Why do they let someone out on bail who has been charged with child sexual assault with no conditions other than not allowed too leave their state and obviously not allowed near the victim?
This person is just now allowed to roam free still?
Why do they let someone out on bail who has been charged with child sexual assault with no conditions other than not allowed too leave their state and obviously not allowed near the victim?
This person is just now allowed to roam free still?
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Because in this country you are innocent until proven guilty.
The law is consistent across ALL crimes.
I find it so weird they have all the evidence too charge but not lock them up. Then they set a court day so far in the future and the charged can keep going on possibly reoffending without being caught. Just strange in my opinion..... if they have the evidence I would say they are already guilty
Evidence could be statements from victims, professionals and witnesses. And sometimes charges can be simply made from one person's complaint without any other evidence. If people could be charged so easily there would be a lot of innocent people in jail. They would push a case forward if it had received a lot of public interest so the jury doesn't have preconceived ideas about the case resulting in an unfair trial.
How do you suppose they handle it then?
The whole point of a trial is determine if they are guilty, usually decided by a jury of their peers, overseen by a judge who has expert knowledge of the law.
Defended appropriately by a lawyer, charged by another lawyer, again, all experts in the law.
Do you want police officers to just "go through the evidence", bypass the rest of the process and have approval to just lock people up?
If there are extenuating circumstances such as the defendant is a flight risk, offending risk etc. it is up to the prosecutor to fight against them getting bail, but again, this is up to the courts to decide, not police.
Bail is set at the appropriate amount, to stop people from running away.
Would you rather we ran on some European systems, rather than the Westminister abbey system, where people are guilty into proven innocent?
Call me crazy, but wasn't your partner recently up on charges for something he did a long time ago?
How would you feel if the police were judges and prosecutor and locked him up whilst he is awaiting trial?
How do you know the ops partner was up on charges? I've re read i can't see it.
Call it a feeling...this is her second attempt at this post.
That person is just assuming and no it isn't even about my partner. I don't even have a partner 😕
I'm sorry but this isn't even about my partner!! So your assumption is just gross and uncalled for. No this is my first post so I have no idea where you are getting your information from.
Thank you. This is why I am asking as I have no clue about the law and the more I researched it, the more confused I actually got. Makes some more sense now.
Ok. I've seen a similar situation to OP's play out and learned I was very naiive about our legal system.
There is no investigation or evidence required to charge someone. Even if you have a solid alibi & witnesses the police won't investigate. It only requires a complaint to be made then it's the court's problem.
So although a majority are guilty, some are not. You can't just lock them up without a trial & assume guilt.
If interested, there was 60 minutes investigation a few months ago about a similar case. I expect it's still on catch up.
I will have to go looking for it as I want too understand more. I tried looking online and I got very confused