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The problem here is that widespread and unjustified skepticism about rape claims is making victims far less likely to come forward. Keir Starmer QC highlighted the Jimmy Savile scandal as one example of police being overly cautious in these cases, and as Yewtree and related investigations into abuse have played out in the media over the last three years, middle-aged men with newspaper columns have been lining up to splutter about how affair this all was.Men are more likely to be raped than falsely accused of rape.
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