FKA Twigs Condemns Shia LaBeouf’s Request for Private Records Ahead of Trial

[hewontgo]

In a new filing, FKA Twigs says Shia LaBeouf’s attorneys are ‘improperly’ seeking private medical and financial records ahead of his October sexual-assault and battery trial. https://t.co/RzwKf24l3d
- Vulture (@vulture) June 26, 2024

Lawyers for FKA Twigs have filed a motion condemning Shia LaBeouf’s request for her private records.
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[skyler_white_yo]

Poor Twigs. Men use the legal system all the time to further abuse the women who got away from them.

[trekkiepetrelli]

and Johnny Depp showed them all how it's done

[adrock]

their argument seems to be “she didn’t suffer enough medically or financially for the abuse to be real/have mattered” and it might work with the general public. surviving is a strike against you and it’s wild.

[itsme_eloise]

surviving is a strike against you

god this is the fucking truth. the only thing an abused woman can do right in the eyes of the public is die.

[kawaiiairbender]

And even then it's 'why didn't she pick better' and 'why didn't she leave?'

[itsme_eloise]

the only thing people want to do for abused women is have their “that’s sad, huh” moment

[xdecadentx]

Sadly I wouldn't be surprised if the court grants this, because they don't seem to gaf about the woman's privacy when it comes to DV and SA.

The UK I think has a rule that basically says if you don't willingly give up your phone to forensics as a SA victim they can drop charges or something. It might be a bit more in depth than that but it bugged the fuck out of me when I saw it.

[insomniachobs]

There's no rule that says charges will be dropped if an SA victim doesn't turn over their phone, but in practicality the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service, the ones who decide if charges proceed to trial) are reluctant to pursue cases without the phone records. And with the police leaning so heavily on the possibility in order to coax victims into turning over their phones... it's not a rule but it might as well be.

The excuse I generally hear is that so many SA cases are he said/she said, so many of them have little objective forensic evidence, that without the records it's felt there's little prospect of conviction. I have little time for that excuse. It's basically saying that rapists get to escape accountability because they choose to commit their crimes in intimate settings.

[eva_hagberg]

How would phone records support or deny the charges anyway? Grr.

[insomniachobs]

Because so many rapes are perpetrated by someone the victim is dating or at least knows, there are often text conversations etc which are deemed relevant. Particularly any that occurred after the rape has taken place.

The whole thing uncomfortably smacks to me of hunting for things the defence is likely to use to undermine the victim - "they had a history of consensual sex," "she kept talking to him after," all those things that people take to mean sex was more likely to be consensual despite there being any number of reasons why that's not necessarily the case.

[ahkna]

She deserves everything. This man is a vicious beast and knows he can get away with it.

[deja_vu822]

oof i'm nervous for this trial to happen. i hope shia doesn't have stans out there who will make it even more awful for twigs, but there seems to be a loud fanbase for every awful man.

[la_fours]

I don't think he really has stans per se, but I do think that this trial will mobilize all the worst men and pick mes who pop up anytime women confront their tormentors.

I just hope that her supporters are just as vocal.

[janetdkd]

Every man that humiliates women in public has stans

[goldenhera]

Just like with Depp, many of these people don't give a shit about Shia, they just want to back an abuser.