Thursday, December 5, 2013

Is it Better to Report a Rape or Remain Silent?

By Shirli Kieffer


According to Bea Davison (a, here, unnamed woman) had, "immediately gone to the Police and reported her incident and she knew the man’s name, where he lived… and that he was married. She told me how they took her to the hospital to do a, 'rape kit,' and examination, including stripping her down to her bare skin, probing her violations, and photographing every part of her body. Then she had to meet with a psychologist who interviewed her.  She intimated that she felt that many of the questions she had to answer were insulting, if not downright assaultive.
"Then there were the filing of the charges and being assigned a public defender… and somehow in the midst of it all, she had lost her job.  It was no small coincidence that the man who raped her was also a local businessman, who was friends with her boss.
"To make things worse, there were accusations of her being a prostitute.  
"She had met him at a party where there was alcohol and illicit drugs.  She was accused of drinking (which she admitted to) and taking the illegal drugs (which she denies partaking of).  Either way, she was accused of promoting the overt sexual tension because she was wearing a little black dress and high-heeled shoes. While, of course, the rapist was not drinking or taking drugs because he was an upstanding family man in a business suit, who testified that it was she who seduced him."
His explicit account of the story indicated that she was the agressor while maintaining that he was the victim.

Davison said, "Even though he said that she never asked him to pay her for the sex, he said that the whole rape accusation must have come about due to an unsatisfied customer who refused to pay her later that evening, and she decided to go after the only person in the room that she might have made a handsome profit off of. An old prostitute’s blackmail trick from the annals of the oldest profession. She was accused of trying to frame him by filing charges, because the rest of the men there were, 'losers,' and everyone knows you can’t get blood out of a turnip.

"She said that her public defender told her, 'If we go forward with this, there is a chance that both his story and your story might make it to the media outlets… You have to decide if you want to be reading these statements about yourself in the headlines.'

"Not wanting to be the subject of public ridicule she decided to walk away…"

What would you do?

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