We are also now in an era where with respect to sexual offenses, there is no statute of limitations. As we saw a few weeks ago with that Scientologist actor getting a virtual life sentence for crimes committed, I forget exactly when but something like 30 years earlier. How on earth can a privileged male defendant prove to a hostile jury pool in the me-too era that there was consent some random date two decades earlier? The statutes of limitation existed in the context of rape for very good reasons. (And they were mainly eliminated so that the plaintiffs’ lawyers could cash in on civil molestation cases against churches and Boy Scouts where many of the alleged molesters were already long dead, rendering the cases even less defensible).
A guy from my high school kidnapped a woman, beat her, raped her, and threw her into the street naked.
A couple hours later he did the same thing to another woman.
He served 5 years.
Danny Masterson got 30 years for a 20 year old he said, she said.
No evidence in the least.
I think it’s meant to serve notice. “We can do this to anyone, anytime, for anything.”