Italy's top court rules physical appearance 'irrelevant' in rape cases

The physical appearance of an alleged rape victim is “wholly irrelevant" and is a "non-decisive" element in assessing her case, Italian judges at Rome's supreme Court of Cassation stated on Tuesday after overturning the acquittals of two men accused of rape. A lower court in Ancona had acquitted the pair in 2017 with a panel of three female judges saying the victim looked “too masculine” to be raped.
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