Sunday, September 24, 2006

Turning Back the Clock on Rape

Rhonda Copelon, a professor of law at the City University of New York who was an author of the international law on rape as a war crime, says the bill also could make it impossible to prosecute rape or sexual assault as torture, because the definition of torture in the legislation requires proof of specific intent to commit the crime. Motive is very hard to prove in cases of rape or sexual assault.

I mean, you'll take all the fun out of torture if you can't rape children?

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