Young man (23) convicted of rape, until lie detector test changes everything: “I was under a lot of stress, but it turned out to be my salvation”

After a summer festival in Brasschaat, a then 19-year-old young man had sex in his car with a young lady he was taking home. She denied that she had agreed to this. Initially, the young man was sentenced to three years in prison for rape for the 2021 facts, but the court of appeal in Antwerp has now acquitted him. And that after a lie detector test. “It was a word-for-word situation,” says Advocate General Marc Verhelst, who advocates the use of the device in sex crimes.

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