Posted on 03/13/2019 1:14:42 PM PDT by Beave Meister
ROME - Italy’s Justice Ministry has ordered a preliminary inquiry into an appeals court ruling that overturned a rape verdict in part by arguing that the woman who was attacked was too ugly to be a credible rape victim.
The ruling has sparked outrage in Italy, prompting a flash mob Monday outside the Ancona court, where protesters shouted “Shame!” and held up signs saying “indignation.”
The appeals sentence was handed down in 2017 — by an all-female panel — but the reasons behind it only emerged publicly when Italy’s high court annulled it on March 5 and ordered a retrial. The Court of Cassation said Wednesday its own reasons for ordering the retrial will be issued next month.
Two Peruvian men were initially convicted of the 2015 rape of a Peruvian woman in Ancona, but the Italian appeals court overturned the verdict and absolved them, finding that she was not a credible witness. In part of the ruling, the court noted that the suspects had found her unattractive and too “masculine” to be a credible rape victim.
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I heard Rush talking about this today.
No wonder Islamists love Italy.
Some men like ugly women.
Are the rapists too stupid to be hung?
She can’t be uglier than a camel. There’s no accounting for Muslim tastes.
Moochell? The Ol’ package defense.
I been to Italy recently, I heard about since underhanded crap that goes on there but damn this insane, what the heck are the Italians smoking?
She’s so ugly two guys broke into her apartment, and she cried “Rape”, and they screamed “NOOOO!”
Rodney Dangerfield
Lemme guess, she migrated to Dearborn Michigan and became the latest Member of the House of Representatives from that district last fall?
Or was that Minnesota?
She’s Peruvian not Italian....
I suppose if the perps were well-heeled, jurors could have been threatened and/or bribed...
There’s no picture of the woman in-question. Any reason why that might be>?
by an all-female panel —...........................
So? So were the perps. Clearly you can get away with heinous sexual assault in Italy. Islamists will go gaga for that. And there are more of them in Italy at the moment, I suspect, than pervy Peruvians.
Here’s the real kicker -
“The appeals sentence was handed down in 2017 — by an all-female panel...”
Shoot, I’m an Appalachian-American. I just close my eyes and pretend it is my sister.
It’s hanged, not hung. The difference is important.
Is this known as the “Hillary Defense”?
Charlie: “They said you was hung.”
Bart: “And they was right.”
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