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    [Leuven, Belgium] Studente di medicina condannato per aver violentato un altro studente sfugge alla condanna come “è giovane e talentuoso”


    [Leuven, Belgium] Studente di medicina condannato per aver violentato un altro studente sfugge alla condanna come “è giovane e talentuoso”

    https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/04/01/medical-student-convicted-of-raping-another-student-escapes-sent/

    di Dubhara

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    1. Dubhara on

      It is not mentioned in the English article, but local media has reported that this student is studying to become a gynecologist.

      He has expressed: “It’s unfortunate that she experienced it as transgressive behavior”

      No public reaction has been issued by the related university at the current time (1/4/25)

      Source of the extra info (in dutch): https://www.hln.be/leuven/gynaecoloog-in-spe-verkracht-studente-maar-ontsnapt-aan-straf-spijtig-dat-ze-het-als-grensoverschrijdend-heeft-ervaren~a5cf2d72/

      UPDATE: the hospital tied to his university has currently put him on non-active (UZ Leuven)

    5. pokIane on

      Shit like this is why some people will take justice into their own hands. 

    6. shadowrun456 on

      It sounded absolutely horrible, until I’ve actually read the article (reading articles? on Reddit? shocking, I know)

      >They then went to his digs, where they had sex. He claims that he asked her several times if she consented and that he had been given the impression that she did. However, the prosecution said that what happened was rape and he had profited from the victim’s drunken state to satisfy his sexual desires.

      Note that the defense never disagreed that she gave her consent, only that her consent was supposedly “invalid” because she was drunk. Two drunk people consentually have sex, and then it becomes “rape”, because one of the drunk people was a woman. Bullshit like this only leads to people trivializing actual rape, because they are used to the word “rape” being applied in situations like this.

    7. shadowrun456 on

      It sounded absolutely horrible, until I’ve actually read the article (reading articles? on Reddit? shocking, I know)

      >They then went to his digs, where they had s*x. He claims that he asked her several times if she consented and that he had been given the impression that she did. However, the prosecution said that what happened was r*pe and he had profited from the victim’s drunken state to satisfy his s*xual desires.

      Note that the defense never disagreed that she gave her consent, only that her consent was supposedly “invalid” because she was drunk. Two drunk people consensually have s*x, and then it becomes “r*pe”, because one of the drunk people was a woman. Bullshit like this only leads to people trivializing actual r*pe, because they are used to the word “r*pe” being applied in situations like this.

      P.S. Sorry for “censoring” the words. My comment kept getting shadowbanned otherwise, and didn’t even show up.

    9. Dubhara on

      Some people seem to be arguing over whether or not this was rape.

      That is not the point of this post/discussion. He was convicted; whether that is right or wrong is a different discussion.

      I think that we should be talking about how a convicted rapist got no punishment because the judge thinks he is young and talented. That makes no sense and creates a very dangerous legal precedent. If a judge decides that you are talented enough, you can get away with a serious crime. I’m not a lawyer but that seems non-democratic to me.

      Also; for those that still will comment and fight me for the rape allegation:

      “She stumbled and was unable to stand up on her own two feet and needed support to prevent her from falling down”

      Nobody is ever in a position to give consent in that condition. A future gynecologist should know this and have the required ethical training and understanding that that is not the right condition for sex. And even if you think that is still “open for discussion”, stop muddying the waters or at least acknowledge that once convicted, a rapist should not walk for free on a judge’s whim.

      In my eyes this is just becoming Reuzegom 2.0; it is not looking good for Belgium and KULeuven in particular.

    11. absurdherowaw on

      This is absolutely insane and disgusting. Both the crime and the verdict. 

    13. KilumRevazi on

      But surely this conviction will bar him from a lot of jobs including and perhaps especially working as a gynaecologist. Who is going to hire this rapist?

      He may not receive a jail sentence. But his life is over regardless I assume?

    17. La_danse_banana_slug on

      The defense had only requested a 3 year sentence. So when he got out, he still would have been young and talented.

      >Judge: “**By finding him guilty but not punishing him, he will be made to feel guilty** and the chance of him reoffending will be prevented, without socially impairing the man”.

      *How??*

      They didn’t even make him pay a fine or do any probationary stuff. This won’t appear on his criminal record.

    18. NervousSprinkler on

      I know there’s a HUGE lack of doctors in most of Europe but that’s not thr type we want.

    20. Outrageous-Note5082 on

      As a first year Law Student who sees Sanda Dia’s mural regularly: What the actual fuck, Belgium?!

    26. UlyssestheBrave on

      Ask yourself this: who is more likely to be in the right:
      – an impartial professional judge with a law degree, who swore an oath, deals with cases like these on a regular basis, was presented with all the evidence and the pleas of lawyers and statements of victim and perpetrator
      – some people on the Internet reading and sharing a sensationalist headline

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