The Democratic candidate for Nassau County’s prime elected spot claimed some girls false report rape due to a “fantasy” – as one homicide sufferer’s household shot again over the resurfaced feedback.
Seth Koslow, the Democrat operating for Nassau County govt, criticized legal guidelines that protected alleged rape victims as going too far in a 2013 Touro Legislation Journal.
“There are a myriad of the explanation why a girl would fabricate a rape; a few of these causes embrace a need to cover her personal promiscuity, a need/fantasy to be raped, or a need for vengeance,” Koslow wrote.
However the sisters of 21-year-old murder-rape sufferer Sarah Goode unloaded on Koslow in a hard-hitting TV advert paid for by his Republican opponent, incumbent County Govt Bruce Blakeman.
“Sick and disgusting,” sister Tabitha Miller mentioned of Koslow’s opinion. “My sister Sarah didn’t ask for this. She didn’t fantasize about her rape. She’s a sufferer. Don’t vote for Seth Koslow.”
She and her sister, Jennifer Driver, appeared within the emotionally charged advert after Sarah Goode’s disturbing demise in 2014.
Koslow’s controversial piece additionally mentioned rape defend legal guidelines that bar girls’s sexual historical past from getting used towards them in sexual assault circumstances.
“Permitting defendants to debate a girl’s sexual historical past was unfair and unjustifiable,” Koslow, a former prosecutor turned prison protection lawyer and present Nassau County legislator, mentioned.
“Nevertheless, because of present rape defend guidelines, the pendulum of proof required in rape circumstances has swung in disfavor of the defendant, to the intense.”
The Koslow article mentioned the “influence of rape defend legal guidelines on the accused.”
“Males have confronted false rape accusations since biblical instances,” he mentioned
Koslow additionally penned a 2017 article in Nassau Lawyer headlined, “Sealing of Legal Information: Apply Alone, at Your Personal Danger,” stating, “This text endeavors to clarify…methods to apply for sealing of a conviction…and the place the pitfalls lie.”
Blakeman mentioned, “Seth Koslow’s pro-criminal agenda is sickening, and his reckless declare that girls fabricate rape as a result of they ‘need it’ makes him morally unfit to symbolize us.
“Voters face a transparent alternative: my report of hiring 400 new legislation enforcement officers and making Nassau the most secure county in America—or Koslow’s report of protecting thugs out of jail and serving to criminals erase their information.”
Nassau County Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs, responding on Koslow’s behalf, accused Blakeman of smearing his candidate to deflect from his report, together with the closure of the county’s home violence middle on his watch.
“This attack-to-distract tactic reveals how determined Bruce Blakeman is for county residents to look away from his dismal report on protecting our communities secure and standing up for girls,” Jacobs mentioned.
“Underneath Blakeman, the Protected Heart — the one non-profit group offering help to victims of sexual violence — closed attributable to an absence of county help.”
Jacobs additionally mentioned 90 prosecutors left the Nassau district legal professional’s workplace beneath his watch, and the Nassau Police Division has remained understaffed by 40 detectives whereas claiming crime is up.
“This solely proves that Blakeman will do something to cowl up his administration’s full and utter failure — together with fully distorting Seth Koslow’s writings from over a decade in the past, when he was a legislation pupil — to distract from his personal report of turning his again on weak girls. He’s not fooling anybody – Blakeman has failed the ladies and residents of Nassau County,” Jacobs mentioned.
Blakeman has been endorsed by all of the legislation enforcement unions and Nassau County and US Information and World Report final yr ranked Nassau the most secure neighborhood in America.
