Guilty until proven innocent
March 03rd, 2010 by Vader
Seems to be the rule with sex offenses.
I have no brief for sexual criminals. I have loved ones who were victims of sexual abuse.
But the way California’s sex offender registry is run simply invites a different kind of abuse.
The more vile the crime, the greater the need to protect the rights of those accused of it until the state proves their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury.
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Filed under: We transcend your bourgeois categories | Tags: abuse of process, child abuse, presumption of guilt
Filed under: We transcend your bourgeois categories | Tags: abuse of process, child abuse, presumption of guilt
March 03rd, 2010 12:47:13
Zen
March 3, 2010
This is a highly understated problem. The FBI put the precentage of unfounded accusations at 15%, while the actual rate of false rape claims are certainly much higher. But we are too paralyzed by politically correctness (as a nation) to look at this in an unbiased way. The problem is, women are rarely punished for false accusations, and even rarer, are they punished equally. The lady in the Duke rape case is still called a victim, for instance.
Take a look at The False Rape Society
http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/