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This is the dumbest, most dangerous thing I've seen in a VERY long time!
EVERYONE should be outraged!
EVERYONE should be outraged!
Digging into this:
"There's a 40-year-old legal precedent that says a person cannot revoke consent to a sex act. Continuing after being asked to stop does not constitute a crime.
North Carolina is the only state in the nation where this is true."
newsobserver.com/news/state/nor…
"There's a 40-year-old legal precedent that says a person cannot revoke consent to a sex act. Continuing after being asked to stop does not constitute a crime.
North Carolina is the only state in the nation where this is true."
newsobserver.com/news/state/nor…
So let me get this straight:
A woman gives consent and begins having sex with a man. At some point during their encounter, he starts to do (insert horrible, awful thing here) and she says "Stop! Get off me!"
And he legally doesn't have to. He can continue to do whatever. WTF!
A woman gives consent and begins having sex with a man. At some point during their encounter, he starts to do (insert horrible, awful thing here) and she says "Stop! Get off me!"
And he legally doesn't have to. He can continue to do whatever. WTF!
"Wind said she’s seen a few cases where a woman consents to sex with a condom, and then the partner in mid-act removes it. It’s called “stealthing,” but under that 1979 ruling, it’s legal to continue having sex even if the other person tells you to stop."
One Monday in January, Aaliyah Palmer, 19, spent several hours telling law enforcement in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that she had been raped.
Things started out OK, she said, in a consensual encounter in a bathroom. But when the man having sex with her began...
Things started out OK, she said, in a consensual encounter in a bathroom. But when the man having sex with her began...
tearing out her hair, she demanded he stop; he didn’t.
The detective asked, "At any time after she said no, did her attacker stop having sex with her, then penetrate her once again?"
Yes, Palmer said.
“OK,” the detective replied, according to Palmer. “That’s important.”
The detective asked, "At any time after she said no, did her attacker stop having sex with her, then penetrate her once again?"
Yes, Palmer said.
“OK,” the detective replied, according to Palmer. “That’s important.”
"This May, another North Carolina woman, Amy Guy, revealed that the law had prevented prosecutors from charging her husband with rape, after a violent attack in which she repeatedly resisted.
Guy was estranged from her husband when he showed up unannounced at her new home and...
Guy was estranged from her husband when he showed up unannounced at her new home and...
demanded she sleep with him. Her husband had been violent in the past, Guy said, so she consented. When he began to hurt her, she told him to stop. He did not.
A rape conviction could have carried a prison sentence of five and a half to nearly seven years...
A rape conviction could have carried a prison sentence of five and a half to nearly seven years...
But once somebody in the prosecutor’s office recalled the 1979 ruling, law enforcement allowed Guy’s husband to plead guilty to a lesser charge, of misdemeanor assault, for being violent during their encounter.
“I was devastated,” Guy said in an interview...
“I was devastated,” Guy said in an interview...
“That did not make any sense. I was taught that no means no and it’s not really true.”
He was given a sentence of 10 months and is due to be released in November.
He was given a sentence of 10 months and is due to be released in November.
