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A rapist's "apology"

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InmaculadaConcepcion · 30/04/2011 10:30

Here

He thought writing a letter to say sorry and to offer to make it up to his victim would salve his guilty conscious.

Ultimately he got convicted of sexually assaulting his victim. But the punishment meted out was laughable.

The description of the various things that happened made me seethe.

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KvetaBarry · 30/04/2011 21:32

that's horrific. it makes me so bloody angry to read it, just disgusting. Agree with Stripey - hope the uni can explain their lies.

brave woman though.

stripeywoollenhat · 30/04/2011 20:51

i do hope that the rest of her story involves an action against the university for their defence - through deception - of the rapist male students.

onepieceofcremeegg · 30/04/2011 20:38

Yes the "ungentlemanly" comment really made me seethe too.

As did the report that in court he stared at her for 2 hours. The judge had to tell his lawyer that he could not look at her. Angry

EllieG · 30/04/2011 20:36

That's a horrific account. I agree, it sounds like contacting her was part of his fantasy. And he only got 6 months - what a horrible insult to victims. Disgusting.

AyeRobot · 30/04/2011 18:17

Horrific. Poor woman.

Bet he didn't run that amend by his sponsor... I wonder if he even considered an amend that meant handing himself in AND alerting the authorities when he was released early. Course not, because that wasn't what it was about.

Hopefully the publicity will mean that other women he has raped will come forward because there is not a cat in hell's chance that she has been the only one.

HecateQueenOfTheNight · 30/04/2011 17:38

My god. six months.

I think he got in touch with her to relive it. I wouldn't mind betting that he was getting some sort of sexual thrill from it.

It's bloody disgusting, the lack of any real punishment for rape. It's like the system says well, I suppose we'd better be seen to do a little something, shut the women up a bit. But they don't care to actually punish.

I mean, ffs, you can get longer for stealing from a supermarket than for brutally violating a woman.

If anyone ever doubted how little women are worth...

dittany · 30/04/2011 17:29

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InmaculadaConcepcion · 30/04/2011 12:12

Yep, SB, that's what I meant: "low-hanging fruit" covers it well.

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SueSylvesterforPM · 30/04/2011 11:41

I was looking for the actual letter

sadly the pathetic sentence does not shock me

SybilBeddows · 30/04/2011 10:54

the police did their bit because the letters of apology will have made him a low-hanging fruit, I presume; a relatively easy rape case to get a conviction for. It doesn't necessarily mean that they now always deal well with rape cases.

shocking that someone can be sentenced to 10 years and then only serve 6 months of that.

the fact that she had been lied to about the frat house not being under police jurisdiction is appalling.

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InmaculadaConcepcion · 30/04/2011 10:44

I agree. It seems like the police did their bit, which is something. I suppose the rapist's confessional letters and emails cleared away any ambiguities from their point of view.

And the rapist's lawyers' description of his conduct as "ungentlemanly". Jeez.

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TheCrackFox · 30/04/2011 10:43

He only served 6 months!!

psychoveggie · 30/04/2011 10:40

I just read that too, was heartened by the response of the police 20 years down the line, but the sentencing and imprisonment (and "human error" putting him down as non-violent) was terrible. I wonder if he had been black what his sentence would have been? I know that's blunt but it does seem unusual in leniency.