What the actual fuck.
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Don't worry, that's not the real reason. The real reason is most likely that the perpetrators family is rich and the victim's family isn't.
Latest case of affluenza. He needs the Brock Turner treatment. You remember the rapist Brock Turner, right?
I actually spend quite a lot of time in Leuven these days, and looking at some of those houses and the general state of Belgium today ... I can't say that's not likely to be true.
It's just that the place kinda struck me as safe. I guess it's not.
Belgium has some of (if not the) lowest income inequality in the OECD due to our very harsh income tax (highest median tax wedge of the OECD, yes even including the nordics). With quite a few asterisks attached to that statement of course because our fiscal system is a complete mess so if you're special kinds of well off (e.g. you make your income on capital gains) you'll be taxed very little.
How low income inequality doesn't correlate to very high standards of living like it does in the Nordics... Well I'll leave it to historians and economists to hash it out. The answer you get will almost certainly reflect that person's personal politics. Harsh industrial decline is worth mentioning though.
Wallonia is measurably poorer than Flanders, but both regions are developed western economies. The US has a murder rate 535 % of Belgium's, and I don't see anyone warning students away from studying there (or well, not until the past few months).
That judge should be investigated and the prosecutor should definitely appeal, and besides there is a lot of work to do safety-wise, especially for women to be able to feel safe, but that's hardly a problem specific to Leuven or Belgium.
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Regardless of why he got suspension of penalty, if you read anything about the case it wasn't because he or his parents are rich. Personally I think there's more nuance than the clickbait headlines. I think he should not have gotten the penalty suspended but I can understand why that happened. The shortened motivation for this does read like ragebait ofcourse. His future should not have been as important as his cooperation, verifiable truthfulness and the fact he did abuse the state of someone who could not consent. Where that balance ends for punishment ends I find hard to say. But to reduce it to that he's rich is just populist nonsense.
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The conviction will not appear on the man’s criminal record. However, if he reoffends, he will be sentenced for this rape as well as for the new offence.
Why wait to be proven wrong? I don't understand. Rapists shouldn't be doctors.
Doctors get one rape...
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He was training to be a gynecologist, so definitely would rape again. Don’t wish for him to have another victim but sounds like a second offense gets him a sentence for the first one as well.
His training to be a gynecologist is irrelevant. Please do not propagate the myth that men go into gynecology to take advantage of women. If he's a rapist, that's independent.
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I remember an officer in the USCG accused of rape while I worked as a welder on base. Guy had to paint the fire lane on curbs for a month while his superiors quietly hushed up the incident so as to not disturb the guys advancement prospects (he was the kid of some higher rank admin).
I'm sure that taught him a lesson
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Translation: this guy has wealth parents and is spoiled to high heaven
At getting away with rape.
This truly is a prison planet.
And people wonder why there are vigilantes.
For any vigilante out there. This rape was performed by Dr. Ruben Vanstiphout, you can contact this bright young man with a massive future ahead at ruben.vanstiphout@uzleuven.be
If we are going to be ol fashioned then we are going to be ol fashioned.... If there is no justice we will go and find justice. We're even seeing this with the likes of Saint Luigi. People just don't understand history. FAFO
The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America David Stout
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You should try Afghanistan, it's full of vigilantes that you seem to like.
And his victim wasn't also young and talented? Are they concerned about how the victim will go on when this fucker walks back on campus?