From what I can tell the crimes that I am about to write about happened around 10 years ago now.
I first heard about these crimes in passing on Triple J news on Friday heading to Uni, but I missed some of it and I didn't try to look up more about it.
However from what I have found it seems that this man raped 22 women and has been charged with 61 offences that involve 24 women.
He looked respectable, and would buy the women hot chocolate which he would lace with drugs.
In 1998 the case went cold until possibly July this year when two of the victims appealed for other victims to come forward.
Yesterday a man was charged with 61 charges against 24 women.
The man goes by the name of Harry William Barkas who is in remand until December 12.
The article gives the charges:
Mr Barkas has been charged with four counts of rape, one of indecent assault, five counts of administering drugs to render a person unable to resist sexual penetration and one count each of using and trafficking cannabis.
Now the problem that I have with punishing rapists is that do they really understand what they have done? How they have hurt the people that they raped?
I want to link to a thread in the Myspace forums where someone posted that they should legalise rape, but it might have been deleted.
The reason why I wanted to link to it was because this person didn't seem to understand the difference between rape and rough sex.
I wonder if rapists have the same problem, that they equate rape with having rough sex?
How could you punish someone like that? Let them be raped to see the difference?
Finally if all goes well the women who were raped will finally get to see some justice for what has happened to them. And justice after a crime is really all that matters.
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