How shocking. How disgraceful.
So a woman decides to accuse a man of raping her, when her husband finds out, three years after it is born, that their child is not his.
“Oh, I got pregnant when that man raped me while I was drunk and lying on a bed at a party.”
And the police prosecute and arraign him BEFORE carrying out a DNA test to make sure that the child is his. A positive result would not prove that he raped her, but still leave scope for a trial. But a negative result would mean at the outset that there is no case because the woman was lying.
So this man, who is married, is taken to court, his name splashed all over the news media, his family subjected to trauma, and the police haven’t even bothered to give him time for a DNA test FIRST.
Just look at this shocking, disgraceful absurdity:
The Malta Independent, today:
A magisterial inquiry had been held which has to establish whether there is a connection between the child and the accused. According to evidence in court, the Maltese woman, whose name is not being published on the court’s order, filed a rape report with the police when the DNA results showed that her daughter was not her husband’s.
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Even more shocking is the case of Osman Omar , an immigrant, who was kept in jail in Malta, awaiting trial for five years an an attempted rape charge.
There is no evidence at all against him, except for a witness that saw him carry the victim to safety.
“I explained this over and over,” Mr Omar said. “I simply tried to stop the others turning on her. I got involved because I heard the commotion in the dorm and realised immediately what was going to happen.”
He is only on bail following the intervention of two British men who live in Malta, but has been given very restrictive bail conditions.
DNA from sperm collected from the victim did not match, and yet he was still kept in Jail for five years despite having a young child. He was advised to plead guilty,and if he had he would have already been freed, but why should he plead guilty to something he hasn’t done?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBfhvY6dDOY
Shocking video. It had to be two British expats, Jeremy and Michael, to fight for his rights. They got no reply to their letters to the prison. Kudos to Franco Debono for taking this on. What kind of justice is this?
[Daphne – Wasn’t Franco Debono his lawyer from the start? What kudos?]
Was the investigating police officer charged for wrongful arrest? Who was this officer?
Where is he now?
Yes, the public has a right to know.
I have been saying all along that Malta is a police state. The police are not accountable it seems, not even to the Minister in charge of them.
And what about the case of Jamal Badawi , a Maltese of Libyan origin, who was prosecuted for raping a woman in the Floriana subway, merely on a hunch after being picked out of a bizarre identity parade (accompanied by eight very different candidates). DNA tests cleared him, but he was still prosecuted, and evidence piled up in the trial that it couldn’t have been him (as if the DNA results were not cast-iron proof of that…).
And yet he was only freed after a teenager confessed to the crime.
If it were not for Watson and Crick’s monumental discovery 60 years ago, there would not have been any rape in this case.
Rape is conditional on whether a woman’s child is, biologically, her husband’s or not.
Hilarious.
Not only was he not given compensation for the time he spent in remand, but once he was cleared of this charge the police threw another charge at him for having a shotgun at his home without a licence, and till managed to get a sentence smeared on him.
I thought that according to the law the complaint is only admissable if made within 1 year from the act except in some special circumstances such as under twelve year olds or when the rape is commited by a relative.
The Margaret Mifsud case is another example of Libyan bashing.
Look at maltastar :
“Her former partner has been kept at Mount Carmel Hospital as he behaved very hysterically in his cell at Police Headquarters and even tried to commit suicide.”
“The Libyan man made very contradictory and confused statements to the police ”
” His alibi does not seem to be all that solid.”
What if he turns out to be innocent. What about his children who may read all this one day?
How is this information reaching Maltastar?
It seems that persons of Arabic origin are treated much more harshly than Maltese by both the poice and the courts. Is this justice?
These cases are apparently not important enough for Franco Debono.
They could be opportunities for him to show that his heart is in the right place and he’s not concerned only with helping hardened criminals get off scot free.
Even if this man is the biologicalfather, it absolutely does not mean the woman was raped. It is clear that she has created these false accusations not to lose maintenance from her husband. Her values and morals are disgusting.
Will this woman be prosecuted for wasting police and court time and tax payers’ money?
She should get the same sentence her alleged rapist would have got if convicted and made to pay costs.