Loophole in Rape law in California

Loophole in Rape law in California  

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/state&id=9008460

In Sacramento an obscure California law set a convicted rapist free because his victim was not married. Tuesday, action was taken to close that loophole in a California rape law from 1872. Lawmakers passed a law that made it a crime to impersonate a married woman's husband in order to get her to consent to sex. That means it's only rape if the victim is married. The bill was once cleared because lawmakers feared prison over crowding.

 The people are more concerned about the definition and how the law excludes some people. Others just want the wording from married to something like sexual partner so it won’t exclude those people. They hope by putting it this way most rapes won’t be pushed away like its nothing.

In California there are about   50.3 percent of women about 60 percent of them are married the rest are single or have boyfriend. This law would matter because if a woman is raped by someone that impersonated her boyfriend the rapist can’t really be prosecuted only if she was married. it would only effect the women but then rapist would run free