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| Girl "not helpless enough" for rape judgement |
| 2005-09-28 |
| A Swedish court of appeal has found two men not guilty of raping a 15 year old girl, arguing that despite the fact that she was on the run, had not had hardly eaten any food or had any sleep and had been drinking alcohol, she was not in a "helpless state". The prosecutor, Anne-Marie Nyholm, had appealed against an earlier judgement by the Handen district court, which had freed the two men but found one man guilty of raping the girl in Jordbro, south of Stockholm. The prosecutor maintained that the girl was in a helpless state when the men had sex with her, and that the men must have realised that. Several days before the incident, the girl had absconded from a treatment centre without any money, and had had little food or sleep since then. A friend had left her, with nowhere else to go she had gone to the three men's apartment. There she was offered alcohol. But while the Svea Court of Appeal agreed on Monday that the girl had found herself in a very unpleasant and dangerous situation, it said that according to the rule of law she was not helpless. [...] |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #2 Sounds like the Swedes got the message yesterday from al-Q and have started implementation of sharia. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-09-28 21:03 |
| #1 Wow. Don't show them this article at Lake Havasu during the next Spring Break. Whatta ya want, standards or sompin"? |
| Posted by: ArmChair in Sin 2005-09-28 20:58 |