16-year-old raped in the metaverse, investigation opened – first case in the UK
There British police opened an investigation into a“virtual” sexual assault against a 16 year old girl. Repubblica writes it, specifying that the girl was wearing a virtual reality headset and was playing an immersive game in the Metaverse when his avatar was surrounded. Although the minor did not suffer physical damage, some police sources underline that she may have experienced psychological damage like women who are victims of violence.
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The question of whether virtual rape is “really rape” dates back at least to 1993when the Village Voice published an article by Julian Dibbell on “a rape in cyberspace“. Dibbell's article reported how the people behind the avatars, sexually assaulted in a virtual community, experienced emotions similar to those of victims of physical rape. As reported by “Il Messaggero”, the British Home Secretary, James Cleverlystated that “it is easy to dismiss this incident as if it were not real, but the predominant characteristic of these virtual spaces is precisely that of being incredibly realistic and engaging”.
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