Court Martial Lawyer on How Common are False Accusations of Military Sexual Assault

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2 thoughts on “Court Martial Lawyer on How Common are False Accusations of Military Sexual Assault

  1. One way and another all the services, listed here the Marines, Air Force and Army, as well as the Navy . Have been at great pains to get the message the very last people they want are straight white men.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/07/royal-navy-serco-recruit-deckhands-force-hits-rock-bottom/
    Rather publicly the RAF managed to scandalously act illegally, while all services have advertising encouraging “diverse” applications. In my experience actual recruitment into the Army and Marines is from relatively small communities with an history of such recruitment with service running in extended families. The “woke” state of those services is thus well known in those communities. I imagine the same is true of the Navy, though maybe less so for the RAF. Bottom line is is you signal strongly white straight guys need not apply because they’re not welcome. Unsurprisingly they may take the hint and go where they are wanted. Bit of a problem when over 80% of the general population are “white” and only a tiny number of females apply. By far the biggest potential “pool” is thus “told” not to bother.

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  2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wear-67883460
    This case where Jack Diamond has been cleared of rape, illustrates what is no doubt a common scenario. The young woman carried on a casual relationship with Diamond but “wanted more” and felt rejected. In fact though upset she had not thought the incident was a crime until her father had rung the police. After which she “had “persuaded herself” some of her claims were true, adding she may have “reframed” the incident afterwards”.
    Interestingly the jury was mainly female , and I sometimes wonder if women are less credulous than men, so eager to be the white knight.
    In common with many such cases the complainant was not the one who reported the “crime”, in this case her father did, after which things “snowballed” as she “developed a story” to support what had become a serious crime case. One can see how that happens as the Police are under pressure to turn any such report into a case; to up their stats. Once made the accusation has to follow through. With, yet again, the case hinging on the credibility of the only two people involved. I notice that the prosecution used the fact he’d had alcohol to suggest he was rampant, yet again it seems its assumed alcohol is a drug that makes females vulnerable and men monsters.
    It is interesting that the prosecution summing up takes pains to make clear that however one may feel about the morality of the relationship, this is not relevant to the law, which is about “consent”. Which is a good exposition of why the current law is nonsense; in a society where sex is not a serious undertaking but simply a natural thing to be “expressed” . After all you don’t have to have “training” to find it difficult to see how, in a “95%” sex, casual relationship mainly conducted in cars, one particular instance is a heinous capital crime. No doubt the feminists will say this jury was swayed by “rape myths” but I suspect they simply applied common sense.
    And Jack Diamond has learned not to believe women when they say they are sexually liberated, and don’t expect a “price” for sex.

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