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   Pete nospam Zakel to Michael Snyder   
   Re: Most rapes go unreported   
   30 Apr 09 11:56:58   
   
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   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article <49f906ba$0$95492$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Michael Snyder   
    writes:   
   >Pete nospam Zakel wrote:   
   >> In article <49f7c3c3$0$95569$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Michael Snyder   
    writes:   
   >>> Pete nospam Zakel wrote:   
   >>>> In article  "Speeders &   
   Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"  writes:   
   >>>>> Most rapes are fiction - like that duke lacrosse team fiasco.  Some lazy   
   >>>>> bitch  trying to ruin some guy's lives and make a fortune.   
   >>   
   >>>> It's attitudes like that that cause women to be afraid to report real   
   rapes   
   >>>> and that allow real rapists to be found not guilty even when the rape is   
   >>>> reported.   
   >>   
   >>> And it's attitudes like yours that allow innocent men to be convicted   
   >>> of rapes that never happened, based on the unsupported testimony of   
   >>> women such as the one referred to above.   
   >>   
   >> I happen to know women who have been raped whose rapists were found "not   
   >> guilty" because not enough jurors could be convinced to convict them despite   
   >> overwhelming evidence.   
   >   
   >And I happen to know men who have been falsely accused of rape.   
      
   How many of them have actually been convicted of rape?   
      
   >But more importantly, I know the difference between anecdote and evidence.   
      
   So do I.   
      
   The number of falsely accused men who are convicted of rape are far, far fewer   
   than the number of true rapes that never get prosecuted because women are   
   afraid to bring charges or testify.   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
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