Summary
A 28 year old woman was send to jail for lying about the rape and violence from her husband. The pair met around 10 years ago, but after 4 years the first slap began. She lived, with her 4 children, in a violent relationship with her husband and because of this, the police were called several times. One example about the extremely violence of the husband is the moment he came back to the family home after being kicked out of it. One of the jailed woman’s sisters said: "He pulled her outside by her hair and pushed her into the garden fence, before ripping her clothes off. One of her older children later told the police he saw her run back into the house with no clothes on". He was arrested and the child and mother were interviewed, but no charges were brought.
Everyone thought there was no possibility to send her to prison, because she had no previous record of criminality and she was the main carer for her 4 young sons. Despite that they arrested her by the crime of lying to the police. And it seems unlikely her husband will ever stand trial on the rape charges: the charges against him have been dropped.
Response.
This is typically a bureaucratic case. Lying to the police about these important cases is actionable, but the offences themselves are not indictable because there are no charges against it. The court of justice is composed very dishonest in relation with some cases. The husband of the jailed woman has the right to be prosecuted, instead of the opposite. He manipulated, menaced and used violence against his wife, so she probably didn’t dare to charge him. There are no people who inspect those things, which has to happen in my opinion. I relate this to very black and white thinking.
So, the woman was abused by the husband, but the woman got arrested for lying about being abused?! That is really strange and I think the police should consider that maybe the reason why the woman lied about it, was that she was scared of what her husband would do if she told the police about it.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI agree with Wendy Dame. This should not be possible and they should have investigated the case properly. It is also scary that this can happen and it sends a wrong message to other women being abused. Maybe they are scared too, to tell the truth but now they might not even consider going to the police.
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