This image captures the moment a former high school football star breaks down in court when his rape charge is dismissed. The dismissal occurred after the 16-year-old accuser admitted that the alleged incident never happened, concluding six years he spent in prison.

  • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    25 days ago

    This image is from 2012. I am not sure why it is interesting (i.e. how it is nearly as interesting as anything else in this commag) nor why it is being dug up and posted now. It isn’t even a good photo.

    • blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      25 days ago

      OP shows why here. This is because he believes false accusations are a bigger problem than actual rape, and is trying to craft the narrative that women don’t get raped as much as they claim.

      This is an incel post.

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      25 days ago

      Because there’s a lot of discourse around the Cornell gang rape and people have a vested interest in making others disbelieve the Jane Doe in that case.

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        24 days ago

        Indeed, it’s why nothing should be made public and then public after the verdict.

        this is… a horror show

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          23 days ago

          Theres credible evidence that these shitsmears hunted her down and drugged her. This is EXACTLY the type of case I point to when I be moan poor situational awareness in the “victims” case, that voluntarily showing up to a frat party is a bad, bad, idea if you are female. These are the kind of degenerates that host them, I’M CALLING OUT THE FRAT BOYS in case it wasn’t clear, and saying what I’m saying as A WARNING to women not an admonishment of victimhood.

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    25 days ago

    So she ruined a man’s life, stole 6 years from him, made it so much harder for other woman to be believed…

    And her punishment will be?..

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      25 days ago

      I think we would all agree she deserves some form of punishment but I think we would also agree we don’t want to scare off other false accusers from rescinding their lies. That makes figuring out what to do a lot less black and white.

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        25 days ago

        What are you talking about?

        In 2013, the Long Beach Unified School District won a $2.6 million judgment against Gibson, recouping $750,000 paid to her along with attorney’s fees, interest, and $1 million in punitive damages;[25][26]

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        25 days ago

        Or men abused by men, or men abused by women. My brother was stabbed by a coked-up ex, and was arrested…until one of the cops realized he was bleeding, and was actually the person who phoned the police for protection. They just assumed he was the abuser…when she was.

        Assault is awful. Nobody should tolerate it, but the facts should outweigh the sentiment of the nation, or gender biases and stereotypes.

        Every situation is unique, and should be treated as such…without bias.

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      25 days ago

      very old story.
      thats why im on not onboard with various me too and whatever.
      its super easy to false accuse

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        25 days ago

        It’s so easy that people keep dragging out this one example from 14 years ago when he was exonerated for a false accusation made 24 years ago.

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          Interesting that this is posted today. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see the few cases like this being posted to help the narrative that rape victims commonly use false accusations.

          False rape accusations occur around the same rate as any other false crime accusation. About 5%.

          Compared to the fact that 90% of rape perpetrators never see the inside of the courtroom, it’s clear the entire system is fucked in how they handle rape cases.

          He was forced to take a plea deal before the case could be heard by a jury because of racism:

          Faced with a possible 41-year-to-life sentence, he accepted a plea bargain that included six years in prison, five years of probation, and registering as a sex offender. Banks stated that he took the deal after his lawyer told him that he stood almost no chance at trial because he would likely be tried by an all-white jury who would only see “a big, black teenager.” According to Banks, his lawyer convinced him that by pleading no contest he would receive probation, but no jail time. With only ten minutes to decide and denied the right to counsel with his mother, Banks took the deal.

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            25 days ago

            exactly. people keep talking about epstein classes and then say things i’ll paraphrase as “i’m glad #metoo’s over”. it seems people only want to guillotine privileged rapists when it’s a shortcut to end an argument

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        24 days ago

        And I don’t support all this “anti murder” and whatever, it’s way too easy to falsely accuse someone.

        You are disgusting piece of crap.

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    23 days ago

    Upvoted on the title but after reading the comments it seems like this is a decade old story being used for narrative purposes. So i changed it to a down vote.

    Now if only incels could learn to change and grow and correct mistakes maybe they wouldn’t be incels anymore.

