Eastsidaz, Why do you think that the one year in fed pen is excessive - do you think they should have given him a medal and a cash prize instead for taking advantage of an intoxicated girl? It is a rape - non consensual sex whether it happens in marriage bed or outside is rape - and he got what he deserved. They should have locked him up and thrown away the key, or better yet hanged him then drawn and quartered him. You are the one who brought race into the topic, not me. You implied these sort of things happen only to white women not to others, I was simply trying to throw back the same logic to you by providing an analogy. You are bit disillusioned if you think it doesn't happen to Nepali/Asian/Hispanic/insert your race here girls. You don't hear about it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. The girl in question had the courage to go to the authority - that's why you heard about it. Sadly many rape victims never do that. It is even more problematic in honour based Asian societies where rape is a stigma and reflects badly on the victim rather than the one who did the deed. So many of these cases get unreported. The girl was drunk, the guy forced himself on her without her consent. That's rape - get over it. To rape someone doesn't mean that you have to make her drunk or slip her chloral hydrate in her drink by yourself. By your own definition of rape he did rape her (forcing himself on her).