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Old 10-16-2003, 11:32 PM   #8
Cerek the Barbaric
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Join Date: October 29, 2001
Location: North Carolina
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While not nearly as dramatic as Timber's story, I know of an example that happened here in my hometown a few years back. A guy younger than myself actually spent time in jail due to a fabricated rape charge.

He was the son of a somewhat prominent local businessman and he got a little wild in high school. He experimented with some minor drugs and alcohol, but nothing hardcore - so far as I know. Still, it was known that he and his friends liked to party. One night, a buddy tells him he knows a girl that is will to do both of them. Being the young, virile teenager he was, he thought "Cool, why not?". They get together and have their party. A few days later, the police come knocking on his door and arrest him for rape. It goes to trial and his "wild habits" are brought out. It also doesn't help that the girl was underrage (15 IIRC). He is found guilty and is sent away to do his time. Fortunately for him, his lawyer keeps digging back at home. Lo and behold, he discovers that this SAME girl pulled the exact SAME stunt in the next county over just a year earlier and had another guy convicted of rape. So he is finally released from jail, but still had to serve a few more years probation for having sex with a minor.

The point of the story - and of Timber's rant in general - is that a promiscous past certainly does not pardon the act of forcible rape...however, it is a very relevant factor in determining whether the act truly was forcible as opposed to consensual.
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