- PARIS (Reuters) - France's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that women
cannot commit the crime of rape because they cannot sexually penetrate
men.
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- ``The material element of the crime of
rape is only realised if the perpetrator commits the act of sexual penetration
on the person of the victim,'' it said in its judgment.
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- The court, known as the Cour de Cassation,
overturned a lower court ruling that Catherine Maillard could be tried
for rape on charges of forcing her underage stepson to have sex with her
repeatedly between 1986 and 1992.
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- Maillard could only be tried for ``aggravated
sexual aggression'' against the boy, while his father Michel Deloisy had
to be tried for ``moral abandonment of a child'' instead of the original
charge of ``complicity in aggravated rape,'' the court said.
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- With its judgment, the court seemed to
contradict an earlier ruling it issued in December 1997 saying that forcing
someone to perform oral sex act was legally equivalent to rape.
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- Rebuttal
By Dave Matt
<mektankr@atinet.net>
10-22-98
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- After Reading this article all of the humor that had
welled up inside of me came gushing out. I laughed for nearly and hour.
Women in France cannot be accused of rape. Don't get me wrong ladies,
rape is not a funny thing. The thought of the French Supreme Court ruling
that women cannot be charged for rape is laughable. The reason is hysterical,
"because women do not have a sex organ capable of penetration".
Most modern governments have proved that women can rape. Whether it is
men or women...they CAN rape. So, what happens if a group of women force
sex on a young male or another woman? This is the same government that
stated it would not extradite a man who murdered a woman here in the U.S.
because they (French SuCrt) did not have enough evidence to bring the murderer
to trial and extradite him. This is the same country that harbors disdain
for Americans.
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- I will say this: while stationed in Germany I had the
opportunity to go to Paris on leave. While walking the walkway to the Eiffel
Tower, my guide and I noticed a man slapping his wife. I proceded to her
aide as my guide tried to keep me from helping. As I got to the incident
a police officer arrived and pointed his baton at me and then down the
walkway as a "go away" gesture.
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- I shook my head and walked away with my guide who was
listening to the conversation. As it turns out, the police officer yelled
at the woman for not "obeying" her husbands wishes. Also some
of you may know about the famous French actor who was in the news several
years ago because someone found out he raped several women at the age of
16 in France. Well, the French courts deemed the women "hooker-like"
and gave this actor a slap on the wrist. Crime pays in France.
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- Dave Matt
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