The law, courts and sexual offences

This must be treated as a male problem by society, police and the judiciary.

Rape and sexual assault is as much about power and control over women than orgasm for the perpetrators.

Am sorry about your experience Cossy. That must have been so horrid for you and though I luckily have never been sexually assaulted a school friend of mine was raped by another friend’s dad whom she had a crush on. She only told me years later. She never told a soul.

Thanks for raising this important issue.
I feel very strongly about this. It does seem that sexual offences are not taken as seriously as they should be, indeed we have the case recently of the three boys who raped underage girls but initially were not given a custodial sentence due to a lenient judge ignoring the victims and praising the boys for behaving so well in court. Thankfully public outrage forced the case to be reviewed and I believe two boys now have custodial sentences. But it should not have turned out that way in the first place, where a judge could praise the boys and throw the victims under a bus.
This is why so many girls and women don’t report sexual offences. The whole system is skewed in favour of the offender, as if it is the victim who is guilty until proved innocent, with the victim’s lifestyle under scrutiny - ‘was she drunk’ ‘has she had sexual relations with other boys/men’ ‘was she dressed and behaving inappropriately.’
Indeed one of the underage girls who was raped by the boys already mentioned was described as ‘a bit of a rebel’, why was that even relevant???