Rape claim (Walking into the wrong room lands man a rape charge)

The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 21 2006 | BRAD CLIFTON

[jmc1969]

A MAN who claims he mistakenly had sex with "the wrong woman" after entering a dark bedroom at the home of a Sydney magazine editor was yesterday committed to stand trial for rape.

Paul John Chappell, 31, was invited back to the editor's Bondi flat after they met during a night out. The pair went to bed and Chappell later got up to use the bathroom. But Chappell claims he mistakenly returned to the wrong bedroom, where the editor's 23-year-old flatmate was asleep.

He got into bed with the flatmate and initiated sex, allegedly believing she was the other woman. The flatmate participated because she thought it was her own boyfriend who had come to bed after falling asleep in the loungeroom. When she turned on the light, the "hysterical" woman saw Chappell in her bed and realised her boyfriend was still asleep on the couch.

"He thought he was having sex with the person he went home with. "The (alleged victim) says she believed she was having sex with her boyfriend. She made a mistake as to who she was having sex with and so did the defendant."

[kenth]

To be honest, it wasn't merely walking into the wrong room that got him charged...

[cyborg]

Watering down the defintion doesn't help those who are rape victims at all. This is one of the reasons I never brought my abusers to trial. I had a secret fear that no one would believe me.

[yarddog]

Sounds like something George Costanza would do.

[Jeff Chandler]

Movie title: Four Sluts and a Rape Charge

[robertpaulsen]

"She made a mistake as to who she was having sex with and so did the defendant."

And that's their story and they're stickin' to it.

[nuconvert]

"She made a mistake as to who she was having sex with and so did the defendant."


A likely story.........

[manwiththehands]

This is absurd! You mean to tell me that neither one could tell that they were not having sex with their normal "sex partner"? Riiiiiiiiight

[Quick Shot]

Let me get this right.... The screaming started after the sex???? Rapes: thought it was before and during.....

[Jeff Chandler]

Watering down the defintion doesn't help those who are rape victims at all.

This doesn't sound like rape. The slut didn't even bother to look at who she was having sex with.

[Red Badger]

I guess there were no minute differences between one guy and the next as long as the lights were out.......

[RMDupree]

And that's their story and they're stickin' to it.

My thoughts exactly.

[Cementjungle]

This is absurd! You mean to tell me that neither one could tell that they were not having sex with their normal "sex partner"? Riiiiiiiiight

Really. It doesn't sound even remotely possible to me.

[Red Badger]

It must have been VERY VERY dark in that room.......

[America's Resolve]

She made a mistake as to who she was having sex with and so did the defendant."

SO if they both made a "mistake", how come he's the only one facing a rape charge????

[xroadie]

Sounds like a few pints of "neck oil" were involved in this!

[opinionator]

I guess sometimes 'Yes' means 'No'.

[isthisnickcool]

PARIS: "I believe all of this! I like, you know, got out of bed, you know, and was looking for the bathroom because I had eaten a Cheeto and needed to barf it up but I got lost in the dark, you know. Then I accidently got in to bed with the Dallas Mavericks and had sex, you know. It was all a simple misunderstanding because I had just got out of bed with the Detroit Pistons and I really thought I was back with them! Believe me, this kind of stuff happens to me all the time!"

[absolootezer0]

SO if they both made a "mistake", how come he's the only one facing a rape charge????

dumb question. the guy is always guilty. (according to courts, feminazis, politicians, etc)

[jpl]

ROFL. This magazine editor has a boyfriend, but she decides to invite some stranger that she just met in a bar to come over to her place and spend the night in a different bedroom, and ends up having sex with him by "mistake"?

Whatever.