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Why Has This Taken 9 Years To Come Out?
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ummmm: "How else do you compensate people?" - well the traditional method is to report the crime and all the details to the police, then let the judicial process run it's course then sue for damages etc on the back of a successful prosecution. Surprised you are advocating a private "keep schtumm" and here's some dosh approach ummmm.
He was never convicted of anything so her payment was not compensation it was a 'shut up' payment. Years later when the dosh has been spent she has gone to a German magazine to 'tell her story', no doubt the money earned from that story going to a suitable women's aid charity ( not!). These are not the actions of a victim.
jim: "I don't mean to imply that Ronaldo definitely did it, but, I mean... what hope is there to hold people to account for sexual assault when they actually *are* guilty if everyone instantly assumes the accuser has a sinister motive" - well normally the accuser doesn't wait 9 years, having spent the privately arranged compensation, to dig up the whole issue. That's the sort of thing that can make sensible people think there is a "sinister motive". If she's done the correct thing at the time, then we'd not be assuming by default that she is what she appears to be. Ronaldo may or may not be guilty but the accuser has done herself no favours with this action 9 years after the even.
//Just saying that's how people are compensated.//
Good Grief 'Compensation' is given after liability is decided in a Court
She was not 'Compensated', she decided to take a payment directly from Ronaldo's Lawyers in return for promising not to take the matter any further. That's what I call a Blackmail payment
Good Grief 'Compensation' is given after liability is decided in a Court
She was not 'Compensated', she decided to take a payment directly from Ronaldo's Lawyers in return for promising not to take the matter any further. That's what I call a Blackmail payment
jim: "Why must victims follow a set pattern of behaviour, any deviation from which instantly damages or destroys their credibility? " - come on you're and intelligent bloke, we all learn how things will look if not done a certain way. Whatever actually happened originally here is always going to be obscured by what happened since.
She's not the first one to accuse him. Hunt is on for a second accuser.
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If she was raped I would have expected her to see the allegation through to the bitter end - regardless of the conviction rate. Instead, she decided to take a pay-off. Presumably the pay-off was adequate enough to allay her trauma for the 9 years it took her to spend the money, and now, even though the rape conviction rates are probably broadly the same as they were 9 years ago, her trauma is such that she's breaching a contract and has now gone public with the allegation, even though in all likelihood there's about as much evidence of the rape as there is in the existence of god.
Yes all supposition - but who is to say it's not accurate.
A more cyncial person than me might think she's gone public because Ronaldo told her to do one when she tried to get more money out of him, so she's decided to ruin him.
Rape is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, and therefore I'm with Aunt Lydia on this - she's doing a massive disservice to real victims.
Yes all supposition - but who is to say it's not accurate.
A more cyncial person than me might think she's gone public because Ronaldo told her to do one when she tried to get more money out of him, so she's decided to ruin him.
Rape is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, and therefore I'm with Aunt Lydia on this - she's doing a massive disservice to real victims.
