While I worry endlessly about the impacts of technology to follow our every move, record every phone call, and read every email... it is these technologies that saved the day for 3 innocent college kids from a life time of eating prison gruel in the Duke case. What got them off the hook was the geographical location data from their cell phones. Without that, the rush to judgment would have overwhelmed everything else... at best, they could have hoped for a decade of "professional defendant" status while the lawyers picked their bones clean. I have come to value my smart phone.
The sad fact is that even though the young men in the Duke Rape case were found to be "Factually Innocent" (which is very, very different from "Not Guilty"), their accuser was never charged with a crime. Several years later she stabbed her boyfriend to death.
Read this story. A woman fabricates a brutal sexual attack for the purpose of winning custody of her child and ridding herself of the inconvenience of the boy's father. The man spends 83 in solitary confinement, loses his job, his life savings, only to have TECHNOLOGY prove that he was "Factually Innocent". His accuser had tried to kill him using the criminal justice system... yet she has faced no charges as of yet.
WHY?
These women have escaped justice for their lies because women are always victims. They would certainly have been prosecuted if the genders were reversed. The feminist narrative wins again over justice, and our 'justice' system loses a little bit more credibility.
ReplyDeleteHey, the Duke teachers that condemned their male students have not apologized for their statements, nor have they been taken to task for them. If you are innocent and male, about all you can expect is a grumpy 'we'll catch you next time' attitude.
It was the cell phone that saved the Hoefstra or hoffstra five or some such name a few years ago as well. The woman took on five guys in the bathroom and when she got caught by her boyfriend made up a rape scenario. Luckily one of the five had it on video.
ReplyDeleteI don't think she was ever charged either.