John Jarrett (the actor) I's reportedly going to stand trial for an alleged 1976 rape. The alleged rare was reported to police in December 2017. I've not seen any mention of earlier attempts to report it to police. I have no view regarding guilt or innocence of Jarrett, no particular interest in him other than as a name and face I'm slightly familiar with.

I do have big concerns with the kind of "justice" which leaves someone having to defend themself against charges for something alleged to have happened more than 40 years earlier. There are times when delays make some sense, the alleged perpetrator not being able to be located being the most obvious.

I've also got some sympathy for the then child victims of institutional abuse and the reasons why so often those compliments to have taken a long time to be raised although I think we are at or past the point where we should be putting some time limits on the reporting of historical offences. What I've read of the allegation against Jarrett don't appear to have any good reason to justify the delay which should reasonably override the trauma to him of the process of innocent. I gather that it's hard to get a conviction after such A length of time but it's also hard to defend yourself. How did a particular conversation go one Saturday night back in September of 1979? Who else was there who might be able to act as a witness? Innocent or not the process of being charged and brought to trial will have a toll. In an era when some powerful voices and openly proclaim the need to believe the victim and equate accusing with being a victim some will consider Jarrett guilty regardless of the outcome of the trail. Something really wrong here with this version of justice.

with massive amounts of kids being abused today in the NT, WA and other Indigeneous communities one really wonders how political the whole Royal Commission was/is. Cases from 50 years ago taking precedence over protecting kids. KIds are being abused under our noses but identity politics wins the day.

I agree with everything you say. However, it has all been said before, and the #metoo thing is still running out of control. What is happening is not a "version" of justice; it is not justice at all. A very nasty, sick bunch of females have it in for men. The real victims of these bitches are women themselves, including the majority of nice, decent and beautiful creatures so necessary to us blokes, who, thanks to the bitches, must be treated with suspicion if they they come within coo-ee of us. What used to be normal interaction has been poisoned. I very pleased to be an old bugger married to a good woman for fifty years. A feel really sorry for young people of both sexes and what a relatively few horrible, psyco bitches have done to society.

I agree with everything you say. However, it has all been said before, and the #metoo thing is still running out of control. What is happening is not a "version" of justice; it is not justice at all. A very nasty, sick bunch of females have it in for men. The real victims of these bitches are women themselves, including the majority of nice, decent and beautiful creatures so necessary to us blokes, who, thanks to the bitches, must be treated with suspicion if they they come within coo-ee of us. What used to be normal interaction has been poisoned. I very pleased to be an old bugger married to a good woman for fifty years. A feel really sorry for young people of both sexes and what a relatively few horrible, psycho bitches have done to society.

I'm still waiting for a broke homeless bloke to be acused of some harrassment by some female.

have those lying feminist who accused Kavanaugh been put in prison yet? Oh they will be good candidates to run for the Democrats next election. Nothing to see!