Woman admits to sexually assaulting her four children in the 1990s

Story here. If this were a man, it would have been front page news in Boston.com with several other articles that would overview the case in detail. Also, the woman got out of harsher charges because she invoked her her neo-feminist jurisprudence override and claimed she was "abused". Funny how these issues get worked out very differently in public opinion and sentencing. Excerpt:

'A Lowell mother has pleaded guilty to raping her four children, putting an end to a 16-year-old case that was reactivated last month when the Massachusetts Appeals Court overturned her conviction.

Nancy Adkinson, 49, was convicted in a jury-waived trial in Middlesex Superior Court in 1997 and given a sentence that would have kept her behind bars until she was 70 years old. However, the appeals court ruled last month that Adkinson was a battered woman whose husband, Corby Adkinson, also controlled the trial strategy that led to her conviction. The court ordered a new trial.

On Tuesday, Nancy Adkinson pleaded guilty to the same charges at a Woburn courthouse and was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Leila Kern to up to 16 years in state prison for four counts of rape, and up to 10 years for three counts of indecent assault and battery and three counts of distributing cocaine to a minor.'