Again, WITH NO OTHER INFO, if all you have heard is-a woman claims she was raped by 5 guys, the 5 guys say it was consentual. Who do you believe?
This is a bullshit, straw man argument. The reason is that you've created this fantasy that can never be realized.
I'm been on the prosecution teams for many rapes and I can tell you that I've believe many of them and I've also disbelieved many of them.
You've give no facts that help actually make a determination here. You're acting like math (5 against 1) is a no brainer decision. That's stupid and fits pretty well with your overall level of posting. In almost EVERY gang rape situation, the accused act as witnesses and therefore, the witnessed claiming that they are innocent outnumber the witness (usually) saying that it was rape.
Thankfully, law doesn't work as moronically as you've outlined here. Bias is taken into consideration by a jury when listening to testimony. Corroborating evidence for each story is looked at. The comportment of the victim and accused is considered.
So, your simple question isn't simple. It's the product of a simple mind that doesn't know the first thing about the complexity of a pre-trial investigation and how many people have to be convinced before we'll even prosecute...much less win.
All that said, addressing your lame scenario....knowing nothing more, I'm going with the girl. Here's why. Alleging rape is a very difficult thing to do. This is why I feel that rape is usually worse than murder, because the victim continues to suffer.
There is a great deal of stress imposed on someone alleging rape. You have rape kits (a complete invasion of their body) and repeated questioning to the point of exhaustion.
Now, are there times people falsely allege rape? Absolutely, but it less common that truthful accounts because it is so hard.
On the other side, people that are being convicted of rape stating that they didn't do it or that it was consensual is almost 100%. RARELY do you have someone admit to it. So that fact that 5 whole guys (read with bitter sarcastic tone) managed to pluck up the courage to say "I didn't do it.....she wanted it man."
Yeah, that's not super compelling to me. Certainly, there are times when their comments make sense and hers don't. You don't hear about those, because we don't prosecute them.
