Do Female Sex Offenders Receive a Lighter Punishment Compared to Males?

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2011-02-14 06:47

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sentencing for an Okaloosa sex offender has sparked a lot of discussion. 31-year old Michelle Kemp had sex with a 15-year-old boy but she will not be going to prison. The lawyers on both sides of the case insist, when it comes to sex crimes, the judicial system is not sexist.

Michelle Kemp was arrested back in August 2009 for having sex with a 15-year-old. The boy's family decided not to press charges if the relationship stopped-- but it didn’t. In December, Kemp drove more than 100 miles from her home in Crestview to pick the boy up at a drug treatment center in Bay County, where the two had sex again.
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It was a very different case for Tim McGarry. The former Thomas Drive Fire Chief is serving a 40-year sentence for having sex with underage girls. The disparity in treatment makes some wonder if the judicial system is sexist when it comes to sex crimes.

District 1 Chief Assistant State Attorney Bill Bishop says no.

"We don't make any distinction one way or another whether or not someone who commits a sexual offense is a male or a female. We make our decisions based on the evidence we have available and the witnesses we have available to prosecute" Bishop says.'

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keep expecting the truth to come out of a lawyer's mouth?

isn't that the def of stupidity? expecting different results,

time after time?

let's not forget these vultures are making blood $$ out of this.

true justice, equality, fairness, truth, and honor in a courtroom

would put them out of business. they would have no clue how to proceed.

lying is small potatoes to these things.

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Submitted by daveinga on Tue, 2011-02-15 04:11