Reply #3: Unfortunately, the judicial bench in the UK... [View All]

...is still filled with stuffy old men of upper-class origin, who are mentally and morally trapped in the 1950s.

Again and again, the newspapers report cases where the judge has to be informed what "text messaging" is and what "DVD recorders" do. Hardly surprising, then, that many of these men (they are overwhelmingly men) still harbor the secret belief that rape victims have it coming.

There was a case about ten years ago, in which a ten year old girl was raped by a twentysomething man (who was learning disabled to a degree but not incapable of discerning right from wrong). The man got off because the judge decided that the girl was "very sexually mature for her age and led the defendant on."

Only when Britain stops recruiting judges from the pages of Brideshead Revisited, will we see a change in the outcomes of rape cases.