Quote from Nikonian

Note how this was never branded or tried as false accusation according to the article.

I think we have to be very careful about what a false accusation is, or at least the type of false accusation that is heinous and must be punished.

Honest mistakes happen. We've all looked across the street/room and seen someone who looked like someone we know .. and that's someone we know. It is even easier to mistake the identity of someone we've only met under traumatic circumstances.

Of course, 17 years in jail is a terrible result of an accident in identity but if a person's accused had been attacked and if their accuser was genuine in identifying them, the only political issue is what kind of compensation they have. Meanwhile, the police and prosecution should always review the case to see if they could have done things better, as well as try to track down the real culprit.

A genuine misidentification is a totally separate matter from an accuser who was never assaulted, or who knows that their attacker was someone else.

I would like to pose a question:
Instead of always sending the rapist to prison, what about having a forced marriage between the two? It makes him take responsibility; and as we already know, if there is divorce, she can drain him dry. Sounds like a plan to me.

FB. Would YOU like to be FORCED to marry someone you did not love and who had accused you of a heinous crime?

Are you not also giving some validity to rapacious 'bleeding dry' of a man by a woman?

Not a great plan, it seems to me.

I see what you are saying Douglas. Maybe it is the way the story was written but I just felt there were a few holes they should have dug up before rushing him off to prison...

I'm with Percy on this one too...

Maybe being forced to marry might not that good of an idea. But then it can make the 'victim' think twice about making false allegations. After all, she has to marry him as well. If she was never really abused would she want to end up married to the one she falsely accused?

While it would be a regulation that could be abused by crazy, gold-digging women and girls, those are pretty easy to spot or figure out once she tries to seduce the man. There is also the possibility that she was abused, but not by the guy she identified. In this case, her family would have something to loose; her friends would not want her to leave them; the state would have not one, but two people to think about, a guy and girl; and the feminist would also want more proof, thereby uncovering more evidence in the accused's favor.

It can have bad and good consequences, but mostly I think it will serve to cause people to think twice before falsely accusing or committing the act.

Forced marriage is a shit idea and I have dads complaining about it more than women.
The difficult task is getting these men to understand they aren't shit.