
Outraged Montanans move to oust judge who jailed rapist for 30 days
Story here. Excerpt:
'Montana residents are fuming and on a campaign to oust a state judge who ruled that a teacher who raped a 14-year-old girl — who subsequently killed herself — deserves only 30 days behind bars.
What made the sentence more shocking to many was District Judge Todd Baugh’s remarks in court: He said that even though the girl, Cherice “Cherry” Morales, was decades younger than her attacker, Stacey Dean Rambold, 54, and obviously troubled, taped police interviews showed she was “as much in control of the situation” as Rambold. The judge also said the girl was “older than her chronological age.”
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Meanwhile, Montanans have been sending protesters to his courthouse in Billings. The Montana National Organization for Women also has asked the state to step in and force a longer jail sentence for Rambold.'
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Mandatory minimum sentencing
That'd pretty much do it-- as long as it was applied to all teachers who "sleep with" (if female) or "rape" (if male) students. Project Exile done in Virginia and other states that have adopted similar policies put in jail for 5 years a lot of people who otherwise would have used the unlicensed handguns they had to commit crimes, and the handgun-facilitated crime rates dropped noticably.
So why not five years minimum for teachers, or more generally, adults, caught engaging in non-forcible sexual acts with people below the age of consent or otherwise breaking role-based restrictions on the same (e.g., some states prohibit sex entirely between teachers and students regardless of age). [Of course, forcible acts ought to be prosecuted more in line with the more typical concept of "rape", and re anything an adult does to a person under a certain age, the particular more severe laws already in place to address that should apply.] And, apply it without regard to sex. Then see how fast this incessant teacher-student thing grinds to a halt.
there have been hundreds
of instances where females walk for what men typically get decades behind bars for doing. one man gets a light sentence and the old media lights up in chorus wanting the judge's head on a platter.
its amazing how many people (and many, many males) are too dumb(?) to understand how one sided laws enable people to continue their horrific activities, in this case against 'the children'. the more 'equality before the law' rightfully comes to the forefront in our society, the more we are seeing certain privileged sects argue that it is unfair to them.
I believe that until there are serious laws enforced against women who falsely claim (as though entitled) d.v., rape and molestation, we can never approach anything like justice for everyone before the law. justice doesn't just happen, and making harsher laws against just one group ain't getting us there.