Is It Now Time That The Accuser In These Cases Was Also Publicly Named And Shown?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4909300/Former-student-accused-rape-female-friend-cleared.html

This young chap has gone through three years and two court cases only to be finely cleared of rape, whereas the accuser remains unidentified and free to carry on with her life with no 'there's no smoke without fire' comments made against her.

[youngmafbog]

Obviously not impossible but highly unlikely me thinks TTT.

Neither should be named. Naming is simply Plod being lazy and going on a free fishing trip, something that is not accorded to the defence.

[ToraToraTora]

pixie, help me out, how is she, on top, the victim?

[jim360]

Not having sat in the courtroom, or the jury room, I can't say why the jury reached their verdict. What I can say is that I'm not going to use a single throwaway line in a newspaper report to reach a decision.

The woman said that she "woke up" on top of him, which may mean that he manoeuvred her there, or maybe she sort of cooperated while half-asleep and not aware of what was going on, only to recognise that she was being coerced into sex as she regained proper consciousness. Or whatever. It doesn't matter, since the man in question has been acquitted -- but it doesn't at all stand to reason that the woman being on top means that it cannot have been rape. All that is required is lack of consent (and lack of reasonable belief of this).

[ToraToraTora]

I can see that jim, I was wondering what revaluation pixie was referring to.

[pixie374]

Exactly what Jim said.