Posted on 07/27/2010 6:17:50 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
In wake of Jerusalem conviction, U.S. legal experts weigh-in
NEW YORK — If you get a girl to sleep with you by claiming you run a billion dollar hedge fund and drive a Maserati, when you're really more of a used Ford Escort kind of guy, can you be prosecuted for rape?
Last week, an Arab Israeli man was sentenced to prison for telling a woman in Jerusalem he was a Jewish bachelor in order to get her to sleep with him. He was convicted on a charge of “rape by deception.”
Could a similar prosecution take place here in the Unites States? And if so, just what would constitute rape by deception?
Legal experts say those who lie in the course of courtship are unlikely to face jail time — most U.S. states don't have rape by fraud laws, and even in those that do, prosecutions are extremely rare.
But in recent years, there have been attempts to broaden rape laws in order to deal with this complicated and controversial issue.
In 2008, Mass. State House Rep. Peter Koutoujian helped craft rape by fraud legislation after the state's Supreme Judicial Court said it could not rule on two rape cases because of the state’s rigid definition of rape as involving both force and non-consent.
In one case, a man from Westfield, Mass., was accused of rape after he allegedly impersonated his brother in order to have sex with his brother’s girlfriend in the middle of the night. The sex was consensual, but the court ruled that “intercourse where consent is achieved by fraud does not constitute rape.”
In the other, a pharmacist named Nicholas Creanza allegedly posed as a gynecologist in order to give exams to two consenting women in Springfield, Mass. The court ruled that
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Lol! You must be kidding! THAT was an entirely different world when men knew they would be seen as bums or worse for sleeping with a girl or getting her pregnant and leaving. Judging by the smart ass responses on this thread, I wonder where that mentality has gone.
Gee I could be broke if this applied too my younger years... I used ever pick up line I could think of. And most the time they worked.:o]
LOL Randall.. love the comment
thanks for keeping us all together now and then at least for reading some articles of interest
3 times Wow, you told a lot of lies didn’t ya?!
/LOL
Muslim men are circumcised.
Reminds me of an old joke.
90 year old man tries to rape a 16 year old girl.
The charge?
Assault with a Dead Weapon
FORNICATION, crim. law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of an unmarried person with another, whether the latter be married or unmarried. When the party is married, the offence, as to him or her, is known by the name of adultery. (q. v.) Fornication is, however, included in every case of adultery, as a larceny is included in robbery. 2 Hale's P. C. 302.Rape? Fraud? No, the crime is formication!
If the man had become engaged to the woman (or vice versa) by a fraudulent pretext, then fraud.
How silly our modern law is! That it tosses off old wise and simple laws for new 'improved' and complicated idiocies that provide no safe markers for the perplexed.
A nymphomaniac is a women who likes sex as much as a man so, therefore, you can't be one.
... two years into our marriage... she’s cold as a dead fish......good thing we both enjoy fishing................
And that my friend is necrophilia. :-)
Every time I said; “I love you”.
Oye Vey was code for /s
Ah. Missed it. Sorry.
I was just joking because you posted it three times. ;D
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