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15 November, 2008 at 4:38 pm #12298
This man was cleared of rape because he was sleepwalking??
sleepwalking16 November, 2008 at 4:09 pm #387075Sorry to differ, but i think that there’s a good chance of this being possible. Don’t know whether he is actually telling the truth or not, but definately think it can happen.
I want to hear Pb’s view on this, i value his opinions, on most subjects.
16 November, 2008 at 4:56 pm #387076There was a TV programme on recently about people who have sex in their sleep with no recollection of it afterwards. Whether this is what has happened here is another question……
16 November, 2008 at 6:00 pm #387077ive watched tv programes seeing ppl being violent in their sleep
16 November, 2008 at 9:38 pm #387078@woohoo wrote:
Sorry to differ, but i think that there’s a good chance of this being possible. Don’t know whether he is actually telling the truth or not, but definately think it can happen.
I want to hear Pb’s view on this, i value his opinions, on most subjects.
Crikey Woo Hoo … not many people do!!!
In line with other posters, i’ve also seen (in the past) TV programmes or documentaries on sleepwalking. As I understand it, sleepwalkers can do pretty much everything they do whilst awake … but in fact they are ‘asleep’. With this in mind, it seems entirely possible that a (male) sleepwalker could have sex with a female.
Secondly, and given that rape is the act of a male having sexual intercourse (i.e. actual penetration) with a female BUT without her consent – it would appear to be entirely possible that a male whilst asleep visited a female and had sex with her WITHOUT her consent – i.e. raped her.
According to the report in the Media: “Jane McKenna, 33, was asleep at home when a friend’s husband, who had been a guest at a barbecue, walked into the bedroom and started having sex with her.” Note the “started having sex with her” bit. In other words the act wasn’t necessarily completed.
From this I would infer that he was already a guest in her house and simply ”sleepwalked’ from one room into another. He started to do what came naturally to him when with a woman and then, when she resisted, he ‘woke up’ and presumably stopped. however, penetration had taken place and therefore she HAD been raped – even though he subsequently stopped.
On the face of it this is entirely possible. HOWEVER, my instinct is that he came up with a mighty convenient defence. Somehow I find myself wondering if he woke up feeling a bit horny, and just thought that he would pop into the next door bedroom and give his friend’s wife a bit of a seeing to – if she was up for it. Unfortunately for him …. she wasn’t !!!
OK so the Court bought the story as (no doubt) there was a ”reasonable doubt” ….. but I wonder.
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