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Originally posted by ceremonials
It's very hard to both prove rape and to disprove rape. I get that. But unless there is evidence against the plaintiff, a judge should believe the plaintiff.
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That's not how the law works, especially when the alleged victim is using the alleged rape to get out of her record deal, instead of seeking justice for being raped. That's why the whole thing is suspect - Kesha isn't actually seeking justice for an alleged rape, she's using it only as a reason for getting out of a record deal, which isn't normal.
Dr Luke hasn't actually been investigated for alleged rape. Kesha hasn't actually formally gone to the police and told them he raped her. This unfortunately makes it look like to any respectable judge that Kesha doesn't want this rape case that deeply investigated, because the moment it is, it could be found untrue and actually used against her trying to get out of her record deal.
Further more, there's actually more suggesting that Dr Luke didn't rape her or even have sex with her, than that he did. Dr Luke has the support of Kesha's peers, even artists that have no relationship with Dr Luke, such as Lady Gaga and Kelly Clarkson, who have both publicly called fowl on Kesha and her team for lying. Then there are celebrated artists like Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, etc. who are still very involved with Dr Luke as recently as today.
As slimy as the music industry is, L.A. Reid would send the Fifth Harmony girls to do recording sessions with Dr Luke if he believed he was a rapist. This counts for something, and unless Kesha gets the courage to take the rape allegation further, it's just a case of he said/she said with no real objective, that is sliding towards Dr Luke's favour.
If the judge today believed Dr Luke raped Kesha, she would be out of the record deal. Sadly the US law, one of the biggest Japanese companies in the world and most of the music industry don't believe her. Simple as that sadly.