One of the scuzziest human beings ever. And officially a rapist now.
Good.
The Notorious Rapist.
What the actual fuck kind of society let's a proven in a court of law rapist pay a financial settlement and walk free? Oh right, I forgot, we're all dead and in Hell. Silly fucking me.
In criminal court you are presumed innocent and the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that you did it
I'm not familiar with the legal system there but there's usually a different burden of prior between criminal and civil trails. Prosecutors declined to press criminal charges so it might be that there wasn't enough evidence to 100% conclusively prove that he did it.
Did he only get a financial hit or did he do jail time? I'm out of the loop.
So why haven't criminal charges been brought against him?
I'm not familiar with this specific legal system but how can a rape be tried as a civil matter?
Am I missing something, why aren't they criminal charges brought against him?
Because they wouldn't convict him due to low quality of evidence
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