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      23 days ago

      These one in a thousand stories when the other 999 were legitimate are always used like this to help vindicate the narrative that women make it up

      The problem is those thousand cases represent a fraction of the around one hundred thousand victims that will never get justice.

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    16 days ago

    When something like this happens the accuser needs to go to jail for the same length of time the accused has spent there.

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    24 days ago

    From experience, most people in education but I know it happens way more often than people know. This is why you don’t see many male teachers outside of shop classes or drafting, which most schools don’t have anymore. I gave up on teaching because all the bad eggs made you walk on eggshells in a minefield.

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      And on the other hand, there have been at least 3 scandals that broke in my local area alone about male teachers who were inappropriate with students being quietly moved to different school districts with huge settlement payments. And no justice for the victims.

      We need to dismantle our rape culture for both types of victims.

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        Yeah I agree. I would say I hated working in high school. I was only like maybe seven or so years older than the students but looked just like the students–sigh at least I had a staff badge. I would often get the puppy dog eyes from female students and I thought don’t think what you’re thinking please.

        In my time in high school there were cases of either-or, and nothing was done about it.

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    24 days ago

    it’s shit like this that makes me raise an eyebrow at the term “rape survivor.” I don’t like that is the case; Has real “boy who cried wolf” energy.

    KEEP READING BEFORE YOU POST A REBUTTAL

    on one side you have someone who is forced to do something against their will for a relatively short time. (which is bad, no argument)

    but on the other you have someone who can actually have their life destroyed by the mere accusation of the former.

    Seems to me that if you are going to destroy someone you better make damn sure that they are the the perpetrator of such actions, because the punishment is far worse than the crime. (Though justifiably so, in this case)

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      Being raped (can) cause life long severe mental trauma and PTSD in victims, implying that it’s just a 10 minute bad time that is then just over is utterly fucking disgusting and demeaning towards survivors, you are terrible fucking person for believing that and should feel fucking ashamed of yourself.

      If someone like you is even capable of feeling shame

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        23 days ago

        is someone like you capable of reading comprehension, or do you just spout outrage after reading half a sentence?

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          You literally used the fact that rape only lasts a short time to downplay it’s effects on victims, you’re a disgusting piece of crap and a genuinely terrible fucking person.

          And judging by the vote totals, most people agree with me on that.

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            22 days ago

            And then you’ll bust out of here and make jokes about how guys don’t last in bed. I may be disgusting but you’re a hypocrite. Enjoy your block.

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              I AM a guy, genius, and what the everloving fuck does that have to do with literally anything and how the fuck would it be a hypocrite ? Believing Knowing that rape is a horrific crime with potentially life long traumatic consequences, regardless of how long or short it lasts, and making fun of guys for cuming quickly, even that were a thing I did, which it isn’t, wouldn’t be hypocritical. Those two things have nothing to do with each other

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      23 days ago

      Injustice is bad. Falsely imprisoning someone is bad. But also, not holding a rapist to account is bad. And the latter happens 1-2 orders of magnitude more frequently than the former.

      This is the same bad-faith edge case fixation that anti-trans people spout about “trans girls in sports”, ignoring the fact that said people would almost certainly never be caught dead watching professional women’s sports teams. It’s a comparatively rare issue, in the context of the original issue being discussed.

      Also, the fact that you appear to be trying to litigate how bad a person should feel about rape because it typically takes “a relatively short time” is disgusting and infuriating in equal measure, and tells me a lot about who you are as a person.

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        23 days ago

        False accusations are incredibly common. Everyone is on edge because of the cornell case where it’s clear there was premeditation. THAT was disgusting. Using your gender as defense “because you were scared” is also EQUALLY disgusting. Grow up; the world isn’t sunshine and rainbows buttercup. what is TRUE isn’t always pleasant, and maturity is learning how to face that.

        If you want to have justified out rage perhaps you should direct that at how the top 1% are raping us harder than any frat boy could to some naive freshman coed.