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Asked Thursday by the judge if she knew any of the accused, Gisèle said she recognised only one.

“He was our neighbour. He came over to check our bikes. I used to see him at the bakery. He was always polite. I had no idea he was coming to rape me.”

Gisèle was then reminded by the judge that in order to respect the presumption of innocence, it had been agreed in court not to use the word rape but “sex scene”.

She replied: “I just think they should recognise the facts. When I think of what they have done I am overcome with disgust. They should at least have the responsibility to recognise what they did.”

After the truth emerged, Gisèle found that she was carrying four sexually-transmitted diseases.

“I have had no sympathy from any of the accused. One who was HIV-positive came six times. Not once did my husband express any concern about my health,” she said.

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[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago

Sex scene? What the fuck? It's fucking RAPE.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

A sex scene implies consent. An unconscious person cannot consent.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

While I agree the presumption of innocence should always be upheld in court. I'd argue saying the alleged rape would be better.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 1 week ago

No, it's not better to make a suspected victim use words that revictimizes them.

Any legal system that isn't a joke understands that not everyone should be held to the same standard of professionalist ass-covering.

[-] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's because France doesn't recognise rape on a consent basis, it does so based on the matter of forceful penetration, i.e: the person needs to resist it. At least that's what I read in a different article. It's fucked up.

[-] carmanut@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

What the fuck

[-] sachamato@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

This story gets me the chills. Very sad.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just to add some more fuel to the shit filled dumpster fire, they found a lot of nude pictures of his daughter asleep on the guy's hard drive. She is worried the same thing happened to her because she woke up one time in underwear that were not hers.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Just when you think humanity cannot get any lower, surprise surprise

[-] kusuriya@infosec.pub 18 points 1 week ago

What in the ever loving star spangled fuck? Right to jail...

[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

6 feet under the jail.

[-] noxy@yiffit.net 16 points 1 week ago

what the FUCK is wrong with people

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We used to have more violent responses to people, which were then supplanted by a legal system that reduced violence, but offered almost no alternative solutions.

[-] noxy@yiffit.net 2 points 1 week ago

The legal system's proposed solutions to violence are just more violence in a lot of places

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 week ago

After the truth emerged, Gisèle found that she was carrying four sexually-transmitted diseases.

“I have had no sympathy from any of the accused. One who was HIV-positive came six times. Not once did my husband express any concern about my health,” she said.

Holy shit. I didn't think this could get worse. It just got worse.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

I'll be honest dude, you should have understood that was a given.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago

I bet that guy thought it was weird that someone considered this abuse. Probably considered the someone weird, too.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One of the rapists did not consider it abuse because they did not believe in marital rape.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 week ago

You are spot on. And just because something isn't considered abusive by law doesn't make it "not abuse "

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

Which is a pretty fucking weird take even by that standard.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee -5 points 1 week ago

Somehow, the root of this is religion. Inevitably.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateAChristian/comments/xhc2q5/the_bible_justifies_and_commands_marital_rape/

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/109be1r/its_not_talked_about_enough_evangelicals_and/

Something tells me you could have found a lot more reasoning behind the self evident statement for even more religions if you had stopped to consider it for any time at all.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I don't understand how anything tells us religion caused, directly or indirectly, this particular case ? can you clarify ?

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