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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
On the other hand there are a lot of things we don't know here. But if others want to overload on outrage and bring out their pitchforks let them. Why let facts stand in the way of some good old fashioned moral outrage?
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What do you want to know?
Okay, first if the relationship took place or not. That's a fair one. Knowing if the allegation is true or not is obviously hugely important.
But under the assumption that the allegation is true. What more information do you need, what changes regardless of circumstance? It's still literally rape under any circumstance. There's no way for it to be a "legitimate relationship." Defining it as anything but sexual assault is being a rapist apologist and doing a great disservice to, not only this person, but anyone who's being preyed up or being groomed by persons in a position of authority right now. It's a disgusting attitude to suggest that it could be a "legitimate relationship."
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For greater certainty, subsection 273.1(2) sets out specific situations where there is no consent in law; no consent is obtained:
where the agreement is expressed by the words or conduct of a person other than the complainant
where the complainant is incapable of consenting to the activity
where the accused induces the complainant to engage in the activity by abusing a position of trust, power or authority
where the complainant expresses, by words or conduct, a lack of agreement to engage in the activity, or
where the complainant, having consented to engage in sexual activity, expresses, by words or conduct, a lack of agreement to continue to engage in the activity.
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