Women in Ireland have stood up together to define consent. After storming social media with underwear photos, they have now taken to streets protesting against the defense lawyer who held up a teenager슬롯사이트s G-string in a rape trial to indicate consent. Last week, at Cork Central Criminal Court, defense attorney Elizabeth O슬롯사이트Connell in her closing address told the judges they should consider the type of underwear the teen wore the night of the incident. Soon after the trial, the demonstrations were organised under the hashtags #ThisIsNotConsent and #EndVictimBlaming. Women Flood Twitter With Underwear Photos After It Was Used as Evidence in Rape Trial in Ireland.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천

The 27-year-old man was found not guilty of raping the 17-year-old. According to the Irish Examiner, the defence barrister presented the jurors with a lacy thong worn by the victim and said, 슬롯사이트Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone? You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front.슬롯사이트� Using a thong as evidence of implied consent was nothing but victim blaming. The lawyer슬롯사이트s remark sparked outrage far beyond the trial.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Growing Rape Cases in India: These Statistics Reveal 7 Ugly Truths about Sexual Violence in The Country.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천

Here are some pictures from the #ThisIsNotConsent rally.

At a rally in Dublin on November 14, Tara Brown of the National Women슬롯사이트s Council of Ireland said as quoted by The Guardian, 슬롯사이트We stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault who are being grievously failed by our criminal justice system. The type of clothes a victim was wearing has no place in our criminal justice system, and it had no place in determining what is consent. We have a responsibility to create a safe system for survivors of sexual assault, and we are repeatedly shown that we are a long way from achieving a victim-centred [prosecution] system.슬롯사이트�

#ThisIsNotConsent protestors place underwears on the steps of the courthouse.

In Cork, the protest which was organised by a feminist organisation ROSA, women marched to the courthouse and placed their underwear at the steps of the building 슬롯사이트to show that we are not tolerating it anymore, that we won슬롯사이트t be silenced, not anymore,슬롯사이트� spokesperson, Fiona Ryan told ABC News. Protests also erupted in other parts at Ireland with hundreds of women and men calling for a national reckoning over how sexual assault cases are handled.

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