[Aliantha]

It seems very harsh to me too.

I was on a jury once and it was a rape trial. Both were consenting adults but the chick with the charges couldn't remember anything. Literally all her answers to the prosecuter and the defandants qc were, 'I can't remember'. She definitely had a roo or two loose in the top paddock, but there was no evidence to suggest she'd been raped at all.

The defence came down to whether the defendants should have been responsible for knowing if the girl was capable of knowing what she was doing or not.

It's always hard to really understand these types of things unless you've got all the evidence first.

I was the chairperson in our jury, so responsible for leading discussion etc. As most of you know, I've a personal issue with rape, so it was a tough case for me, but the evidence didn't suggest rape, and so the alleged offenders were found not guilty.

Sometimes it's easy to sit back and say, 'that's not fair', but sometimes, you don't get the full story.