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Students cleared of gang rape because the woman "had previously enjoyed a threesome" - wtaf?

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Quatrefoil · 12/04/2016 13:20

Just read this in the paper copy of The Times and can't find an online article that mentions her previous threesome, so here is an extract:

"Four students have been acquitted of raping a woman at a May ball after evidence emerged that their alleged victim had previously enjoyed a threesome with two military policemen ... The evidence was found on a mobile phone owned by the woman who claimed she was raped at the Royal Agricultural University annual ball in 2014."

Here is a link to The Guardian's article (doesn't mention the "threesome":

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/four-men-cleared-of-raping-woman-at-university-ball

If what The Times has reported is the real reason for this trial being thrown out, I am truly shocked. What the hell have her previous sexual choices got to do with what happened that night?

Is this really how things go in rape trials even in this day and age? Victims being investigated and tried, and labeled as easy or up for it every single time she's propositioned just because she has consented to sex before?

PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 13/04/2016 12:58

There's never a bad time to link to We Believe you

PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 13/04/2016 15:48

You're right, of course there is a bad time.
To clarify, I posted the link following deleting a post that referred to "mendacious women" -because the idea that lots of women routinely lie was a myth we challenged within the campaign.

Apologies if it came across that HQ have taken any kind of stance on this case - we are not.

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