On reading the small print…
As our glorious dead tree press descends into ‘penny dreadful’ country, Ms Raccoon has become correspondingly more obsessed with checking the small print – otherwise known as referring to the alleged ‘source documents’.
It can be fun sometimes, ranging from discovering that the nine year old boy alleged to have been abused ‘by an MP in parliament’ (actually ‘tortured, raped and abused’) had somehow contrived to have this occur a full year before said gentleman became an MP – to poring over boring documents issued by the CPS via well concealed ‘highlighted text’ on their web site.
The CPS said that 107,104 people were prosecuted for violence against women in 2014-15, up by nearly a fifth on the year before, while 78,773 were found guilty – up by 16.9 per cent on 2013/14.
Or this:
Official figures from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) also showed that record numbers of men were being prosecuted for violent crimes against women, including rape and so-called honour based violence. In total, some 107,104 cases concerning violence against women and girls were prosecuted during 2014-15, a rise of 18.3% on the previous year.
It is hardly surprising that so many journalists quoted this document – it was, after all, released with a cover which loudly proclaimed ‘Violence Against Women and Girls 2014-2015’. It goes into those deeply fashionable crimes such as Female Genital Mutilation, and Honour Killings, everything designed to make the feminist heart beat faster. The figure of 107,104 cases prosecuted is correctly quoted. What could go wrong for your aspiring ‘copy and paste’ media employee?
Failing to check the small print, that’s what. Let me take you to the foot of page 19.
Oh, dear! Only 84% of the victims of ‘Violence Against Woman and Girls’ er, were women!
What gender were the other 16%, animal, mineral or vegetable? And regardless of which gender they fashionably identified with – what are they doing being included in your puff piece about how you are prosecuting increasing numbers of ‘violence against women and girls’?
A former priest from Derbyshire was sentenced to 15 years in prison for over twenty sexual offences against young people between six and 14-years-old between 1957 and 1991. He had fled while on bail in 1991 but was discovered in Tenerife and in 2013 he was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant to face charges against three of his victims. As a result of this news, four other victims came forward to report crimes he had committed against them. He pleaded guilty just a week before the trial which that meant his victims did not have to go through the ordeal of describing what happened to them in court.
Take this instantly recognisable case above. His victims were described at the time as ‘five altar boys and two young girls’. So, predominately male – and another of the guilty pleas…why are you so shy of outlining the violence that is used against males?
The CPS is expanding its work internationally:
In 2014- 2015 CPS provided advice and assistance in VAWG cases in connection with the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Mauritius, Mongolia, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UAE and USA.
This included enquiries to obtain witness statements, ABE interviews for victims, interview suspects, set up video links for live evidence, obtaining medical evidence, obtaining communications data, comparative law requests in extra-territorial jurisdiction cases, third party disclosure requests, jurisdictional issues and transferring proceedings to other countries.
Impressive eh? They must really know what they’re doing (apart from massaging their figures by including violence against men and transgendered individuals!)
They are terribly pleased with the fact that the proportion of successful ‘rape’ prosecutions has risen by 12.4% to 7,591 out of 9,798 – Yeah! 77% congratulations…er, until you once again consult the small print and check that against the ‘guilty’ pleas where even the CPS could hardly lose the case…
85% of all successful outcomes were guilty pleas.
First you manage to ignore some 17,000 men who were the victim of domestic violence or rape, other than tucking them, unidentified, into your puff piece about how much you are doing for ‘International Violence Against Women and Children’ – then you sneak in the admission that actually you only manage to successfully prosecute where an offence is denied in 15% of cases overall.
It’s almost as though you are under the impression that only men can be perpetrators, and only women can be victims. Surely an independent prosecution service couldn’t be displaying bias?
* This piece was written following an e-mail tip-off from a reader (you know who you are!) but my attention has now been drawn to the work of Ally Fogg who had drawn attention to the self-same points 4 days ago. So hat tip rightfully where it belongs to Ally.
- Mike
June 30, 2015 at 9:07 am -
Anna
There you go again, bothering us with facts. Can’t we just go on living with our prejudices, pre-conceptions and bias?
- Moor Larkin
June 30, 2015 at 9:31 am -
In the realm of “Historical Sex Allegations” the law has become a criminal conspiracy. It’s important not to forget that defendants will often plead guilty because the alleged crime is relatively minor anyway and the likely sentence piffling if they co-operate with the system. The more people that are sucked in of course, the sooner all this will come to some sort of head. When it’s their brother, father, boyfriend, uncle etc. women will start to realise that the only thing to fear is the law itself.
