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Less than 6% of rapes reported in England lead to convictions — and that's out of as few as 10% of rapes that are reported in the first place. I'm no mathematician, but the good people at the Washington Post have underscore the fact that those statistics are deplorable. The well-researched article by the Post's Mary Jordan is bookended by the tale of a 15-year-old London teen who was raped by a 28-year-old neighbor. Her mother immediately called the police, and yet it took several months for the police to question the rapist. The man was eventually set free, although he had a previous criminal record; the judge in the case said, he was "in a way a man of good character" because his prior convictions were non-violent. This is clearly not an isolated event, as a 2005 report commissioned by UK police described a "culture of skepticism" surrounding rape cases. And the horrors don't end there! More »
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Former Tory Minister of Parliament John Redwood has much of Britain up in arms this week over comments he made about date rape. In a blog post published last Friday, the politician, a crony of Conservative party leader David Cameron, slammed the opposing Labour Party for its "doctrine of equivalence", which treats stranger rape and acquaintance rape in the same fashion. "None of us want men to rape women," Redwood, (shown golfing above), writes, "but there is a difference between a man using unreasonable force to assault a woman on the street, and a disagreement between two lovers over whether there was consent on one particular occasion when the two were spending an evening or night together." More »
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