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#WeCantConsentToThis | En Reino Unido, mujeres y adolescentes han sido asesinadas por sus parejas y los tribunales los han dejado en libertad bajo la justificación de que si las torturaron y asesinaron fue porque ellas lo consintieron.

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En Reino Unido, han lanzado una campaña llamada #WeCantConsentToThis, una respuesta contra el creciente aumento de asesinatos violentos contra mujeres y niñas británicas cometidos por hombres mientras practicaban “sexo rudo” con ellas.
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De acuerdo con el sitio oficial de la campaña, alrededor de 60 mujeres han sido asesinadas de esta manera. En los últimos 5 años, 7 de 17 hombres acusados de asesinar a una mujer, fueron declarados inocentes o recibieron una condena por homicidio involuntario.
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Hello to new followers. We Can't Consent To This was a response to the short sentence of 3years 8 months given in Dec 2018 to the man who killed Natalie Connolly. He claimed that many of her injuries were due to consensual rough sex.

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Natalie is not alone. We've searched every news and legal archive we can to find there are 59 UK women and girls killed by men who claim that they consented to the violence. And many more injured in non-fatal assaults.

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And here is what we found: In UK cases, everyone who uses this defence is male. Many have extremely serious previous convictions for violence. Those in relationships were often abusive and the women often leaving the relationship
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Who claims "sex games gone wrong"?

A few people have asked this, so we made this infographic:
There are 50 UK women and 5 UK men who've died in what the men suspected claim is "sex games gone wrong", or "rough sex" or BDSM.

We cover these cases in detail on wecantconsenttothis.uk
There may be more we have not yet found. There are many more cases of women injured...
by men who claim in court the women consented to the violence as part of sex.

We have found a small number of cases of women who are thought to have killed themselves in a "sex game". BUT in 2 of those a man was later convicted of murder, in 1 further the police failed to
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