Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C.

Re:Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C. by rhdoenges on Thursday March 14, 2013 @03:54PM (#5377301)

So when an otherwise upstanding man brutally rapes a vulnerable woman, it's his word against hers? Rape is almost always perpetrated from a position of power. That's why most rapes are committed by men against women.

That aside, they caught the incident on camera, so it is not one person's word against another's: http://dcist.com/2012/12/uber_customer_accuses_driver_of_rap...

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Re:Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C. by tomp on Thursday March 14, 2013 @05:04PM (#5377669)

> So when an otherwise upstanding man brutally rapes a vulnerable woman, it's his word against hers?

Unless there are witnesses or evidence (e.g. camera, sperm, bruises, ...), then, yes, obviously. What else have you got?

But, my intention was simply to demonstrate gender bias by considering two men in a similar situation, the word of a reputable man against the word of a less reputable man. I guess I've demonstrated it...

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Re:Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C. by warfangle on Thursday March 14, 2013 @06:23PM (#5378040)

>That's why most reported rapes are committed by men against women.

FTFY.

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Re:Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C. by simcop2387 on Thursday March 14, 2013 @04:11PM (#5377395)

What's interesting about that is also something left out of the other article, that the girl is a teenager. That makes me wonder how she was out drinking? It also makes me wonder then if these are the same cases. The descriptions of the crime is incredibly similar so I'd believe they are but it sounds like there very well might be more here than the press knows about yet.

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