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03-06-2020 10:22 AM |
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Originally Posted by Niamh.
(Post 10854664)
What a creepy law though, it's so clear that it's there just so the guards can abuse their prisoners with no repercussions. What a world we live in
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It's not actually a law, more the absense of a law, that's the problem. Obviously consensual sex between adults is generally legal, but where there's a power imbalance there SHOULD be regulations and laws in place - because the person in power can claim consent, and also because the position of power opens up a whole mess of coercion possibilities (to be crude; "suck me off and you can go home right now with a warning, say no and you'll be charged and in up in court."). Pressured consent obviously is not consent, but it becomes impossible to prove.
A law precluding sex with a detainee removes a lot of that possibility; if the victim can show that ANYTHING happened for ANY reason, verbal consent or not, the officer has broken the law.
They could argue that it's an oversight I suppose but the fact that that law DOES exist in many countries, and in about 1/3 of US states, means they're aware of the possibility but have chosen not to implement a law. That part is pretty creepy.
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