Connecticut Court Aquits Rapist Because Victim Couldn't Scream

Yeah, you heard that right.   The Connecticut Supreme Court, by a 4 to 3 vote, overturned the sexual assault conviction of a man who allegedly raped a woman who “has severe cerebral palsy, has the intellectual functional equivalent of a 3-year-old and cannot verbally communicate.”

The court held that Connecticut law the man could not be convicted if there was any chance that the victim could have communicated lack of consent.

The court ruled the state failed to adduce,  "any credible evidence that the [victim] was either unconscious or so uncommunicative that she was physically incapable of manifesting to the defendant her lack of consent to sexual intercourse at the time of the alleged sexual assault."

It found that the victim was capable of kicking, scratching, biting or screeching to communicate lack of consent.