How do we know who's the accused and who's the victim if they're counter-accusing one another?
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How do we know who's the accused and who's the victim if they're counter-accusing one another?
Stoning would be far too good for this hypocrite, pete. She should stand as a warning to all those who piled on the movement without proof of fact to be up their claims. I'm wondering now about the real reason behind Bourdain's suicide.
Asia Argento, a #MeToo Leader, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser
The Italian actress and director Asia Argento was among the first women in the movie business to publicly accuse the producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. She became a leading figure in the #MeToo movement. Her boyfriend, the culinary television star Anthony Bourdain, eagerly joined the fight.
But in the months that followed her revelations about Mr. Weinstein last October, Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy Bennett, a young actor and rock musician who said she had sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room years earlier, when he was only two months past his 17th birthday. She was 37. The age of consent in California is 18.
That claim and the subsequent arrangement for payments are laid out in documents between lawyers for Ms. Argento and Mr. Bennett, a former child actor who once played her son in a movie.
The documents, which were sent to The New York Times through encrypted email by an unidentified party, include a selfie dated May 9, 2013, of the two lying in bed. As part of the agreement, Mr. Bennett, who is now 22, gave the photograph and its copyright to Ms. Argento, now 42. Three people familiar with the case said the documents were authentic.
The Times has tried repeatedly since Thursday to get a response to the matter from Ms. Argento and her representatives. She did not reply to messages left on her phone, sent by email and sent to two of her agents, who agreed to forward it to her. Carrie Goldberg, her lawyer who handled the matter, read email messages from The Times, according to two people familiar with the case, but she has not responded. A woman who answered the phone at Ms. Goldberg’s office on Friday said the lawyer would not be available to discuss this article.
More: www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/asia-argento-assault-jimmy-bennett.html
A perfect example of why rape cases should be tried under an inquisitorial system and without rape-shield laws to ensure that any accused can fully defend himself.
I'm not saying she sexually assaulted him and then accused him of sexually assaulting her, and it may very well be true that she sexually assaulted him and Weinstein then assaulted her: the two aren't mutually exclusive, and research does show that victims of abuse (both male and female) often do abuse in their turn. However, given the tendency for politicians to promote the Duluth model (an explicitly sexist model that assumes that the male is always the abuser and the female the victim) in the justice system, and given how I know of at least one case of an accuser being counter-accused by her alleged attacker, we need to ensure adequate protection for the accused.
I know how difficult it is to prove sexual assault beyond reasonable doubt and I can certainly empathize with the victims, but the solution is not to water down the burden of proof to create even more victims: that's what mental-health services are for.
Alcohol withdrawal?
He may have been talking to himself about something else he said?
Seeing the lack of any elaboration, I think you might be right. We could be wrong though, so I'll await his response.
lol, very possible. Ummm that's why I streamlined my post after you quoted it...
to give us options.
I have a feeling you were right though.
