Comments on: Wednesday briefs https://www.yourish.com/2010/07/28/11671 Cutting straight to the point Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:49:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Yannai https://www.yourish.com/2010/07/28/11671/comment-page-1#comment-41022 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:49:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=11671#comment-41022 Empress – my problem with it is that he wasn’t convicted for running a scam – it’s that he was convicted of *rape*. That’s wrong. The sleaze lied to her and deceived her to get what he wanted, then abandoned her the second he did, but that’s. Not. Rape. To say otherwise would be to cheapen the genuine suffering rape victims go through. The woman agreed to have sex. No one forced her or coerced her. Yes, she agreed under false information, but that doesn’t make it “retroactive rape”. Or is every man (or woman for that matter) who fib to get into someone else’s pants a rapist as well?

Yes, he was running a scam, and if he should be convicted of anything it should be of that, but I don’t even know how someone *could* be convicted for something like this, since unlike your example, he didn’t walk away with any of her belongings.

]]> By: Empress Trudy https://www.yourish.com/2010/07/28/11671/comment-page-1#comment-41021 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:24:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=11671#comment-41021 I must be one of the few who side with the Israeli courts with this one. A crime by deception is still a crime. If this guy is innocent then so is the scam artist who takes $87,000 dollars from the nice old lady to prune her trees.

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