GoFundMe bans men’s rights group that called rape victim a ‘skank’
Justice for Innocent Men Scotland was trying to raise money to make a documentary about its activities
A controversial men’s rights group which described a rape survivor as a “skank” has been halted from fundraising for a documentary after it was ruled to be a “legal defence of violent crimes”.
Justice for Innocent Men Scotland (Jims) insists that it is a legitimate campaign organisation which fights for “fair trials and against wrongful convictions”.
However, it recently emerged that members privately used offensive and abusive language to describe Ellie Wilson, 28, who as a student covertly recorded her former boyfriend Daniel McFarlane confessing to raping her. Her evidence helped to convict McFarlane, who was jailed for five years in 2022.
Last month Jims launched an appeal, via the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, to create a “powerful new documentary film that exposes the devastating human cost of wrongful convictions and calls for urgent reform”. It has now been shut down.
