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    Default Re: Forcable Rape in Missouri

    Unless this man has a history of assaulting women. I do not see any prosecutor believing prosecuting this case would be a wise use of resources. You have no way of knowing if evidence presented. Would be enough for a particular crime. You do not know how to interpret the evidence or the law. But, lets say a prosecutor went ahead with the case. Do you or she have any idea the trauma a trial can cause ? Having it played out in the media. The defense attorney trying to make it look like your wife was,the one that did something wrong ? None of this would go away after the trail. No matter the verdict. It would be on the internet, in newspapers archives in your local library, etc forever. Not to mention in the back of the publics minds. Things would come out your wife prefers be kept private. Do you have children? Would your wife mind your children reading the slanted medias view points ?

    The above things are all things your wife would have to carefully weight. Your opinions and feelings do not matter. Your wife needs to contact a Rape Crisis Center in your area. They might be able to suggest a mental health professional that deals in cases like hers. Some centers have counselors trained to work with victims of sexual assualt.

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    Default Re: Forcable Rape in Missouri

    Thanks to all that have provided legitimate input. I'm not sure what the next step will be for my wife, but it is clear if this dirt bag ever runs for office we will get a change to throw mud. How is it that it has become the "norm" for a young man to treat girls this way? Am I blind or was I just raised differently? How do we stop the sexual sin against young women and get boys be respectful?

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    Default Re: Forcable Rape in Missouri

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    Our question is would this actually hold water in the legal system, and would a prosecutor be likely to do something with this charge as it is 16 yrs old?
    No one here can intelligently predict what an unknown prosecutor would or wouldn't do, but consider the following:

    Let's say your wife reports the matter. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume she has no evidence of what happened other than her testimony. Not only was your wife admittedly drunk, but the event in question happened 16 years ago.

    Now let's say that someone decides to go talk with the boy involved. What do you think he's going to say about what happened? Maybe he denies that any sex occurred at all. Maybe he's stupid and admits that the sex occurred but says your wife was lucid and consented. Maybe he says that your wife was the one who initiated the sex and that he, as the younger student, felt he had no choice but to go along with it -- i.e., that your wife raped him and not the other way around.

    So...unless this guy for some reason admits to a forcible rape (and I think we can both agree that's not going to happen), what do you think a prosecutor is going to do with something like this that's nothing more than one person's word against another?

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    do we have any grounds for emotional damage/distress? Does Missouri have any limits on Civil Charges in a case like this?
    First, there's no "we." I assume you didn't even know your wife at the time. Second, yes, there's a statute of limitations, and it has long since expired.

    The only realistic thing for your wife to do at this point is to seek treatment from a mental health professional.

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