Someone clearly never watched the TV series, where the whole thing is very spelled out. Even if you don't take that as canon, the first games make reference to Mewtwo being an escaped genetic experiment.
News: Man Tortures and Rapes a woman over four days in Redcliffe. He subjected her to systematic abuse, including punching and urinating on her, threatening her with knives and a meat cleaver, and sexually abusing her with a baseball bat
Somewhat odd: During the period of the abuse, they also had consensual sex once.
Total WTF - During the period of the abuse, the also had what the Judge describes as "Bizarre consensual socialising", where they did things such as Host a barbecue, and play board games, after which, the abuse resumed.
Double edit - Now observe this thread dissolve into postulation as to which games they were and were not playing.
(As a pure nitpicky little thing about the article - Redcliffe is only part of Brisbane for certain statistical measurements due to conurbation - essentially, cities sprawling enough that they start to physically merge in places, however, it's a separate city about 30 Kilometres north of the Brisbane CBD area, with it's own council - the Moreton Bay Regional Council, the third largest state government behind Brisbane and Gold Coast - transport and sanitation services, and so on.)
Somewhat odd: During the period of the abuse, they also had consensual sex once.
Total WTF - During the period of the abuse, the also had what the Judge describes as "Bizarre consensual socialising", where they did things such as Host a barbecue, and play board games, after which, the abuse resumed.
Hm. Interesting situation. I think the article is lacking on crucial details that would clarify this.
I could see someone agreeing to do things under duress, but that doesn't constitute consent. It's possible that the article got that part wrong and that this woman was a prisoner who did whatever her captor wanted in order to spare her life. However, if that's not the case, then the consensual activities don't make any sense. Could be a case of irrational emotional attachment making someone do weird things; I've known a couple of battered wives who kept taking their husbands back.
It's also possible that the whole scenario was actual consensual, and that this is the result of, say, nosy neighbors. However, that wouldn't explain the rape charge or the guilty pleas.
It's also possible that this started off as negotiated edge play, and eventually progressed to the point where one person wanted to stop and the other didn't. I've read cases of one party in a BDSM "contract" attempting to actually enforce the contract against the will of the other party. Those situations don't end well for anyone. This is possibly a setup like that.
So, I reserve judgment until there are more details.
It's such a grey area though, because in that case the victim may persist I having sympathy for their captor after the fact. The woman may very well be convinced that certain actions were consensual and there's no real way to prove otherwise if that's the case.
It's such a grey area though, because in that case the victim may persist I having sympathy for their captor after the fact. The woman may very well be convinced that certain actions were consensual and there's no real way to prove otherwise if that's the case.
I think a qualified psychologist could provide testimony as to the level of psychological trauma endured, and that could suffice to demonstrate the magnitude of the crime. I can see how it could be tough, though. If the person in question never presses charges, then the situation is sort of moot. Still, this is sort of like the use of lethal force in self-defense; if you kill someone in self-defense, you're OK, but if you only maim them, you can be sued. It seems a little wonky that you could be charged for assault and abuse, but not for excessive assault and abuse. What message does that send? If you're going to abuse and rape your partner, make sure you fuck 'em up real good so they don't press charges?
I guess the question is how this arrest came about. Did the woman call the cops? If so, I think that pretty much takes care of the Stockholm Syndrome problem. If it was someone else, then this situation is very, very muddy.
So as one of the smaller ventures that my boss undertakes is selling stuff on the internet. I were asked by a manager, at the start of the year, to see if we could add in one of those little "Can I Help You?" live chat things on one of the websites.
I say sure and had a foss solution installed by the end of the day, emailed out all the user names and passwords and such.
I heard nothing for months.
Then I get called into the CEO's office with a stern "We should be doing this live chat thing, why arn't we doing it?". So I calmly explained that, yes in fact this feature was already on the website but had only ever been used by myself.
CEO: "Didn't you tell anyone else?"
me: "Yes, I sent out emails with the appropriate log in information and I received receipts from everyone that they opened the email."
Manager: "I must not have gotten it ..."
Me: "Well here is my email and here are the read receipts for everyone including Manager ... "
So I sent out the email once again and once again with in a few minutes I received receipt that he opened the email, I asked him if he got it afterwards to which he replied yes.
Many more months pass, until today.
I get an email saying we should subscribe to this service that will run a live chat on the website for us.
Manager: "It will let us send a message to someone who's on our site so we can be proactive about leads."
Me: "So will the software we have installed already, and it's free."
Manager: "Really?"
Me: "Well you've never logged into it so it is understandable you don't know how it works."
Manager: "Could you send me the login information for it?"
Me: "Yes, I'll send you the email, again."
I want to take bets on if he'll bring this up again in a few more months.
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Edit: Double-checked that I was right: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mewtwo_(Pokémon)#In_the_games
Somewhat odd: During the period of the abuse, they also had consensual sex once.
Total WTF - During the period of the abuse, the also had what the Judge describes as "Bizarre consensual socialising", where they did things such as Host a barbecue, and play board games, after which, the abuse resumed.
Double edit - Now observe this thread dissolve into postulation as to which games they were and were not playing.
(As a pure nitpicky little thing about the article - Redcliffe is only part of Brisbane for certain statistical measurements due to conurbation - essentially, cities sprawling enough that they start to physically merge in places, however, it's a separate city about 30 Kilometres north of the Brisbane CBD area, with it's own council - the Moreton Bay Regional Council, the third largest state government behind Brisbane and Gold Coast - transport and sanitation services, and so on.)
I could see someone agreeing to do things under duress, but that doesn't constitute consent. It's possible that the article got that part wrong and that this woman was a prisoner who did whatever her captor wanted in order to spare her life. However, if that's not the case, then the consensual activities don't make any sense. Could be a case of irrational emotional attachment making someone do weird things; I've known a couple of battered wives who kept taking their husbands back.
It's also possible that the whole scenario was actual consensual, and that this is the result of, say, nosy neighbors. However, that wouldn't explain the rape charge or the guilty pleas.
It's also possible that this started off as negotiated edge play, and eventually progressed to the point where one person wanted to stop and the other didn't. I've read cases of one party in a BDSM "contract" attempting to actually enforce the contract against the will of the other party. Those situations don't end well for anyone. This is possibly a setup like that.
So, I reserve judgment until there are more details.
I guess the question is how this arrest came about. Did the woman call the cops? If so, I think that pretty much takes care of the Stockholm Syndrome problem. If it was someone else, then this situation is very, very muddy.
I say sure and had a foss solution installed by the end of the day, emailed out all the user names and passwords and such.
I heard nothing for months.
Then I get called into the CEO's office with a stern "We should be doing this live chat thing, why arn't we doing it?". So I calmly explained that, yes in fact this feature was already on the website but had only ever been used by myself.
CEO: "Didn't you tell anyone else?"
me: "Yes, I sent out emails with the appropriate log in information and I received receipts from everyone that they opened the email."
Manager: "I must not have gotten it ..."
Me: "Well here is my email and here are the read receipts for everyone including Manager ... "
So I sent out the email once again and once again with in a few minutes I received receipt that he opened the email, I asked him if he got it afterwards to which he replied yes.
Many more months pass, until today.
I get an email saying we should subscribe to this service that will run a live chat on the website for us.
Manager: "It will let us send a message to someone who's on our site so we can be proactive about leads."
Me: "So will the software we have installed already, and it's free."
Manager: "Really?"
Me: "Well you've never logged into it so it is understandable you don't know how it works."
Manager: "Could you send me the login information for it?"
Me: "Yes, I'll send you the email, again."
I want to take bets on if he'll bring this up again in a few more months.
/sigh