On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/02/2008, wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
If it were to be brought to trial, the victim's identity becomes part of the trial record. You can't have an anonymous victim.
There is a reason for that. A person accused has the right to face their accuser.
The accused does, sure. The public doesn't, necessarily.
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In any jurisdiction which guarantees the right to non-secret trials, they actually sure do. I happen to like the idea that I cannot be tried in secret if I'm accused of a crime, and that an accuser must be confident enough of his/her accusation to actually come forward by name. It would be a poor society indeed that allowed people to be imprisoned on the basis of secret accusations by anonymous people at closed trials.