Date Rape

The discrepancy between the total number of rapes, the number of rapes reported to the police and the conviction rate is striking and should be reduced. However, there are other reasons for this which this proposal does nothing to solve. Many rape cases are unprovable without forensic evidence such as semen samples, which may be unavailable by the time the crime is reported, so that the cases sadly but rightly never get to court. Many raped women simply want to forget what has happened and move on- something which is not easy to combine with pursuing a prosecution given the length and stress of court proceedings. Many are put off pursuing prosecutions because of the trauma of having to describe their experiences in court and of undergoing hostile cross-examination by the evidence.

Rape is Rape and they should be put behind bars just like any other Rapiest.....