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17-year-old Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam has received support from many on social media for speaking out against the passivity shown against rape, but has also been subjected to immense backlash
A Malaysian teenager is facing major backlash for speaking out against the passivity shown towards rape culture in the country’s schools. Ain took to TikTok to point to excesses teachers take with words, especially while referring to traumatic crimes like rape.
Since then, the 17-year-old Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam has received support from many on social media, while also receiving a lot of backlash for speaking out against the same.
re-evaluated? rape crimes, similar sexual assault cases are now being re-evaluated, the current trend is to extend the statute of limitation or to do away with them all together. proponents of them says hey, it allows more crimes to be prosecuted, more victims to bring their cases. there s always the other side of the coin, there is a price to pay, and that price is any time you expand the number of claims that can be brought, expand the number of claims that can be prosecuted. the older evidence gets as it goes on, if it s less reliable and we acknowledge that, you re increasing the risk that an innocent person might be convicted. and if we re comfortable with that, then there s no problem. the way that eliminating statutes of limitations works is that if you assume 100% of all claims and allegations are always true, so we know that s just not true. so maybe society wants and it may be the appropriate time for