Apr 13, 2016
1:47:40pm
1:47:40pm
If the police are the only ones who ever hear/know about sexual assault...
...allegations, then there will be a lot of perpetrators running around from cases in which the prosecutor doesn't have enough information to go forward.
Trust me - as someone who investigated child sexual abuse - you would be surprised at the number of times something "probably" happened, but the amount of evidence didn't reach the level that would allow a jury to reach a guilty verdict. Preponderance of evidence and even clear and convincing evidence are both easier standards to reach than the beyond a reasonable doubt standard.
It was pretty common for the state to take someone to juvenile court on civil charges and require treatment or protection for a child based on the civil standard even when there were not criminal charges because there wasn't the evidence to support them.
Trust me - as someone who investigated child sexual abuse - you would be surprised at the number of times something "probably" happened, but the amount of evidence didn't reach the level that would allow a jury to reach a guilty verdict. Preponderance of evidence and even clear and convincing evidence are both easier standards to reach than the beyond a reasonable doubt standard.
It was pretty common for the state to take someone to juvenile court on civil charges and require treatment or protection for a child based on the civil standard even when there were not criminal charges because there wasn't the evidence to support them.
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It sounds horrible. But I'll wait to hear something from a credible source before I give my opinion.
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They didn't report a crime. They spent several months finding cases at BYU who were willing to voice
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In sum, I'm waiting for more info to come out on a heated issue. You reached a conclusion before this story came out
4/13/16 10:36am
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this is complex - I'm undecided. But you're saying - do drugs and get raped then you get to stay in school. Do drugs
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the problem though is that if we kick her out of school then no girl in her situation would report the rape and the
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in a false accusation case at least it gets to a hearing - in a "you're kicked out of school guarantee" then the rapist
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the reality is this - if you expel her - she won't report and the rapist stays on campus and goes unpunished. It's a
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so let God judge. the question is.... is it a good policy to expel a girl who reports her rape and admits to an honor
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