A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of a man accused of sneaking into an 18-year-old woman’s bedroom and having sex with her while pretending to be her boyfriend. The decision turned on a crucial fact: she wasn’t married.
In the unanimous decision, the court cited an 1872 law that says a suspect is only guilty of rape if the victim is married and the attacker is pretending to be the spouse.
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This is ABOMINABLE. Absolutely unbelievable. Shakes head in anger and disbelief.
This isn’t the only archaic law. Every state of the union has them.One is that you can beat your wife as long as you use nothing thicker than your thumb and it should be for disciplinary purposes.
And we have the gall to call tribal peoples barbarians and savages?
There is a saying in Britain “the law is an ass”, (a donkey), which appears to be the case here.
LOL. That is good. I have been thinking derelict of duty.
I had watched the news reporting on this. Craziness.