[Peach]

Ditto that. This is why women don't report rape. It gets so ugly and they tear the victim down.

To the person on this thread who keeps saying Kobe is probably innocent because people don't wake up one day and decide to rape: Maybe he has raped in the past and the women haven't reported it. What we're seeing in the courtoom today is the reason why the vast majority of rapes aren't reported.

[Howlin]

Ditto that. This is why women don't report rape. It gets so ugly and they tear the victim down.

I'm asking this in all honesty: what would you have Kobe do to defend himself, especially since ANY questioning of the accuser is immediately branded as "trying to smear the accuser."

[Toespi]

I am the person who suggested that someone just doesn't wake up one morning and become a rapist. Other type of deviant behavior, such as patterns of uncontrollable rage, violence, and other anti-social behavior would be noted in a person's past prior to an episode of sexual assualt. I assure you that if Bryant has raped before, there would be women coming out of the woodwork now and frankly, there hasn't been any such reports. On the contrary, people in his past including ex-girlfriends have spoken very highly of him