Women in jeans ‘cannot be raped’
This ‘news’ article irked me… how silly!
Italy’s highest court has ruled that a woman wearing jeans cannot be raped.
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Rome on Wednesday overturned a rape conviction, saying that the supposed victim must have agreed to sex because her jeans could not have been removed without her consent.
A court in the southern town of Potenza had convicted a driving instructor of raping his 18-year-old pupil.
The instructor, aged 45 and identified only as Carmine, had been sentenced to 34 months’ jail.
His defence had argued that the young woman - identified as Rosa - had consented to sex, a version of events which the woman strongly denied.
The Supreme Court ruled that it was impossible to remove a pair of jeans “without the collaboration of the person wearing them”, and that the young woman must therefore have consented to sex.
In a judgement likely to anger women’s rights organizations, the rape conviction was reversed.
Driving instructors in Italy have a reputation, deserved or undeserved, for molesting young female pupils, and the case appeared at first to be a familiar story of sexual assault on a lonely country road.
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March 10th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Like the story where a 3 year old girl was said to be promiscuous. She led on her Uncle (or male family friend whatever he was) to molest her. The poor man just couldn’t resist the evil wickedly alluring 3 year old baby.
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
What this sounds like to me is that she wears such tight jeans that it would have been impossible for him to take them off her and still keep her standing still. I mean, I know some girls who wear their jeans so tight if you forcefully removed them with a little bit of speed, they might be bleeding.
Okay, so I’m exaggerating, but give the guy a chance too. I mean, some women would take advantage of this situation, just as some men might rape a girl, no?