Movingforward10
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Hard to understand isn't it? The value people place on victims (i.e. none?)? The value people place on money/power? Breakdown in being human? Selfishness/selfgain?I wonder why this is so.
Idk.
When it takes many years for people to admit to themselves what happened, it's going to take many years to report that crime.I’m on the fence with very historical crimes. Whilst the false allegation rate is low it isn’t non existent. I can’t remember what I was doing on a non descript tuesday 20 years ago. Someone who was genuinely innocent and would have been easily cleared at the time can be in doubt years on just due to time passing and memory.
At the moment, rapists know they can rape and walk free. Even in the UK where historical crimes can be prosecuted.
My head teacher was convicted of child rape 40 years after it happened. He made the poor man go through a trial. He then appealed that guilty verdict. And won, as he was found guilty of a crime that wasn't in legislation at the time of the offence, so he won on a technicality. So there was a re-trial. Only on day one of the retrial did he admit his guilt. He put that poor man through all of that. When he knew he was guilty.
So, I am all for prosecuting historical crimes.
Yep.But this, this makes me really f*cking angry. Because often other adults around do know.
Just look at Trump. Not only is he now a convict, but it was proven in a civil court that he sexually assaulted someone. And yet: the republicans put him forward. Because who gives a shit.