jail where he belongs.