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    Man walks past woman, is prosecuted for rape

    Now this is a pretty unbelievable story. Man brushes past a woman with a newspaper in a train station, gets prosecuted for rape for a year before being found not guilty.

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/...assault-charge
    'Year of hell' in a split-second



    A man brushes past a woman, their shoulders colliding briefly. It ruins his life.

    A walk through one of the busiest train stations in the UK changed Mark Pearson's life forever.

    It took him just half a second to pass an award-winning actress in her 60s but that was enough for prosecutors to charge with him sexual assault.

    When the case finally got to court, a jury needed only 90 minutes to reject the allegations, but by then the damage had been done to Pearson, a 51-year-old artist and picture framer.

    It was claimed he assaulted the TV, theatre and radio actress penetratively for "two or three seconds" as he walked past her at London's Waterloo station, before landing a heavy blow to her left shoulder as he pushed past her, The Telegraph reported.

    CCTV footage could not establish if Pearson and the woman, who can not be named for legal reasons, made physical contact as they walked quickly past each other. A forensic expert for the defence told Blackfriars Crown Court Pearson had passed the actress in half a second, saying any assault was a logistical impossibility.

    Specialist CCTV forensic expert Jacob Blythe showed Pearson was carrying a newspaper in his left hand - the one he was alleged to have used in the assault​ - and holding his bag in his right.

    The Telegraph said the case raised more questions about the decision-making in sexual assault cases by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), in particular pressing ahead with improperly investigated prosecutions with gaping holes in the evidence.

    In Pearson's case, the woman failed to pick him out of an identity parade, there was no forensic evidence, and there were no witnesses despite the train station being crowded with commuters.

    The actress was wearing a coat and jacket and a thin dress over "training pants" following a yoga class.
    So, are feminists sane or insane? Should I attend a meeting of the gender studies club at our university to observe them myself, or do you think they will go bonkers, shame me publicly, file a police complaint against me and ruin my career?


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    Clearly the woman is out of her mind. Bit of a stretch to blame feminism tho.
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    Good thing British police did a thorough inspection here. Though I assume if they had said there was no evidence of it they would be sued or something.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ramjb View Post
    Now this is a pretty unbelievable story.
    Not really. Feminists do this shit all the time.
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    How did this even get to court? Did no one during that year-long process of getting to court watch the surveillance tape?

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    Teach men not to rape


    She should get a long sentence for this
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    Quote Originally Posted by Revi View Post
    How did this even get to court? Did no one during that year-long process of getting to court watch the surveillance tape?
    Because men are always guilty. Even when they're innocent.
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    Did he look at her too? Because staring at a woman is rape too. Just saying.

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    Really? Source?

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    Not really. Feminists do this shit all the time.
    In a world of deceit, open your eyes.

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    Bit of a stretch to blame feminism tho.
    Not at all. Yell a lie for years ( '' Women are oppressed!! We need more rights!! '' ) even when reality is opposite and people will eventually believe you.

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    Crazy woman makes absurd claim, courts find her crazy and absolutely full of shit, guy walks free. How is the guys life "ruined"? He's not some high ranking official or celebrity, his life will go on like normal and he'll have a crazy story to tell. Nobody will recognize the guy after a week or two.

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    Why are we blaming feminists for this?
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    I wish police would stop taking claims like this seriously.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rukh View Post
    Why are we blaming feminists for this?
    Because I want advice on this:
    Quote Originally Posted by ramjb View Post
    So, are feminists sane or insane? Should I attend a meeting of the gender studies club at our university to observe them myself, or do you think they will go bonkers, shame me publicly, file a police complaint against me and ruin my career?
    I'm about to finish my studies (in an unrelated subject) and with all the news that we keep hearing, I thought I'd have a gander. Is this stuff actually real or made up by the media?

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    Really? Source?
    You're not able to comprehend that lots of feminists deny the reality of false rape accusations? That's pretty sad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LiiLoSNK View Post
    You're not able to comprehend that lots of feminists deny the reality of false rape accusations? That's pretty sad.
    Lots of tumblr feminists* that in no way represent the real world. Many of which are underaged dumb kids that don't think for themselves. Try again.

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    The woman could not be named for legal reasons.

    Fuck you society. Name this woman. Name and shame her and ruin her life. Useless cunt.

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    Any claim of sexual assualt should be taken seriously. They should probably investigate absurd cases like this better before wasting money taking them to court

    Then again it is the met, so the more time they spend persuing pointless cases the less time they have to take bribes, kill newspaper vendors and harras black people the better.

    Not sure how this equates to feminism unless of course you are an idiot.

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    Why would I try again when you just openly admitted to me being right?

    I don't have a problem with the first and second wave feminists who just wanted to vote and get paid equally, but a large amount of the current feminists are bat shit insane and push idiotic issues that try to make women "more equal" than men.

    So unless you want to agree with me again, maybe you should try again, kiddo.
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