FWIW, I’ve heard of at least one case of a woman who had a stalker who was making “I have a rape fantasy, won’t you help me make it come true?” posts under her name and giving out her address and phone number. (I read about it in Reader’s Digest about 10 years ago, but I don’t know what the original source was.) Fortunately this woman was not assaulted. She started getting a lot of obscene phone calls and was using an answering machine to screen her calls. She finally got fed up with it and picked up the phone and demanded to know why this guy wouldn’t just leave her alone. That’s when she found out about the Internet posts being made in her name.
I remember that this was considered a tricky legal problem as her stalker hadn’t hacked into any accounts belonging to this woman, he’d created a new email account in her name. There’s no law against using a fake name online, and the contact info he was posting was publicly available.
Sounds like this true story would have made a better SVU episode than what they came up with instead!
Yeah, that was a pretty lame sting at the end. I said, “Gosh, Evil Judge Kurtz, you’re really not seeing through this? Their little high school production of ‘We’re Going To Trick Us An Evil Judge’ didn’t set off ANY alarm bells?”
You mean fables that were read to you as a 3 year old don’t become important sayings that you incorporate into your adult life?
And isn’t that same fable confined to your memory, to the exclusion of everyone else, so that if you do quote one portion of it, your long-lost parent will instantly recognize you even though you were thought to be dead…?
IANALawyer, but I would guess he’d probably be tried for rape. In general, the courts take the position that any act of sex that doesn’t have full mutual consent- the participant’s beliefs notwithstanding- is rape. Thus you have statutory rape (too young to legally give consent), rape by fraud (consent was fraudulantly obtained), or “no, it wasn’t really consent” (she was blind drunk, etc.) In the case of statutory rape, even having the minor actively deceive you about their age isn’t a defense.
So there really would be no way to engage in the type of “rape fantasy” portrayed on the show? Even if I had a signed contract with my wife, notarized and on file at the courthouse?
You could, but if she then said “no, stop I REALLY MEAN IT!!!” and you didn’t, then she could file a charge of rape. This btw is why “safe words” were invented.
This show went downhill when they started trying to fit two or more “ripped from the headlines” type stories into a show, instead of one. Like last week’s Casey Anthony/anti-vaccination episode. They’ve never had a “ripped” episode based on real life that played exactly the same as it did in reality, but instead of building a good story, they seem to be trying to reach a quota of twists, whether said twists make sense or not.
Wow, I got dizzy just reading that synopsis, I’m pretty sure my head would have exploded had I watched the show. L&O Criminal Intent is the only one that still does it for me, the plotlines are far more interesting and D’Onofrio is always good value.
I really want to know the line from Aesop. I don’t watch the show often enough,but when I do I’m always confused by the “how many hot topics can we cram into one crime?” method.
