Keep it shut. The law is blind, and sometimes in that blindness, wrongs do not get righted. This case is one such case.
Rapists are impossible to rehabilitate, and they are usually sociopathic. Which means they are likely to commit a crime along those lines again. Psychologically normal people don't rape.
I'll admit I'm not totally comfortable with that decision. But nor am I comfortable with a rapist going free. I am less so with the latter.
Keep it shut. The law is blind, and sometimes in that blindness, wrongs do not get righted. This case is one such case.
Rapists are impossible to rehabilitate, and they are usually sociopathic. Which means they are likely to commit a crime along those lines again. Psychologically normal people don't rape.
I'll admit I'm not totally comfortable with that decision. But nor am I comfortable with a rapist going free. I am less so with the latter.
Not sure about the rehabilitation thing.
A significant proportion of rapists commit their crimes while under the influence. I'd say there's a good shot at rehabilitating those.
This may depend on what sort of rape you're talking about. Rape laws carry well into the gray area. For some kinds of date rape, that may be true. But even so, there is pretty much always something psychologically abnormal about a rapist. The same could be true of someone who gets violent under the influence. It is not a normal reaction, and alcohol/drugs are not an excuse. The exception may be extreme amphetamine abuse, which can cause psychosis.
But the profile for someone who rapes a pubescent girl is that they are typically very well-planned, manipulative, and sociopathic. That is similar to the profile for the majority of rapists, but finding access to a girl that young as an adult almost requires it.
How would someone know for a fact that someone raped their child other than their child's word?More precisely, the law is bulls**t. You're as likely to get justice from a court as you would getting heads from a coin toss. If the person knew for a FACT that this person raped their child, I'd let him burn.
I would talk. Letting the murderer get away is not something I could take.
I would still keep it shut, because they may have a hard time finding the real murder. He raped my daughter, so of selfish reasons I rather want to see him behind bars. Also, it is easier to keep shut than to lie.I would talk. Letting the murderer get away is not something I could take.
I would still keep it shut, because they may have a hard time finding the real murder. He raped my daughter, so of selfish reasons I rather want to see him behind bars. Also, it is easier to keep shut than to lie.
Here's a moral dilemma. The unthinkable happens -- some awful person rapes your 13 year-old daughter. Unfortunately, it's not possible to convict him, so you move away and try to put your life back together. A couple years later, you're at a restaurant when your favorite show comes on TV. At the same time, you notice the rapist sitting at another table looking not very happy. You choose not to confront him and try to just watch your show instead.
A few days later, you learn that the rapist has been arrested for murder and that there's a good case against him. You are delighted at the thought that he'll likely go to prison. However, you learn that the time of the murders coincide with the time you saw the rapist in the restaurant. You're sure of the time because of the favorite TV show that was on. There's no way he could be the murderer. Perhaps he hired someone to do it, but you don't know that for a fact.
If you come forward and tell the truth, the rapist won't be wrongfully convicted of murder. If you keep your mouth shut, he'll likely go to prison. What do you do?
You don't know he raped your daughter, but you do know he didn't commit the murder. Letting a person be put behind bars for a crime they didn't commit is just as bad, if not worse then letting a bad guy get away. The real murderer should be caught, not have you fulfill some revenge fantasy.
Remaining silent in this situation is as digusting and grotesque of a crime as the child rape.
How can you equate not providing evidence with child rape?! That is just disgusting!
Easy....you are sitting back doing nothing and letting an innocent person get convicted. That is just as disgusting of an act as the person who rapes a child.
Easy....you are sitting back doing nothing and letting an innocent person get convicted. That is just as disgusting of an act as the person who rapes a child.
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