Teenager Accused of Rape Deserves Leniency Because He's From a 'Good Family,' Judge Says

[SummerMadness]

Teenager Accused of Rape Deserves Leniency Because He's From a 'Good Family,' Judge Says

The 16-year-old girl was visibly intoxicated, her speech slurred, when a drunk 16-year-old boy sexually assaulted her in a dark basement during an alcohol-fueled pajama party in New Jersey, prosecutors said.

The boy filmed himself penetrating her from behind, her torso exposed, her head hanging down, prosecutors said. He later shared the cellphone video among friends, investigators said, and sent a text that said, “When your first time having sex was rape.”

But a family court judge said it wasn’t rape. Instead, he wondered aloud if it was sexual assault, defining rape as something reserved for an attack at gunpoint by strangers.

I don't think we have to hazard a guess as to why a judge would make such an argument.

 

[FireDragon76]

Character matters, not your family... what's next, a caste system?

 

[Hieronymus]

Teenager Accused of Rape Deserves Leniency Because He's From a 'Good Family,' Judge Says


I don't think we have to hazard a guess as to why a judge would make such an argument.

I think we always should ask questions if we want to form a valid opinion.
Boy of influencial family?
Judge could be a doofus or compromized.

 

[Dave-W]

Sorry, but he deserves the death penalty.

 

[PeachyKeane]

Sounds like the judge was warned, and the kid will be charged as an adult.

New Jersey judge spared teen rape suspect because he came from 'good family'

 

[PeachyKeane]

From my own link above:

'[Judge] Troiano also "expressed concern that the prosecutor did not indicate ... that she had explained to Mary and her mother the devastating effect" adult charges would have on G.M.C.'s life, the appeals court ruling said.'

This kid raped her, filmed it, sent the video to his friends, labelled it as rape while sending it, and refused to stop sending in when she asked him not to.

'Have you considered the negative effects these charges could have on your rapist?'

Wow!

 

[hislegacy]

From my own link above:

'[Judge] Troiano also "expressed concern that the prosecutor did not indicate ... that she had explained to Mary and her mother the devastating effect" adult charges would have on G.M.C.'s life, the appeals court ruling said.'

This kid raped her, filmed it, sent the video to his friends, labelled it as rape while sending it, and refused to stop sending in when she asked him not to.

'Have you considered the negative effects these charges could have on your rapist?'

Wow!

My personal opinion he should bear the ramifications of his actions and feel the full weight of the law.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

If he had let her drown in a creek, he could be a Democratic Senator.

Does that help the topic?

No.

 

[rambot]

Ford withdrew her accusation.

What's this?

 

[SummerMadness]

What's this?

A lie meant to derail the thread into a discussion about something that never happened.

 

[cow451]

We cannot have the futures of young men from fine upstanding families being derailed by drunk teenaged girls who shouldn’t be out drinking and wearing enticing outfits. America must protect its future leaders and pillars of the community! **


** Paid for by the Midwest Association for Grain Alcohol. “Alcohol: It always has your back.”

 

[PeachyKeane]

My personal opinion he should bear the ramifications of his actions and feel the full weight of the law.

Well, yeah.

I think the issue is a justice system that believes that children of 'good families' who attend 'good schools' should somehow receive preferable treatment in a trial.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

The common folk just need to get it through their thick skulls that being born into privilege and wealth automatically makes you better than the common people and above the laws set to regulate the lower classes.

 

[cow451]

The common folk just need to get it through their thick skulls that being born into privilege and wealth automatically makes you better than the common people and above the laws set to regulate the lower classes.