I read an article in "People" and on the internet this past week about a Nebraska Judge, Jeffre Cheuvront, banned the words "rape", "victim" "assalient" or "assualt" from being used in this case. The case is about a woman who states that she woke up to a man she didnt know on top of her. The prosecution has been banned from using these words in the case because the judge says that it will bias the jury. When the prosecution asked to ban words like "sex" and "intercourse" the judge declined saying that there would be no more words to describe what happend that night. In his first trial, Pamir Safi, had a hung jury, 7-5. There are 2 other women who say that the same thing happend to them.
Now for a second lets just imagine that the Judge wasnt a bias jerk, what message is he sending to the victim? That even though there has been a rape kit, a charge and a previous trial this man is potentially going to get off. Why cant these words be used? How else would you describe a sexual act that was unwanted? Does he not see that by having to refer to this act as sex and not rape you are only taking away from the seriousness of this accusation. He says it was consensual, as it was the night before. However i dont believe that when she woke up, she had consented before going to bed. The message that this sends to women who have been raped in Nebraska, dont even bother going to trial because you cant give an actual account of the event. You are denying th emotions and feelings that the victim had during the time of the assault.
I hope that this doesnt become a trend, barring words from trials to describe an inncident. I hope that this women asks for a different judge or even a different district so that she can get a fair child. I think it is just appalling that the Judge is banning these words, almost taking out all the emotion of the case, all the volguar language to describe this volguar attack.
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Do you know what the facts from the case even were? Or did you just hear that the words were banned. Your comments infuriate me. So just because she woke up next to the man means that she was raped. When she said stop did he not stop. It was here fault for making such bad decisions. She should have known her limits. Or not have left with the man. The witnesses did not say she left unwillingly. She should not have left with the man in the first place. He might have been dunk out of his mind as well. She could have suggested the sex and not him. But she cannot remember. What is his story?
Here is a reasonable story.
Well this girl really came on to me. She suggested we go back to her house and get it on. She was crazy for me. Then she rolled over and saw her boyfriend’s picture who is away in Iraq fighting for the US. She then became sick and asked me to stop and to leave so I left. I guess that hoe feels bad for herself and just wants to file rape charges to get me in trouble so she has something to tell her boy when he gets home. I didn’t know she even had a boyfriend until she showed me the picture. I felt ashamed for her and myself. I hope that hoe gets dumped for cheating.
There you see how the story changes from rape to a lonely women looking to have sex. She could have easily raped him. It was her word against his. When she said stop he stopped and that’s that.
Thus should not be rape. Unless there was more to the story like if he slipped her a pill which he did not. She went willingly and just stated she couldn’t remember to save her the embarrassment.
She should have not put herself in the situation in the first place and that’s the truth.
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