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1. New York State law limits the definition of "rape" to an act of "sexual intercourse" between a man and a woman. Other sex crimes (for example, forcible male-on-male sodomy in a prison, an assault on a woman's private parts with any sort of object, etc.) have different titles in the penal law, but they are felonies that are just as serious as "rape." In the first case, the crime (which was once called "sodomy"), is now called "criminal sexual act", and in the second case the crime is called "aggravated sexual abuse."
2. In Trump's case, the jury found that he forcibly inserted his finger (just as he said he liked to do in the notorious audio tape where he talked about grabbing women by the *****), which is 'aggravated sexual abuse', but the judge subsequently found that in common language, people talk about ALL such assaults using the term "rape."
3. Most people would not find the argument "Trump did not rape her manually because in New York law you cannot rape anyone with your hand; instead, while he did do that, it isn't called 'rape' in the penal code, but is instead a similarly serious crime, but with a different name" to be a very persuasive defense
( He uses his hand to sexually assault women because he has a tiny weiner. ) |
