article_snippet.sent: Buckley, District Judge Nigel Cadbury District Judge Nigel Cadbury said: 'It's very, very worrying how young girls put young girls in such very, very vulnerable positions' - prompting anger from domestic abuse and rape charities .
article_snippet.sent: this’s very, very worrying how young girls put young girls in such very, very vulnerable positions.
article_snippet.sent: excess … But for a senior figure within the legal system to talk so specifically about young girls “making themselves vulnerable” in relation to gender-based violence … with specific reference to a recent murder, is unhelpful.
article_snippet.sent: This reinforces the false notion that it is ultimately victims and potential victims who have the power and responsibility to prevent violence against women and girls. '
article_snippet.sent: In fact, only the perpetrators, who are mostly men, are to blame for violence against women and girls … and only they ultimately have the power to end it.
article_snippet.sent: Women's rights campaigners have said Judge Cadbury's comments as 'unhelpful' and making it seems like 'sexual violence is in some way inevitable' Sarah Green, of campaign group End Violence Against Women, said: ‘District Judge Nigel Cadbury seems to be perpetuating the idea that young women drinking alcohol put young women drinking alcohol at risk of attack.
article_snippet.sent: Even if it is not meant, this implies sexual violence is in some way inevitable
article_snippet.sent: it makes the perpetrators of these crimes all but invisible.
article_snippet.sent: She added that focus should be shifted ‘to the men who choose to commit these crimes – because violence against women is not inevitable.
article_snippet.sent: We must start asking who commits rape and why … and what can We do to deter rape.