spsyk said:
So, what would be the consequences for the plaintiff or victim, if Jordan Johnson is found not guilty, of the allege crime, is there jail time involved or fine as there is for the defendant, for the plaintiff or accuser.
The only reason why I ask is, because, when the plaintiff, " is not sure if she was raped or not " "while enduring the alleged rape, with two individuals within vocal reached, never reached," " and then providing a ride home after being assaulted".
Unfortunately, this identifies the key contradictions in rape cases.
1) Victims get anonymity. The purpose? Obviously to encourage reporting of rapes. The downside? False rapes get reported.
2) False rapes are not punished. The purpose? So as to not discourage the reporting of real rapes. Is that a viable social and legal policy? Well, that surely can be argued. Does it encourage the reporting of false rapes for vindictive, punitive or manipulative purposes? Undoubtedly that occurs. Brian Banks. The Duke LaCrosse boys.
In this case, you have what appears to be something of a classic abused person with acknowledged psychological problems and who may have a history of similar claims, and possibly similar false claims. As often happens with abused persons, they grow up to be abusers.
With men, that tends to show as direct physical aggression, but also as sociopathic behaviors, manipulation, control, exploitation. In rape counseling, these symptoms are strongly emphasized to women (and men), because they are key indicators of an abusive personality.
With women, statistically, they resort to violence as much or more as men in such circumstances, although much more frequently with weapons such as knives or guns. However, direct physical violence is thought to be significantly underreported in these cases because men are less likely to be damaged in a direct physical assault and are far less likely to report it if they are. However, the other key elements seen in sociopathic and abused men -- manipulation, control, exploitation -- are seen in sociopathic and abused women, but with women, manipulation, control and exploitation can utilize the legal system directly to enable those means of abuse because of social policy to encourage them to do so by a general refusal to punish false rape claims.
The key difference is otherwise identical characteristics of abused and psychologically damaged personalities between men and women is that men will be physically abusive and rape, women will be psychologically abusive and report false rapes.
The legal system creates, then, this huge gender discrimination wherein male abusers are punished, and female abusers are in many ways encouraged and enabled because the system protects, "encourages" and supports them in the name of protecting
other women from genuine abuse. So genuine victims are a sort of hostage to those abusive and sociopathic women who literally use that system to perpetuate their own cycle of violence and abuse. Sociopathic men, in contrast, have no such presumptions operating in their favor.
This case has significant factual elements acknowledged in Jane Doe's admitted history to suggest that these issues may be present in this case.
