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First some background provided in a great Dkos post:
1. A 14-year old girl is raped by 18-year old self-confessed rapist.
2. Judge gives rapist only 45-day jail sentence after facing 20 years.
3. Judge defers rapist's 5-year probation - no need for him to get any help.
4. Judge orders rapist to do community service at rape crisis center.
5. Judge asks victim during trial, several times, if she cried during the rape.
6. Judge tells press, "She's not the victim she claims to be." - not a virgin.
Now go back to #1 where it says, 'girl is raped'.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/03/1296542/-Dallas-Judge-Asks-Victim-If-She-Cried-During-Rape-5-More-Actions-That-Make-This-Judge-Unfit
Now the recusal:
State District Judge Jeanine Howard has recused herself from the case of a rapist she sentenced to five years probation.
Howards decision came Friday in reaction to the fallout from last weeks sentence for 20-year-old Sir Young, who admitted to raping a 14-year-old girl at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, where both were students. Young was 18 at the time of the 2011 assault.
n addition to the sentence, Young does not have to stay away from children, attend sex offender treatment, undergo sex offender evaluation or refrain from watching pornography.
Howard told The Dallas Morning News that she gave Young his light sentence in part because his victim wasnt a virgin and wasnt the victim she claimed to be. She declined to comment Friday beyond the statements she made Thursday night.
After Howards recusal, the case is now assigned to state District Judge Carter Thompson.
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2014/05/dallas-judge-recuses-herself-from-case-of-admitted-rapist-sentenced-to-probation.html/
dionysus
(26,467 posts)edhopper
(33,615 posts)or Perry no doubt.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)dionysus
(26,467 posts)malokvale77
(4,879 posts)One of two Democratic judges that will not be getting my vote in November
edhopper
(33,615 posts)dreadful.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)Her being a Democrat or me not voting for her? LOL
edhopper
(33,615 posts)Of course. And it's too bad you don't have a candidate to vote for as well.
A blank slate on my ballot.
Dorian Gray
(13,499 posts)I can't believe she asked the young girl repeatedly if she cried.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)the Democratic party abandoned Texas decades ago. Anybody in Dallas can put a "D" by their name and get elected.
It's why I never vote a straight ticket. Another bad judge is Lynn Cherry. What a joke she is. Statewide we have the LaRouche candidate, running on the Dem ticket. It all makes the Democratic party look bad.
Wendy Davis is great, but the DGA won't back her. I think there is an agreement to let big oil and big business have Texas.
Vet these candidates, please.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)You see a lot of this at work with women on juries, "what did she do to cause this that I can/do avoid?"
Shaming and blaming women for their own rape has to stop. Men are the perpetrators 99.99% of the time. Men are the ones who have to figure out how to stop this.
We're only the shattered remains of what a rapist leaves behind.
RandySF
(59,224 posts)The perp admitted to being a rapist and Jeanine Howard was in a position to impose a sentence that fit the crime. To say that women are incapable of making sound legal judgements re. sexual crimes is to argue that they cannot hold judicial office (and we both know it's not true). And no one has asked whether she was so lax because the victim was likely African American.
enough
(13,262 posts)could happen. We all have the tendency to think that anything we know, everybody else knows also. The fact is that many people currently alive, both male and female, are still living under the old conditioning about rape.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)I've just tried to understand women like this and I think I do. I've picked their brains long enough.
Lawyers, especially for the prosecution, need to acknowledge this phenomenon and figure out how to address it. Their conviction rate on rapists is dismal.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)tblue37
(65,487 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)Or one gender.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Most of us, regardless of gender, have nothing to lose and everything to gain from an honest look at things.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Simply having women working within the system doesn't change the system.
It may help, particularly if those women are consciously challenging it, but it doesn't stop it, and those who do challenge it are often discredited and marginalized at the least, more likely punished/demoted/fired.
spanone
(135,873 posts)jeeeeebus
RandySF
(59,224 posts)TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)The rapist is black. She had no problem giving a black man who admitted to being a rapist such a light sentence while blaming the victim whatever her race. What's your point about the race of the victim? Trying to make this a racist issue instead of the sexist one it so obviously is?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Nope, probably not- he would have got 20 years then.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I lived there from 13-24. Moved to Texas in 1992. I really miss C town sometimes (especially in autumn- a season we don't have here).
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)What a city. Definitely NOT the city of the 60's and early 70's. I'm very proud of my hometown.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)so of course I tell everyone it's Cleveland
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)RandySF
(59,224 posts)Even the DA may not agree to it.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)More so because his current (lack of a) sentence is a likely signal to others that they can rape with impunity.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)with rape cases, spousal abuse cases too.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)She wants him to do community service at a rape crisis center?
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,210 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Texasgal
(17,047 posts)RiGHT???