‘Focus on perpetrators’: Rape regulation primarily based on consent ‘could be a distraction, place burden on sufferer’ | EUROtoday

As the French Parliament debates including the notion of consent to the penal code, Genie Godula welcomes Cécile SIMMONS, Researcher on the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Her focus is on misogyny and gender-based violence. Ms. Simmons is Author of “Ctrl Hate Delete: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It”. As it stands, the speed of prosecution stands at 5%, she explains, and “the victims will see the abusers walk free.” Ms. Simmons warns that “by shifting to a consent-based definition, we will censor the victim and place the burden of proving violence on the victim.” She sees it as a “distraction” and asserts that will probably be far more efficient to “focus on the perpetrators.”
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