Rapist gets off easy because of his victim's sexual history

[Eamon Arasbard]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/sir-young-rapist-gets-light-sentence_n_5251116.html

 

According to this, the rapist was given 45 days in jail, five years on probation, plus community service, because his victim had had previous boyfriends, and because she had gotten pregnant before. (She was 14.) The implication of this sentence is that you do not deserve the same protection under the law if the judge does not approve of your sex life.

 

The woman who handed out this decision needs to be disbarred.

[Nicky]

The judge who handed down the sentence spent weeks considering the facts of the case. You read an article about it. Maybe she deserves a little more credit than what you're giving her.

[dream_weaver]

Dallas judge recuses herself from case of admitted rapist sentenced to probation

 

State District Judge Jeanine Howard has recused herself from the case of a rapist she sentenced to five years probation.

 

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After Howard’s recusal, the case is now assigned to state District Judge Carter Thompson.

 

Also Friday, the district attorney’s office said it plans to file a motion asking Thompson to reconsider the conditions of Young’s probation. The judge can say no or hold a hearing about the matter or change the probation conditions.

 

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The recusal was done in response to the public reaction to the sentencing.

 

Texas judge Jeanine Howard recuses herself from rape case after criticism over sentencing

 

Howard told the Dallas Morning News: “There are rape cases that deserve life. There are rape cases that deserve 20 years. Every now and then you have one of those that deserve probation. This is one of those and I stand by it.”

 

If, after the Honorable Judge Carter Thompson reviews the case, the sentencing is left to stand, she won't be standing alone. Given the age of the principles of the case, the likelihood acquiring the transcript and examining the submitted evidence for ones self is going to make rendering a fair and partial verdict of the magistrate pawn to the selective details presented by the press.

[Eamon Arasbard]

 

The judge who handed down the sentence spent weeks considering the facts of the case. You read an article about it. Maybe she deserves a little more credit than what you're giving her.

 

“She wasn’t the victim she claimed to be."

 

A Texas judge used those words to justify the lighter-than-light sentence she gave to a rapist, telling the Dallas Morning News that the 14-year-old victim had three previous sexual partners and had given birth before the sexual assault.

 

Unless the article is lying outright, I think this pretty clearly establishes the nature of the decision.