I saw posts mentioning thatt Greta Thunberg, through a discussion on Twitter, got some abusive moron arrested in Romania. The guy got obnoxious in his reply and danced around smoking in a bathrobe or something. The police in Romania saw a pizza box in the "Twitter Callback"? and were able to find the hotel room and arrest the guy. From the short posts I thought the moron was a singer I had never hear of, someone like Justin Beiber or Hatsune Miku, just a name. It was lucky not to waste time searching for the name Andrew Tate, because later on Mastodon someone introduced a blog post that put the whole thing in context and made the time and attention worth spending...
Let’s ask the CPS instead. After all, they’re the ones who heard Andrew Tate saying “I fucking loved how much you hated it. It turned me on.” and concluded there was too much doubt to take the case any further. One of Tate’s victims was told by the police that:
“in sexual assault cases, the CPS was only prepared to prosecute when it felt 100 percent confident of success, because a trial resulting in acquittal would only further traumatise the complainant.”
So just to be clear, you’ll get your prosecution… if and only if you’ve done the police and prosecutors’ work for them and guaranteed there’s a 100% chance that a jury will conclude your rapist is guilty. Perhaps that’s what a girl’s gotta do. But I’m not sure what exactly might guarantee a conviction if ‘rapist literally confesses to your rape in a voice note’ is not already good enough.--- Girl On The NetI’ll ask again: what’s a girl gotta do to get a rape conviction around here? You’d think, in a society that gives a shit about our safety, reporting would be enough. You report the person who harmed you, and then the justice system works to… you know… get justice. Accountability. At the absolute least to keep dangerous men from positions of power rather than giving them a fucking warrant card.
I hate that survivors who stand up to disgusting men are so often disbelieved when by rights they should be honoured: awarded medals for the valour of making it through even that initial report. I hate that these stories are so common. I hate that no amount of them will make any difference to the pricks who think they’re clever when they ask ‘why this witch hunt/trial by Twitter? Innocent until proven guilty! Why didn’t she just report it??’Some guys should be held down while everyone shuts their eyes and lets the victim and their mother decide what to do.
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