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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The victims MUST come forward.  Isn't that the irony?  "Jackie" in the story isn't sure she wants to come forward and yet SHE holds the key to their conviction.  She was brutally attacked and yet she is unwilling to scream that out until she is heard and they pay.  I understand there are costs for her to go forward, but it's kind of a conundrum that the article is saying "they all get away with it" and at the same time, reporting that the victims haven't wanted to make it a criminal case.  Seems one is necessary for the other.

I can't imagine being so fully assaulted and NOT making someone pay.  Hell to the no.[/quote]

It would be useless for Jackie to come forward at this point because there is no evidence. She may inspire some future rape victim to report it to the POLICE (not UVA) and go straight to the police instead of showering away the evidence.

The sad fact is that those boys will never pay, they will never admit it and her lame friends will still not testify to much (not that even really matters). [/quote]

there IS evidence.  there were witnesses who saw her right afterward.  And SHE is evidence -- she can testify. There may be members of the fraternity who would testify.  To say there is NO evidence is just patently wrong.  [/quote]

Her "friends" didn't even think she was raped. They can only testify that she [b]said [/b]she was raped and that she was upset. She could have gotten drunk and fallen down the steps and gotten the same injuries they saw. The bro's are not going to testify. Real evidence is something other than what you think it is. [/quote]

That is evidence. They testify that they saw her with her clothing ripped or disheveled, a black eye, crying, whatever they saw. They also have the victim's testimony. There may be other evidence -- people who were at the party, even pictures. Trust me, one of these guys is going to break ranks and snitch, maybe more than one. Trust me, there will be a race to get that reduced sentence. If they want to claim she fell down the steps they'll have to offer up evidence of their own.

One witness doesn't tell the whole story. Its a brick in the total wall.[/quote]

Sorry but that is not the way it works in real life. Convicting a crime of rape when you know your assailant is close to impossible without an admission of guilt. I am sure each boy has a lawyer and will never speak of the incident ever in their whole life. [/quote]

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