Post by marion on May 8, 2019 18:03:01 GMT
This series started on Monday at 10.00 but it repeated late tonight and in 47 late Friday.
It looks at high profile student rape cases in the US and I found the first one very interesting. Law and Order SUV it certainly wasn't. The first case was Nikki Yovino, a first year at Sacred Heart in Connecticut, went to a student party in a dark basement. She claimed two black students pulled her into a bathroom and pressured her into having sex. They said it was consensual. She went to the police (we didn't hear anything about medical visits, rape kits etc) and Detective Cotto was filmed interviewing her. He carried on investigating, felt there was more to it, and went to her home in NY to interview her again. Her father offered him a seat in the kitchen but he and his colleague insisted on privacy and they went to the basement with Nikki. There he interviewed her on tape, doggedly, and she changed her story. She more or less claimed coercion, he seemed only to accept rape as rape if there was physical force. Subsequently, he charged her with making a false accusation and she took a plea deal, serving six months plus probation.
They interviewed, Nikki, Detective Cotto, her lawyer, the men's lawyer and a couple of talking heads. But right at the end it came out that Cotto had never interviewed the alleged rapists. ALso, he maintained throughout that he had the whole night on video so could see her chatting to the men, going into the bathroom and what went on inside! None of that was true! He didn't seem to consider the question of consent and this was a recent case, I think 2018.
It was really a fascinating film and I'm sure if it had come to trial the jury would have found it hard to come to a verdict.
It looks at high profile student rape cases in the US and I found the first one very interesting. Law and Order SUV it certainly wasn't. The first case was Nikki Yovino, a first year at Sacred Heart in Connecticut, went to a student party in a dark basement. She claimed two black students pulled her into a bathroom and pressured her into having sex. They said it was consensual. She went to the police (we didn't hear anything about medical visits, rape kits etc) and Detective Cotto was filmed interviewing her. He carried on investigating, felt there was more to it, and went to her home in NY to interview her again. Her father offered him a seat in the kitchen but he and his colleague insisted on privacy and they went to the basement with Nikki. There he interviewed her on tape, doggedly, and she changed her story. She more or less claimed coercion, he seemed only to accept rape as rape if there was physical force. Subsequently, he charged her with making a false accusation and she took a plea deal, serving six months plus probation.
They interviewed, Nikki, Detective Cotto, her lawyer, the men's lawyer and a couple of talking heads. But right at the end it came out that Cotto had never interviewed the alleged rapists. ALso, he maintained throughout that he had the whole night on video so could see her chatting to the men, going into the bathroom and what went on inside! None of that was true! He didn't seem to consider the question of consent and this was a recent case, I think 2018.
It was really a fascinating film and I'm sure if it had come to trial the jury would have found it hard to come to a verdict.
Anymore to come?
