It's the latest in a terrible pattern of victim-blaming and and excusing rape and this time it's coming from New Zealand.
Keith Jeffries, a defense lawyer, said that his client's rape victim should have "closed her legs" if she didn't want to be attacked.
Our mouths are hanging open at his repugnant and idiotic statements, too.
Jeffries said the victim did not cry out or struggle and points to the fact that she didn't as proof that the sex was consensual.
"All she would have had to do was to close her legs. It's as simple as that."
George Pule, a bouncer for a night club, was found guilty of raping the 20 year old woman when she tried to get into a nightclub to meet her friends. Pule told her he could get her into the club but instead took her into an alley and raped her.
Jeffries said his comments came from defending his client and do not reflect his personal views. He has also said that he was quoted out of context and that anyone reading the trial transcripts would be able to see that.
His comments, he says, were "relevant to the facts of the case."
Geraldine Kelly, the prosecutor in the case, told the court that the unnamed victim didn't fight back because she was terrified. "This isn't an American TV show," Kelly states. "This is real life. She was scared, and she didn't want to make the situation worse."
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