Sidster and Pire

While I will not even begin to comment on rights of woman in Nepal since I have no clue and absolutely no knowledge of what goes on in Nepal, I can comment on the case.  That I have knowledge of...

I assure you both, we looked into the possibility of a consensual love affair between Ajay and the victim.  The problem that we kept running into no matter which angle we went was this...  the ENTIRE defense strategy was that the was never a sexual relationship between Ajay and the victim.  Based on the evidence, we know that a sexual relationship occured.  If the relationship was consensual, wouldn't the defense had been that there was a relationship after she was 18 and it was consensual?  There would have been no crime since she was 18 and he would be free and clear.  Since he claimed that nothing ever happened and everything was a story made up in her head, it was hard to buy that it was consensual....  Not to mention that we found it odd that when she suspected she was pregnant, she went to him.  They did a test together in his work office and then he took her to a clinic..  Of course, this does not prove he was the father (he wasn't found guilty of the charges relating to pregnancies) but it does seem odd.