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Boys from good families should be allowed to rape

 
Casper 2019-07-03 18:23:20 

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.

He also said the young man came from a good family, attended an excellent school, had terrific grades and was an Eagle scout.Prosecutors, the judge said, should have explained to the girl and her family that pressing charges would destroy the boy’s life.

 
nitro 2019-07-03 18:30:59 

In reply to Casper

That cannot be a true story. Sick.

 
sgtdjones 2019-07-03 18:49:21 

In reply to nitro

Now the judge has been sharply rebuked by an appeals court in a scathing 14-page ruling that warned the judge against showing bias toward privileged teenagers.

In doing so, the appeals court cleared the way for the case to be moved from family court to a grand jury, where the teenager, identified only as G.M.C. in court documents, will be treated as an adult. New Jersey law allows juveniles as young as 15 to be tried as adults when accused of serious crimes, and the grand jury will weigh whether to indict him on the sexual assault accusation.

 
VIX 2019-07-03 18:52:51 

those misogynistic backward third-world countries are the worst!

wait... nevermind

 
Tryangle 2019-07-03 19:22:52 

In reply to Casper

Affluenza. Or someone getting paid off.

"Oh, he's an Eagle Scout?" "Sure, let him go."

That Judge James Troiano should be cut loose right away.

 
Kay 2019-07-03 19:32:49 

In reply to Tryangle

They didn't say if the family was rich just good. I am thinking if they were rich this may have already been settled out of court....

 
maj 2019-07-03 20:02:00 

In reply to VIX

you mean like India where gang rape is a passage of life..

 
Chrissy 2019-07-03 20:55:41 

In reply to Casper

The judge should be impeached. Wonder how many he raped on his way tot he judgeship.

 
Emir 2019-07-03 21:08:03 

In reply to Chrissy

He is retired but I do wish we can recall his retirement perks. But alas, the public shaming will follow him until his death.