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Kevin Spacey cleared over all sexual assault charges (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] Splitdipless@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

...it's from a odd technicality where on ol' blighty, a male can't be "raped" because of how the laws are written. Call it a peculiarity of their system or sexism, but it results in oddly sounding charges like what you see reported at least.