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Originally Posted by MonsterCosmonaut
I think the entire thing would be sorted if the police detained both parties, and kept their identities totally secret. The court etc would be done in secret, and if the man's innocent, it doesn't go on his record and his name isn't published. It's better for both people that way.
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This I agree with - it's almost at the stage now where it's better (if such a word can be used) to be wrongly accused of murder and found innocent than to be wrongly accused of rape or sexual assault and found innocent. That doesn't make sense when you consider both murder and rape carry life sentences, so the reaction should be the same. Murder isn't exactly a pleasant business either after all. Anyway, as I was saying, anonymity would certainly be an improvement, although I hesitate at the secret court bit as that starts to introduce problems of its own - the better approach is to have reporting restrictions and restrictions on the public gallery like they do in youth court. That may well be what you meant in which case I apologise and agree, but I figured it's worth clarifying the difference.