sephardic-male wrote:
if you are going to report somebody for rape why not go to the police and make a criminal compliant and press charges?
GO TO THE POLICE if you are going to report a rape or any other violent criminal activities
what about the rights of people to face their accusers?
You are male, right? At least that's what I gather from your nickname.
Would you go to the police if you were raped, not knowing if they would ever catch the guy? Knowing you would have to go to court to describe yourself being raped? You have to admit it's not that easy. Now imagine a female teenager who grew in a very catholic home. How shameful would she feel? Imagine now a muslim girl. She can be killed just by saying she was raped. It's not an easy subject. At all!
I don't pretend to have the answers. But I do see that this is very, very hard to deal with.
PS: Sephardic jews are from Portugal or Spain, right? Or at least have ancestors there? I'm portuguese and have somewhat of a fascination with jewish culture.