Police officer cleared of rape charges against women because of old bullshit photo

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/flo...d-photo-of-victim-posing-in-similar-position/

Florida cop cleared of rape charges after defense uses old photo of victim posing in ‘similar’ position

A former Florida police officer walked out of court a free man after a jury cleared him Tuesday of raping a woman on the hood of his patrol car, the Sun Sentinel reports. The defense had presented a photograph of the woman in high school posing with a car and argued it was a “strikingly similar position” to her alleged rape.

Stephen Maiorino, 36, a former Boyton Beach police officer, had been accused of forcing the woman to have oral sex with him then taking her to an abandoned field where he raped her on the hood of his car while on duty. The jury deliberated for 10 hours before clearing him, prompting the victim to leave the court room in tears, saying, “No, no!”

The Sentinel reports the case hinged on the credibility of the 21-year-old woman. Maiorino’s defense said he simply had the bad judgment to have consensual sex with the woman while on duty. Maiorino is married with two small children and had been on the police force for eight years before resigning.

Michael Salnick, Maiorino’s attorney, used as evidence a picture of the woman in high school, where she posed bent over the hood of a car with her hands behind her back which he said was “strikingly similar” to the one the woman found herself in at the alleged crime scene. The woman said the photo didn’t have any sexual overtones and didn’t hint at any cop car sex fantasy, the Sentinel reports.

Now I've said quite often that there's a lot of false rape accusations and feminists would love to throw due process out of the window, and it is a tragedy that we keep finding convicted rapists who are actually NOT rapists and who get exonerated by DNA evidence (mostly black men, mind you)

but this is clearly NOT one of those examples.

This cop got acquitted based on some bullshit old photos of a girl posing with a car. This shit is a legitimate example of what feminists are complaining about. Everyone should be complaining about this.

You see, aside from the total bullshit nature of the defense's argument, there's a second actual reason why this police officer should be going to jail:

INSTITUTIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT

Remember this case? A woman has sex with an 18 year old man but it's illegal because she has authority over him (she's a teacher). And if I recall correctly, he wasn't even a student in her class at the time they had sex.

If THIS is institutional sexual assault, then a police officer, on duty, having sex with a woman, is definitely institutional sexual assault.

This is utter bullshit that in 2015 we still have courtrooms allowing "old photos of a girl posing by a car" to be admissible in a rape trial. And America needs some consistency over its "institutional sexual assault" laws, too. It's either totally illegal for someone in authority to fuck someone under their charge, or it's not. Which is it, America?