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Originally Posted by transplant99
I really don't/can't hold that whole accusation against him. He went and testified before a grand jury for 2 hours IIRC, and the evidence simply didnt exist. They tried to get it to trial but just couldn't justify it.
That combined with the girls attorney getting charged with trying to extort money from the Blues in exchange for silence, sealed it for me.
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If you want to give the benefit of the doubt to Gilmour as he wasn't convicted of rape, that's fine. I mean, innocent until proven guilty is a great mantra to live by.
But essentially you're calling a 13 year old, who may have been raped, a liar because the lawyer her parents hired did something illegal? Or what else can you mean by "sealed it."
There wasn't much evidence. The parents found a diary with explicit details regarding their 13 year old daughter and Gilmour. The daughter confessed to them that she had sex with Gilmour. Gilmour denied it. There wasn't much evidence because that's the nature of these type of incidents. Especially when we're talking 1988 and there's no sexting or dick pics to look at. I don't know how you can so callously disregard a 13 year old who may have been raped like that though. It's one of the reason people who are raped don't come forward because they don't have evidence and people will dismiss them so quickly.
Of course we'll never know the truth, but I think it's entirely classless to essentially say that Gilmour didn't rape her and she made it up as suggested in your post. It could be the case, it might not be.