THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch man was convicted Tuesday of eradicating his condom throughout intercourse with out his accomplice’s consent, within the first trial within the Netherlands for so-called “stealthing.”
Nonetheless Dordrecht District Courtroom acquitted the person of a rape cost as a result of it dominated that the intercourse was consensual.
“By his actions, the suspect pressured the sufferer to tolerate having unprotected intercourse with him. In doing so, he restricted her private freedom and abused the belief she had positioned in him,” the court docket mentioned.
Different courts even have additionally tackled the phenomenon in recent times. In a case in Germany, a Berlin court docket in 2018 convicted a police officer of sexual assault and gave him an eight-month suspended sentence for secretly eradicating his condom throughout intercourse, and ordered him to pay damages of practically 3,100 euros to the sufferer. The suspended sentence was decreased to 6 months on an preliminary enchantment.
In 2021, California lawmakers made the state the primary within the U.S. to outlaw “stealthing,” making it unlawful to take away a condom with out acquiring verbal consent. But it surely did not change the felony code. As an alternative, it might amend the civil code so {that a} sufferer may sue the perpetrator for damages, together with punitive damages.
Within the case in Dordrecht, a 28-year-old man from Rotterdam was given a three-month suspended jail time period — that means he will not must serve the sentence except he commits one other crime — and ordered to pay his sufferer 1,000 euros ($1,073) in damages.
One other man was acquitted in a separate stealthing trial as a result of the court docket mentioned it was not confirmed that he had the intent to drive his accomplice to have unprotected intercourse.