Two different court decisions on crimes against women.

Acquittal of Hubert Webb et al. (Vizconde Massacre case)
Acquittal of Hayden Kho (Sex Video Scandal)

It's almost reminiscent of one of my Comparative Literature classes, where my professor required me to discuss an essay on Literature and the Law by Richard Weisberg and Jean-Pierre Barricelli (Interrelations of Literatureby Barricelli & Gibaldi, 1983). The essay spoke of how two similar cases could yield astonishingly different results and that the differences lie in how the judges wrote their verdicts.

The legal process, like the literary, moves from an experience in life toward a narrative re-creation of that experience. However tightly bound to evidence and the logic of events, the re-creation needs the bridging or collating powers of the imagination to put together the scene, or the picture, in all its details. (p. 162.)

For these two cases, the court decision went in favor of the defendants. My reaction to the results, however, are worlds apart.

My two cents:
Hubert Webb: Innocent. We don't have enough evidence and the "star" witness keeps changing her testimonies. If he really is innocent, then the 15 years he spent in jail is a grave injustice.

Hayden Kho: Arsewipe. Here's a snippet from the article that is truly enraging: "It becomes a crime only when the said act 'alarms or causes substantial emotional or psychological distress to the woman.'" Pray tell, what part of that sex video leakage -- involving tens of other women -- is not distressing?