French Senate Backs Bill Defining Rape as Any Non-consensual Act with Palki Sharma. Really!

I don't believe this makes things easier in court regarding sometimes difficult cases of alleged rape!

Second, it may result in being used as a weapon or a means of extortion by a woman against a man.

What if a woman first consents and then reconsiders etc.

In my view, this is perhaps a feel good legislation!

Men beware of the battle of the sexes!

Duke lacrosse accuser makes stunning admission 20 years later disclosing she 'made up' the rape allegations

Sexual assault and rape cases are very often difficult to prove especially when the incident is not immediately reported! This is one good example!

E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for rape in 1995 and defamation as lookback window for adult sex abuse survivors' suits opens in New York

Update of 10/26/2022: Only today, I more fully realized how powerful a rape charges against a man can be. Not only can a woman accuse a man up to two decades later after the alleged rap, she can then also file a defamation suit (like in this case here) if the accused man denies any rape! Very nice! Men watch out in the battle of the sexes!

Excessive statute of limitations on rape make political assassination even more possible! This new defamation suit is most likely a hoax by a political activist!

Her alleged rape was committed in 1995 or 27 years ago! This is insane! Some of the witnesses, if there were any may not be alive anymore!

According to Wikipedia, in her book she has also alleged another man had raped her! Given her career, she appears to be a woman on a mission!

Rape is by nature in many cases a very difficult crime to prosecute!

In 2019, New York state has "extend[ed] the statute of limitations from five years to 20 years for second-degree rape and from five years to 10 years for third-degree rape.". Any such statute of limitations beyond 10 years are  extreme, allow certain women to wield a weapon of destruction against targeted men, and defy reality!

Men should be very careful to go along with such extreme statute of limitations! For men, there is no good reason to be cavalier about this in the battle of the sexes!

E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for battery and defamation as lookback window for adult sex abuse survivors' suits opens in New York | CNN Politics

Woman sentenced to 5 years in jail for false rape claims against 2 men

Rape is often a difficult crime to prove! 

How frequent are false claims of rape? False claims can ruin a man's career (think of a politician).

Unfortunately, the article does not say what her motives were.

"A woman who made a series of false rape claims has been jailed following work by some of our specialist detectives.

Cathy Richardson made a series of allegations against two men between January and May last year.

These allegations led to officers carrying out 60 investigations.

As part of these investigations, one of the men she accused was arrested and made subject to a forensic examination.

However, as officers progressed their enquiries into Richardson’s claims, they found that CCTV, phone data, and information from automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras showed the alleged attacker was not in the area at the time Richardson alleged the assaults to have taken place.

One of the men even agreed to have a GPS tracking tag fitted to his ankle which would send an alarm to police if it was destroyed or taken off.

On a number of occasions, data from the tag was analysed and showed he was not in the area when Richardson said the attack had taken place.

Richardson, 35, of North Road, Westcliff, was arrested on 28 May last year and later charged with perverting the course of justice.

She admitted 10 counts at Salisbury Crown Court on 23 May this year.

At the same court today (Friday 30 September), she was sentenced to five years and one month in prison."

Woman sentenced to jail for false rape claims against 2 men - TheBlaze

Essex police: Westcliff: Woman jailed over false rape claims

Virginia Giuffre and the Statute of Limitations for sex crimes

Claims of sexual harassment, other sex crimes, or rape are often very difficult to prove in the court of law especially if the incident dates back years.

What are actually the statute of limitations for such claims. I have only cursory followed the allegations against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, but it appears in such high profile cases and others the statutes of limitations have no limitations. I noticed this again and again. We are told, we have to believe these females claiming to be victims of sex crimes..

Most of Ms. Giuffre's claims were filed many years after the alleged incidents occurred.

Today, I read most of the Wikipedia entry for Virginia Giuffre (born 1983). She is married since 2002, so I presume all her sexual trafficking and related sex crime crime claims date back to before her marriage. She was reportedly associated with Mr. Eppstein between 2000-2002. 

Her life and deeds suggest that she is in some ways dubious. E.g. was she really so innocent or did she seek if not exploit these environments? E.g. was she perhaps a recruiter? Is she an opportunist?

We learn following surprising things about her from Wikipedia:

1. She is an activist for female victims of sex crimes
2. She signed at least one very lucrative non disclosure agreement
3. She "from the age of seven, was molested by a close family friend"
4. She went from "an abusive situation, to being a runaway, to living in foster homes"
5. "She lived on the streets at age 13 before getting abused by a 65-year-old sex trafficker, Ron Eppinger, in Miami. Giuffre lived with Eppinger for approximately 6 months." She did not run away this time.
6. "In March 2005, while Giuffre was still establishing her family in Australia, the Palm Beach Police Department began investigating Epstein after a 14-year-old girl and her parents reported his behavior.  The girl described being recruited by a female classmate from her high school to give Epstein a massage at his mansion in exchange for money, wherein he subsequently molested her"

Will Ms. Giuffre come out with sex crime allegations against Donald Trump next after Alan Dershowitz  and Prince Andrew? I would not be surprised: "Her father worked as a maintenance manager at the Mar-a-Lago property owned by Donald Trump, and also helped Giuffre obtain a job there.", "In the summer of 2000, Giuffre first met Ghislaine Maxwell when working as a spa attendant at Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club while reading a book about massage therapy."

P.S. I do little doubt that Ms. Giuffre is probably a troubled woman and needs help and treatment.