- Alex
June 30, 2015 at 9:41 am -
A bit irrelevant really, as we all surely know by now – men don’t matter do they? Especially when they’re on the receiving end. As for the appalling CPS document, like dear old Ben Disraeli said, “there are lies, damn lies and statistics”. Why worry about the truth getting in the way of a good PR opportunity?
While were on this subject of rape, there’s a question I’ve been meaning to ask for quite some time. I apologise in advance if this comes across as crass, but I’m genuinely curious. As someone who freely admits to having a very limited sexual experience, how does the rapist manage to achieve penetration? I found it quite difficult, with a very willing partner to find the entrance as it were. I should think it would be almost impossible with a struggling, non-willing individual.
- Moor Larkin
June 30, 2015 at 9:45 am -
Real rape involves violence and the threat of more, so basically they stop struggling. They’ve still been raped.
As to the Heinz varieties espoused nowadays where they are seduced and then feel cheated of their virtue, it’s a can of beans.- Alex
June 30, 2015 at 9:49 am -
That would explain it – thanks Moor. I suppose that’s why I find it hard to understand the other situations where there has apparently been no violence involved – the so called “date rape” scenario.
- Moor Larkin
June 30, 2015 at 10:06 am -
One of the phenomenon noticeable in the realm of Historical allegations so current just now is that none of them involve any stories of physical forcing. Many of the historical victims are actually on record categorically remarking that they didn’t see it as rape at the time. One woman even said that it was not until she was interviewed by the police that she realised any crime had even occurred. Like I said, this whole societal shenanigan is a massive can of beans…. or do I mean worms.
- Moor Larkin
June 30, 2015 at 2:21 pm -
It’s also moot that the 2003 nulabor laws also made rape any unacceptable entry anyplace whatsoever, so rape may have also become quite different to what you (and I) might be thinking of, as traditionally unadventurous Britishers. I’m not sure even the young folks have fully appreciated these implications themselves, although I imagine they’re learning fast just at the moment. I do wonder if the 2003 laws were being taught in Rochdale to young women for instance.
- Ted Treen
June 30, 2015 at 3:38 pm -
And – at the risk of being unjustly accused of trivialising the issue – there are those ‘victims’ who only realise they’ve been raped when the cheque bounces, or the diamonds prove to be CZs.
- Ted Treen
- Mrs Grimble
June 30, 2015 at 4:20 pm -
As a slight aside, I was looking at the sections of the Criminal Offences Act that Lord Janner is being charged under. About half of them relate to Section 12, in which the victim was under 16 at the time and thus cannot, in law, consent to sexual penetration. In other words, it was what our American cousins call ‘statutory rape’ – penetration without force and without non-consent. How many of the “crimes” in this report are of that nature?
- Moor Larkin
June 30, 2015 at 5:43 pm -
At the time of the crime anyone under 21 would have been under the age of male consent. Was Janner really gay?
- A Potted Plant
July 3, 2015 at 5:01 am -
Was Janner gay? I doubt very much that he consciously self-identified as a gay man.
“But, Janner allegedly wrote ‘love letters’ to his young friends/possible victims, and other behaviour alleged to have occurred during the course of his relationships with them seem indicative that Janner believed himself to be in a romantic relationship with them”.That could all be true, but still fail to be evidence that Janner perceived himself to be homosexual. There are complex, characteristic rationalizations frequently expressed by men in pederastic relationships, dating all the way back to ancient Greece. Convicted child pornographer & Illinois State hearings (1977) witness Gerald S. Richards described the boy-lover subculture he became involved with through fellow Better Life Monthly conspirators and the dominant attitudes expressed by members of this subculture. Richards stated that members of the BL community did not identify as gay or bisexual and were typically disdainful of those who did – particularly any males with effeminate traits. Many were married, or bachelors cut from the heterosexual ‘Don Juan’ model. Richards was married himself, “but he also became homosexually involved with one of his male models, a 12-year-old boy who was his babysitter, next-door neighbor, assistant in his professional magic act, and his solicitor for other young boy models”. The BL community seem to have employed a typical pederastic rationalization about their sexual involvement with boys – that the men were hyper-masculine males uniquely equipped to “mentor” young males “in the ways of men”, a mentorship which included awakening the boy’s sexuality and teaching them to be proficient in all manner of sexual activity by perpetrating it on them. The BLs claimed to love their young victims, but perceived this love to be paternal or fraternal rather than romantic in nature.
- A Potted Plant
- Moor Larkin
- Moor Larkin
- Alex
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 30, 2015 at 12:59 pm -
. I should think it would be almost impossible with a struggling, non-willing individual.
it’s mainly ‘Physics’- stuff Engineer could explain but i won’t even attempt, leverage and pinion etc. The rest is Terror being as good a lubricant and ‘loosening’ agent as lust.
