14-YO girl faces stat rape charges and gets private attorney's help pro-bono

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2008-06-27 14:37

Story here. The kicker is that she claims she was raped forcibly by the 13-year-old and now has a private attorney (as opposed to a public defender) representing her gratis. Excerpt:

'Then the girl says two friends left the room, leaving her alone with the boy who she says had been her friend up until then. She says he forced himself on her. The girl says she told her school counselor about it a month later.

"I wanted help because it was my first time and I was scared," she says.

The counselor went to police and before long this girl who was 14 at the time, was being charged with raping the boy who was a few months younger and still 13 years old. Kansas law says sex with anyone under 14, even if it's consensual, is rape. Deciding to actually prosecute a child in this situation is another matter.'

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Did anyone else catch that? She said it was "her first time" and was scared, so she went to see a counselor. Well, this is just one comment and of course taken out of context. But if I were going to have to go on that, it sounds more like she and the boy had consensual sex, then she got nervous about it and went to see a counselor. The counselor then told her she should not have done that since he was younger than her and now she could face criminal charges. A 14 and 13-YO have sex and one of them is charged with stat rape? This law is utterly nonsensical. So, she realizes (or maybe she got that advice from someone else) that her only way out of the charge is to claim he raped her forcibly.

All speculation. But perhaps the most important distinction between MRAs and feminists is that MRAs acknowledge how screwed up people's assumptions are about men and boys and see how any conflict of interest or difference in impression about how things go between men and women is uniformly interpreted in favor of the female, and that that is not acceptable; all reasonable scenarios and possibilities should be vetted in the name of fairness and, dare we suggest it, presumption of innocence, on behalf of both parties. Contrast that with the typical feminist who tends to believe with little or no analysis the female's story, and also defends her "right" to make whatever accusations, regardless of how untenable or vapid they may be, and not just to have those accusations taken seriously but also believed regardless of evidence to the contrary.

And some people wonder why MRAs seem so unhappy with the current state of things.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2008-06-28 01:59