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Chelsea addressed this in her post if you had read it. "I have worked with legal counsel throughout this entire process. I have strongly considered the idea of

by xref 9y ago

Chelsea addressed this in her post if you had read it. "I have worked with legal counsel throughout this entire process. I have strongly considered the idea of seeking criminal charges in Germany against Jacob, but initiating lengthy legal proceedings in another country which I am neither a citizen nor a resident is a significant barrier for me. That said, I would gladly discuss this with any interested German authority and would be willing to testify in any court of law about this crime without hesitation."

mpweiher 9y ago
That’s not addressing it. At all. Rape is serious crime. It is therefore an ‘Offizialdelikt’, which means that it must be prosecuted if the Staatsanwaltschaft knows about it, and once they know about it, it becomes their case. Not pursuing this through the criminal justice system because you can’t be bothered, but instead resorting to public defamation instead is at best fishy, because in the context of an Offizialdelikt, the distinction she draws doesn’t make sense.
- belorn 9y ago
  To clarify (if necessary), its the distinction between criminal vs civil case. Rape is prosecuted by the state on the initiate of the state. The victim do not "initiating lengthy legal proceedings", they only report the crime to the police and the dedicated prosecutor for sexual violence crime is responsible to take it from there. A victim of such crimes have a right to be heard, right to get support, and the right to receive compensation from the accused if they are found guilty. The victim is not required to testify and the accused can still be found guilty. In some cases it happen that the victim rescinds their version and the prosecutor still continue to go forward with the case. That can't happen in civil cases but it can in criminal.

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Chelsea addressed this in her post if you had read it. "I have worked with legal counsel throughout this entire process. I have strongly considered the idea of

by xref 9y ago

mpweiher 9y ago
That’s not addressing it. At all. Rape is serious crime. It is therefore an ‘Offizialdelikt’, which means that it must be prosecuted if the Staatsanwaltschaft knows about it, and once they know about it, it becomes their case. Not pursuing this through the criminal justice system because you can’t be bothered, but instead resorting to public defamation instead is at best fishy, because in the context of an Offizialdelikt, the distinction she draws doesn’t make sense.
- belorn 9y ago
  To clarify (if necessary), its the distinction between criminal vs civil case. Rape is prosecuted by the state on the initiate of the state. The victim do not "initiating lengthy legal proceedings", they only report the crime to the police and the dedicated prosecutor for sexual violence crime is responsible to take it from there. A victim of such crimes have a right to be heard, right to get support, and the right to receive compensation from the accused if they are found guilty. The victim is not required to testify and the accused can still be found guilty. In some cases it happen that the victim rescinds their version and the prosecutor still continue to go forward with the case. That can't happen in civil cases but it can in criminal.