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Kevin Spacey cleared over all sexual assault charges (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by Dazza@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 231 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

WOW the number of people in this thread immediately jumping to the accusers being "false" and deserving jail. Because no actual sexual predator ever got away with it in court...

(Sex crimes are extraordinarily difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt because the actions are taken in private without a lot of physical evidence. Which sexual predators rely on to get away with their crimes, by the way.)

Perhaps we should review the sheer volume of young men from all over the US & UK reporting that Spacey was at best inappropriate with them. One of the youngest being 14 years old:

https://people.com/tv/kevin-spacey-controversy-timeline/

And just in case some of us need a refresher course, the rate of false rape accusations is low:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21164210/

And the rate of sexual assault is high:

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/sexualviolence/fastfact.html

[-] Internetexplorer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

So you think he's guilty, because there's no evidence proving he is?

Insanity.

[-] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I refuse to believe you're actually this stupid. There's a universe of difference between "it didn't happen" and "it couldn't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court" and you know there is.

Unless you really think OJ didn't murder his wife either

[-] capt_deez_nuts@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

I refuse to believe you're actually this stupid. You're throwing these statements as if you have first hand experience of knowing these things happened. Like were you there in person when Spacey was assaulting these people or were you a witness when OJ killed his wife? You don't wanna believe the witnesses, you don't wanna believe the jury, you don't don't wanna believe in the legal systems (cops/courts and whatever have you). But you believe in some people accusing someone of something. EVEN if they cleared themselves of these accusations.

Are you actually this ignorant to not know that all people are all not down to earth and sometimes people can and do crazy shit. Why do you think there's zero percent chance that these people were bad, but Kevin Spacey is 100 percent bad without a shadow of a doubt for seemingly just being rich?