Jennalinne, you know I think the Nepali rapist got what he deserved. However your contention ... "you can't just assume the sex was consentual. how do you know he's not LYING?? because nepalis never lie, or something?" ... someone can pose the same question this way "how do you know the victim is telling the truth. because white girls who drink illigally don't lie? the bartenders who sever drinks to these girls don't lie!!!" Why do you find it so hard to even consider that the CONVICT might possibly be telling the truth. It might be that he conceived that he was having a consentual sex!! No matter how heineous the act we need to consider everything!! " if a nepali girl went to court claiming to be raped by a white man,..." - your statement!! .... can you gurantee and say with a straight face that the white man who is accused be convicted... comeon now ... if you think that you must be pretty naive. The media would be all over this poor Nepali girl accusing her of being a whore who is trying to trap a white guy so that she can stay in US and become permanent residence and so forth... Comeon now... I understand your sentiments about the convict on this case and the victim but please don't be naive enough to paint the picture of the US justice system as being a Utopian justics sytem .... it's far from it and any highschool graduate knows that!! Yep