Serenity
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I've been holding back on this to wait for the end result, but now it's final. Short story is my father went to a party, woke up the next morning knowing nothing and a week later was suspected of rape. He's been married to my step-mother for 20 years, they have a good marriage. She wasn't with him to this party, this is normal and goes both ways.
My father doesn't remember anything, he was probably drunk as fvck. I find it extremely unlikely he did anything like that, he's a harmless man both drunk and sober. However, not remembering isn't exactly a strong defence. Her evidence was her claims and some skin cells with DNA, no fluids or anything like that. I heard some witnesses testified in favor of my father, she's got a bad reputation and her behavior that night might have been a bit shady.
I live in Norway, so pretty much any sentence would be milder than what is the case in America, keep that in mind. He risked getting over 3 years in prison and pay about $30k to her, luckily it turned out much better. He got 120 days and she doesn't get sh!t. He also have good chance of serving the time with those transmitter things they put on ankles, don't know what they're called in English.
I think this is a typical case of women getting away with rape charges, even though the sentence was severely reduced because of the uncertainty of actual guilt. I would rather think she was coming onto my father, my father despite being drunk out of his mind refusing and her taking advantage of the situation to do some revenge or something. Nobody believes he did it, not me, not my brother, not my step-mother and not everyone who knows him well.
I don't think I'm going to be blackout drunk for a while, especially not around women I don't know or worse has a bad reputation. This entire thing just feels like sh!t, he doesn't deserve this.
My father doesn't remember anything, he was probably drunk as fvck. I find it extremely unlikely he did anything like that, he's a harmless man both drunk and sober. However, not remembering isn't exactly a strong defence. Her evidence was her claims and some skin cells with DNA, no fluids or anything like that. I heard some witnesses testified in favor of my father, she's got a bad reputation and her behavior that night might have been a bit shady.
I live in Norway, so pretty much any sentence would be milder than what is the case in America, keep that in mind. He risked getting over 3 years in prison and pay about $30k to her, luckily it turned out much better. He got 120 days and she doesn't get sh!t. He also have good chance of serving the time with those transmitter things they put on ankles, don't know what they're called in English.
I think this is a typical case of women getting away with rape charges, even though the sentence was severely reduced because of the uncertainty of actual guilt. I would rather think she was coming onto my father, my father despite being drunk out of his mind refusing and her taking advantage of the situation to do some revenge or something. Nobody believes he did it, not me, not my brother, not my step-mother and not everyone who knows him well.
I don't think I'm going to be blackout drunk for a while, especially not around women I don't know or worse has a bad reputation. This entire thing just feels like sh!t, he doesn't deserve this.