basically yes
basically yes
It also shows how we have a society that prioritised rehabilitating the reputations of athletes over creating a safer environment for women.
Got to say, I'm currently finding it very, very easy to be a feminist, given the scads of evidence of it's requirement.
Quite sad really.
Yep.
It draws into light, what the point of prison is again.
Deterrant - looking at prison populations vs crime rates there appears to be no correlation.
Rehabilitation - repeat offenders and people who are utterly unrepentent about their actions
Punishment - repeat offender rates show this isn't too good (though it is a compund issue with rehabilitiaton). But with crimes against a person how can any punishment or amount of gaol time be equivalent to the victim having to live every day for the rest of their lives with their experiance.
I just don't understand how two people stood trial. Both apparently slept with the victim, One was convicted of rape and one not. If she's too drunk to consent shouldn't both be guilty?
But as it stands at the moment he is a convicted rapist, unless he successfully appeals he will always be a convicted rapist. Its split the fanbase. The idiots on local radio don't do anyone any favours. and the club have handled it badly.
But someone will employ him. because there's been convicted sex offenders play before. Wednesday have/had a player with GBH on their books, and I think there's a player that killed someone through drink driving currently playing in the league somewhere, someone is going to take him on.
Somebody will undoubtly. Because like everything money crushes underfoot morality. A talented player could make a team perform better which gives them more gate revenue that might lead to silverware/promotiopn which gives them more money etc.
I do agree it does seem strange, and paradoxical, surely if you can't give consent you can't regardless. I don't know the ins and outs to be fair. But ho hum
They both stood trial at the same time 40kGamer, I think in front of the same jury not two separate trials.