Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20160225032648/@comment-25926288-20160518163653

Hmcooper4 wrote: Eskaver wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_deceptionI can give people a pass on glamouring as other people and whether it's a crime when magic is involved, I'd say not really.

Rape by deception is through: fraud, impersonation, or trickery. Zelena impersonated Marian, so it is rape.

Now, if Zelena was a good guy, trying to get the Evil Robin's trust to spill his evil plans and pretended to be his wife and had sex with him........people tend to give that person a pass, but it's still wrong. Now, it is also right to consider if Robin initiated it, but as far as we know, we don't. Really?! using Wikipedia as a source to support your arguments is a bit wrong. Most of my professers would have immediately flunked me if I had used wikipedia as a source. But, whatever.

But even in the article, the whole situation that Zelena and Robin had fell into a gray area that, from a legal standpoint, is going to be hard to provide a judgment.

And as for giving people a pass on glamouring, sorry, but Identity theft is a huge no-no in my book, and Zelena is definitly guilty of that by any legal standard. (But that is off topic). Using Wikipedia to tell you that the term does exist is perfectly fine. I'm not going to go out of my way to read through pages of litigation to discover and ephasize rape by deception.

From a magical and legal standpoint, Zelena would be found guilty and I'm pretty sure Zelena would pretty much confess to it based on what she has said. Zelena's not one to not confess that she killed Neal and she glamoured herself as Marian, killed Marian, and then took her place as Roin's wife. If Rumple has a tape recorder or someone grab a dreamcatcher, she'd be guilty as she could ever be.

The issue you present is Robin is the victim and you're not having sympathy for him. Who cares if it's proveable in the court of nonmagicals! Robin was voilated via deception to which Zelena admits and Robin admits and Baby Hood is also proof.

In brevity, just because a court deems a person not guilty, doesn't mean that that perpetrator didn't do the crime. We know that Robin was decieved into sexual relations, we have both sides agreeing, so it is what it is.

(I know playing Devil's advocate and so)