mothra wrote on Jul 12
th, 2024 at 8:58am:
Now factor in what you said.
Now weigh it all up and consider if you had just been horribly traumatised and brutalised whether you felt like immediately reporting it to the police? And knowing what conviction rates are and what people have to go through to procure them ... all to be processed and faced while traumatised?
Or maybe you agree with Frank, rape is simply unsophisticated sex. or with Crappler, tear the accusers apart!
whatever you blokes decide amongst yourselves, rape victims will continue to under-report and upon occasion, report suddenly, should the mood take them. This is simply part of the process. The only choice that is left to them.
And you resent even that.
Of course you do.
The only example of being raped I can say I have experienced is one that happens to be a technicality. I was 12 years old. The lady in question was about 25 or 26 years old. I was flirting with the lady, and the lady thought it was amusing that a young 'teenager' would hit upon her like that. She decided to do me a favour.
A week later, Mum gets this phone call from the lady. That lady said that I had got her pregnant. Mum informed her that I was only 12 years old. I still remember hearing the faint sound of a squeal coming from the receiver, as I sat about 3 metres away at the table. Mum told her how stupid she was, before terminating the call.
Obviously, I did not want to report the incident. Mum was very annoyed, but thought that it was probably a prank call. She figured that a woman with a very sultry voice would not possibly want to sleep with a pre-teen like me. I could swear that she almost changed her mind, when she spotted me smirking whilst I reminisced about the previous week.
Basically, my situation was nowhere near as serious as genuine rape victims. But, if Mum wanted to pursue the matter of child rape, it would take 9 months before any DNA evidence would be available. Aaaand, the lady was back in the USA when my daughter was born. So, that is a wildly different perspective of how a 'raped' child would not report to police being raped. I also did not want the lady to have her career destroyed because of this.