Sex on Trial

[purpleme12]

Anyone watching this?

I've just watched it.

I'm a bit late but have watched it now. Surprised there's not more discussion of it on here.

That police chap got very twitchy when asked why he didn't interview the accused men, didn't he? And why on EARTH was he allowed not to? Is there no boss reviewing the case, going 'Um, Detective, looks like something's slipped your mind...'?

And taking the woman into another room away from her parents and shutting the door

I just actually could not get my head around the fact that he didn't interview the boys. I don't understand. It all seems very different to the police here

Yeah, is it even legal not to interview them? (here and/or in the US).

I presume it must be legal? All very odd to say the least

I guess so. It was interesting that they decided to drop out of college straight after the allegations. I wonder if that college has one of those sexual assault boards (I don't know the proper name for them) –you know, the ones in the Louis Theroux film about this subject. The threshold of proof for those is much lower than in a court of law.

Mmm yes that's true

This is really disturbing watching

His smarmy smiling face is making me feel sick.

One of them seemed to be smiling throughout the whole thing

Does America have a bigger problem and attitude towards rape than here?

Well if nothing else, what I would take away from this is (a) if you are a victim of rape (or your daughter is) then make sure you are never interviewed without a lawyer present and (b) don't believe the police when they say they have video evidence.

Can't believe he didn't interview the boys and that victim statement at the end was sickening - I'm afraid I just didn't believe him - and now, after she has spent 6 months in prison, they are suing her to add insult to injury.

don't believe the police when they say they have video evidence.

That was shocking, wasn't it? I can kind of believe that the complainant believed them – she was young, quite sheltered and (by that point) beaten down. I just wish her parents had insisted on being present –surely one or both of them would have questioned this really quite convenient presence of video evidence?

All of the investigations so far seemed very different to here (in the programmes I've watched about here anyway)

I'm surprised that there hasn't been more on here about this series. The behaviour of the policeman in the first programme really was really shocking beyond belief. That the victim was then prosecuted herself was one of the most disturbing things I've seen on TV for a while.

Anyway, just a reminder that the last programme in the series is on tonight.

Thanks for the reminder Cecily - I agree with what you said about the first programme. That young woman's face when the guy was giving his victim statement before she was sent to prison will haunt me.

It was all very odd re not interviewing the two men & leading the daughter on her own to a room away from her parents to interview her. That seems a big red flag to me & I think the parents were rather remiss here: the US is a famously more litigious nation, they should have had the savvy to say no or at least call her lawyer for advice. He obviously didn't want a witness or any transparency. All very shady. The Louis Theroux one was even more disturbing to me. Rape on campus & it being shoved under the carpet shouldn't be something you have to worry about. That along with the 'hazing' deaths shows something rotten at the core in their higher education system.