[quote="New York Times"] Although forensic tests found unambiguous evidence of a sexual encounter between Mr. Strauss-Kahn, a French politician, and the woman, prosecutors now do not believe much of what the accuser has told them about the circumstances or about herself. Since her initial allegation on May 14, the accuser has repeatedly lied, one of the law enforcement officials said. Senior prosecutors met with lawyers for Mr. Strauss-Kahn on Thursday and provided details about their findings, and the parties are discussing whether to dismiss the felony charges. Among the discoveries, one of the officials said, are issues involving the asylum application of the 32-year-old housekeeper, who is Guinean, and possible links to people involved in criminal activities, including drug dealing and money laundering. Link I admit that I have not been following this closely at all. The general thought I have is that initially there seemed to be a great deal of condemnation for the accused and many people were viewing it as a more or less open and shut case. Are these revelations surprising or unexpected? Was the accuser's credibility always considered somewhat suspect? Basically I'm wondering if this was always considered to be a suspect case or if recent revelations are considered to be very surprising.
I hadn't seen anything brought into the media until the Times reported on this recent development, probably because it is considered so impolitic to challenge a woman's claim of sexual assault. The indications in that article are very disturbing, however, even more so if it bears out that her claims of coercion are actually bogus. Folks like her and the woman from the Duke Lacrosse case do serious damage to the credibility of women who actually are assaulted and deserve to be dealt with as harshly as the law allows, IMO
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