Miscellaneous

Well sure, if you go out boozing, you're practically begging for it

Across the pond, a 29-year-old woman was raped several years ago after someone spiked her drink. She eventually wound up before the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, some British governmental thing which apparently gives compensatory money to victims. Rape victims generally get an award of $20,928 but -- get this -- her award was cut by 25%, to $15,696, because "the evidence that we have shows that your excessive consumption of alcohol was a contributing factor in the incident."

Yup -- she was a drunk, so she was basically asking for it.

Thankfully, a higher court had some fucking common sense and overturned the decision, so the woman will get the full money.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on August 27, 2008 (boomark / email).