Kansas judge calls girls, 13 and 14, the 'aggressor' in a child sex solicitation case

Fox News ^ | February 4, 2019 | Robert Gearty

[jazusamo]

Kansas judge Michael Gibbens (l.) sentenced Raymond Soden, 67, (r.) in a child sex solicitation
case after saying the two victims, girls, 13 and 14 were "more agressor than a participant in the
criminal conduct." (Leavenworth County Bar Association/ Kansas Department of Corrections)

A Kansas judge has come under fire for saying in court that two girls--solicited by an online predator to have sex with him when they were 13 and 14--were partly to blame for what happened to them.

“I do find that the victims in this case, in particular, were more an aggressor than a participant in the criminal conduct,” Leavenworth County Judge Michael Gibbens said in remarks delivered at a December sentencing for a 67-year-old man who paid for sex with the two girls, according to a report in the Kansas City Star.

[grania]

It got out of hand about 30 years ago. Our culture and children not being supervised in activities where they stay children were replaced with very deranged cultural norms. If I ran the world, it's the parents or guardians who would be put in jail.

We're beyond that, and beyond saving.