- Moor Larkin
June 30, 2015 at 1:04 pm -
It must be even harder with a man… oh dear, what am I saying….
- windsock
June 30, 2015 at 1:26 pm -
Trust me on this one – terror is not a good lubricant for someone subject to rape.
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 30, 2015 at 1:54 pm -
Trust me on this one – terror is not a good lubricant for someone subject to rape.
I beg to differ. Mind you the lubrication only seems to be inside not out, which helps account for, I assume, the typical “clock face” injuries….and that really is enough graphic detail for a lunchtime. Something to do with the brain realizing that penetration is imminent, wanted or otherwise, and trying to ensure the least damage possible? You will, if you talk to women who have been raped, hear the phrase ‘my body betrayed me’ or similar. I recall one girl who felt she must have , subconsciously, consented , have ‘wanted it’, because of the ease of which he entered her .
Thank you for putting me off my croque. That’s two days in a row I haven’t felt like eating lunch in the Ol’ Arms.
- windsock
June 30, 2015 at 2:00 pm -
I was not talking from a female point of view. Sorry about the sandwich.
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 30, 2015 at 2:31 pm -
No I’m sorry for getting the wrong end of the stick (if that’s not a poor choice of phrase) and for pontificating about something that, being male, I will never fully understand…I should have put some ‘oftens’ and ‘almosts’ (‘almost as good a lubricant’ )etc in both my comments. There are plenty of raped women who didn’t ‘limbic lube’, where blood was the only lubrication.
Mind you, referring to a Croque Monsieur as a ‘sandwich’ makes you no friends dans Chez Dwarf. Why not go the whole heresy hog and call it ‘Welsh Rarebit’?! Bloody culinary Philistine!
- DtP
July 1, 2015 at 7:51 am -
Hee hee
- DtP
- The Blocked Dwarf
- windsock
- The Blocked Dwarf
- Moor Larkin
- Moor Larkin
- Alexander Baron
June 30, 2015 at 10:13 am -
Real rape leaves physical evidence, which is the main reason there is so much late reporting. If you talk to police officers and lawyers off the record they will tell you that half or perhaps more than half of rape allegations are spurious.
If you check out some of the videos on YouTube of women actually being attacked, you will understand why. Start with this one:
- Able
June 30, 2015 at 10:15 am -
Being as un-PC as possible (why change the habit of a lifetime) I suspect the real reason the rape/assault/paedophilia against males is … glossed over is not so much to do with the gender of the victims but rather the gender or orientation of the perpetrators. (much like FGM is enforced by … shock, horror only the women of a certain culture so it gets lumped in with rape and assault in case anyone considers that inconvenient fact).
It would be interesting to know just how many of these incidences of violence against women were … performed by other women too (having made the mistake of strolling down my local high-street on a Friday evening lately, I’d guess that most of the assaults are woman on woman – it was “amusing” to watch as ‘all’ the men vacated the areas of such (cat)fights knowing even being seen within a hundred yards of it would make ‘them’ the guilty party in the eyes of the local constabulary).
I also wonder about just how many of those 100000+ crimes would actually be defined as such by the man in the street. After all when regretting a sexual encounter (six months later but only when the current boyfriend finds out or he doesn’t call) is now rape, where looking at a woman (whilst being offensively poor and/or plain looking) is sexual assault and either disagreeing with or not giving the wife money when she wants it is classed as abuse, well those figures are suspect to say the least.
- Joe Public
June 30, 2015 at 10:29 am -
If I told that one of my teachers ‘patted’ me on the bum, presumably that’d entitle me to join the queue for compo.
In reality, he didn’t use the naughty step, his punishment for ‘talking during lessons’ was to write the offender’s name in chalk on the sole of a plimsoll, and whack said offenders arse repeatedly until name had transferred from sole to trousers.
His remedy ensured relatively quiet & well-behaved classes.
- macheath
June 30, 2015 at 5:56 pm -
You presumably are made of sterner stuff than the boy who took his prep school to the European Court of Human Rights after he was ‘slippered’. At the time of the ruling (five to four against him on article 3), he was all of 15 years old and still at secondary school; imagine what he must have been like to teach…
Jeremy claimed that the corporal punishment inflicted on him constituted ‘degrading punishment’, contrary to article 3, relying on his age, the fact he had been at the school for only five weeks, the humiliating site of the punishment, the impersonal and automatic way in which it had been administered, and the three-day wait for its implementation. […] Jeremy also alleged that his corporal punishment had given rise to a breach of article 8, the right to respect for his private life.
