The full title includes Victims of Sexual Offences, and this is the latest offering of a pernicious document designed with the express purpose of making it easier to convict men of rape regardless of the evidence or lack thereof. One would have thought that after the conspiracy to destroy Alex Salmond the high and mighty of Scotland would have learned their lesson, or perhaps they have learned a different one.
Or perhaps that should be who is trying to brainwash young American women? First watch the video, then read the comments. As the reader will see, this one minute wonder was uploaded to Yahoo! (and several other websites) on April 28 and by May 7, late London time, had attracted well over two thousand comments, almost all of them hostile.
The reality is that rape is always prosecuted where the allegation is considered credible while false rape allegations are prosecuted infrequently, in the UK at least.
Here are a few examples from the same time period to illustrate the point.
Last month’s acquittal of Alex Salmond on multiple charges of sexual assault including two of attempted rape should be seen as a vindication of due process. Alas, it goes without saying that not everybody was happy with the verdicts, including Sandy Brindley, the Chief Executive of Rape Crisis Scotland. It also goes without saying the “victims” were not happy.
