Cathy McCulloch writes that as of last week, she hadn’t read Fifty Shades of Grey. The barrister is intimately familiar with portions of it now, however, due to a case that she describes as “exceptional” in a blog post spotted by the Independent.
Her client was a father charged with eight counts of incestuous rape that allegedly occurred over a six-year period; he “had absolutely no real defense other than ‘I did not do it.'” His daughter, on the other hand, had given a “compelling interview” to police, explaining in detail what had allegedly occurred.
There was just one thing that nagged at McCulloch: “the use of certain words, phrases, and descriptions of how she felt which seemed beyond her years.” Then her client mentioned his daughter’s favorite book (which he was unfamiliar with): Fifty Shades of Grey.
An instructing solicitor on the case who also had not previously read it picked up a copy and uncovered “too many striking similarities” between the girl’s statement and the novel.
McCulloch analyzed the passages and the girl’s interview as part of her cross-examination preparations. On the trial’s third day, the girl took the stand, and McCulloch began “gently.”
Just seven minutes later — during which McCulloch brought up those striking similarities — “we were finished.” The girl admitted she had made up the allegations to teach her “strict” father a lesson.
The prosecutor re-examined the girl and she confirmed that it had all been a lie. An immediate acquittal followed.
This article originally appeared on Newser: Dad Accused of Raping Daughter Saved by Mention of 50 Shades
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confused
Seriously? girl is messed up. What she didn’t get a new i phone or a horse? I hate it when girls do this. It makes every girl who IS being abused to afraid to say anything.
Rich
Of course, a female can always cry wolf for everything but if a male does it we are wrong. They should teach her a lesson. She’s crazy in the head and needs to be examined
Shocked Humano
There you go men… Don’t have kids! From the mouths of babes into the lion’s den you will go! And don’t think they’ll look after you when you are old either… They’re going to want you to pay for their education, their cars, their rent, and when they mess up, you’ll have to take them back in where you live and they’ll eat all your food and not even pick up after themselves. You’ll be begging to go to a nursing home by the time your kids are done with you!
This child knew what she was doing, she wanted to punish her father. I doubt she’d care that he would getting gang raped in prison every single time an opportunity presented itself (with the compliance of the guards) if he had been convicted of sexually assaulting a child. She’d probably laugh about it. She would never care to visit him, and it would not be allowed anyway.
That guy better just cede custody to his ex-wife and go his own way… MGTOW! It’s like nazi Germany when your own kids would turn you in for being kind to a Jew or a Gypsy.
john smith
One of the key tenets of MGTOW is that the legal crucifixion a man exposes himself to by any interaction with a female makes any interaction fail a risk/reward analysis. Every female knows (thanks VAWA) that she can destroy any man at any time at her whim.
Lack of evidence, and more importantly lack of investigation, does not stop the state from prosecuting the innocent for political posturing. This man is out tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars and his reputation and community standing is forever stained and neither can ever be recovered. MGTOW is the only answer for a man in a world consumed with feminism and witch hunt hysteria.