- Moor Larkin
June 30, 2015 at 6:03 pm -
5-4…. Jeezuz H … He nearly won… 8-o
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 30, 2015 at 6:18 pm -
the impersonal and automatic way in which it had been administered,
What did Jeremy want, a cane with his name running through it like a stick of rock? Should Whackford have promised to ‘kiss it better’ afterwards ?
- The Blocked Dwarf
- Moor Larkin
- macheath
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 30, 2015 at 11:33 am -
that only men can be perpetrators, and only women can be victims
Unless the alleged Perp has a peerage and a bank balance then “Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola “, what lawyers call the ‘Jenner Clause’ I believe…..
- Oi you
June 30, 2015 at 12:07 pm -
It’s seems to me that some of the accusations are pure fiction and the more fictitious they are, the more likely they are believed and the heavier the sentence at court. Whereas real abuse seems to be brushed under the carpet and the perps let off with light sentence or not even sentenced at all.
Talk about topsy turvy…
- Opus
June 30, 2015 at 12:09 pm -
I have for a long time (i.e. since it was formed back in the 1980s) thought that the CPS were a despicable politically motivated body (who are also fairly incompetent). The old Police Prosecutors may have lacked the lawyers skill and training but they were often no worse than what passes for prosecution these days.
Men don’t want to be violent to women, they want to (with approval) fuck them: I have never (I know I have often said this before on the net) come across whether personally or professionally a case of Rape that was other than obvious fabrication. So far as violence per se is concerned I refer to Erin Pizzey. Most men when you press them will acknowledge that they have been bitten, punched, kicked, and the like by females, but will deny that they ever so assault females. As that certainly ties in with my observations (and experiences) then why do the CPS propagate their Androphobic nonsense?
- The Jannie
June 30, 2015 at 12:57 pm -
“only men can be perpetrators, and only women can be victims”
You’ll be telling me next that only white folks can be racist.
- Moor Larkin
June 30, 2015 at 2:33 pm -
“penetrators” is the key-word not perpetrators. All very Freudian if you ask me. The fear of the penis.
- The Blocked Dwarf
June 30, 2015 at 2:34 pm -
Husha yo honky mouff, Chalky!
- Moor Larkin
June 30, 2015 at 3:09 pm -
Mandingo was a big hit amongst the girls back in the bad old, good old Seventies…
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- Moor Larkin
- Moor Larkin
- Carol42
June 30, 2015 at 1:37 pm -
What exactly is the current definition of rape? As far as I can see most cases are not what I would consider rape. The attack I suffered 40 years ago with no long lasting effects! Would now be considered rape despite no penetration taking place thanks to my keeping calm and screaming as soon as I got the chance. This attack was a stranger so quite frightening. Most of what they now call date rape we called morning after regret.
- Bandini
June 30, 2015 at 2:24 pm -
I read an article a while back making a case for the end (or reduction, I can’t remember) of the term ‘rape’ in court cases.
The argument was that the low conviction rate could partly be explained by a reluctance to find someone guilty of ‘rape’ when the actual incident does not chime with a juror’s own definition of what a rape is. In other words, the new definition of rape (whatever it may be) has not really caught on amongst normal people, and they may, therefore, be wary of labelling someone a ‘rapist’ when another label would be far more appropriate.The whole piece was aimed at increasing – not decreasing! – rates of conviction, but the commentators piped-up with the usual “maybe he’s got something to hide himself” & “I hope he hasn’t got children” smears, oblivious to this point.
- Moor Larkin
June 30, 2015 at 2:38 pm - Opus
June 30, 2015 at 5:36 pm -
I know I am a little behind the times (such as about three hundred years) but Blackstone sets the subject of Rape out admirably in his Commentaries. I can see no reason for revising his views.
- Moor Larkin
- Bandini
- Ergathones
June 30, 2015 at 11:04 pm -
Goodness gracious, would you Adam & Eve it… a FEMALE perpetrator of historical abuse, against BOYS? Spot the date the first allegation was made too… howzabout that then?
- Moor Larkin
July 1, 2015 at 9:12 am -
The 70’s teen classic “Summer of 42” wherein an underage boy has a love affair with a young war widow seems moot. The story behind the movie is that the script-writer WAS that young man. In later years he tracked her down, not to sue her, but to thank her for one of the most wonderful episodes of his life. She, on the contrary had spent much of her life in a state of angst over the damage she feared she might have done to that young boy she took advantage of. The funniest part of all of this is that because it was all in California (age of unmarried Consent 18), the “boy” was 17 at the time anyway. Presumably all the most pious Californians believe Europe is an empire run by paedo’s who allow sex with children legally, and they’re using England as a bridgehead to liberate a Continent.
- windsock
July 1, 2015 at 10:30 am
- windsock
- Moor Larkin
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