I know all this, but as a father of two daughters, and knowing a couple of women who have been raped
I am aware (as much as a man can be) of the long term devastation rape causes. In this case I don't think he could be successfully prosecuted. I also know there are cases where there are false accusations. (That said, I don't think the false accusations are really all that common because of the trial women who make these allocations are exposed to.)

Rape is a horrible violent crime/action that should be punished as vigorously as possible. We need to make sure it really happened but we also need to make sure that when a woman (or man for that matter) says no, then she has to be listened to.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 18 May 2009, 17:55, Reply)