Posted on 07/26/2014 8:42:46 AM PDT by jazusamo
A feminist studies professor at a California state university accused of forcibly grabbing an anti-abortion activist’s poster and assaulting the 16-year-old girl has pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor charges.
University of California at Santa Barbara Associate Professor Mireille Miller-Young was charged with one count each of grand theft, vandalism and battery in connection to the March 4 incident involving 16-year-old Thrin Short, her older sister, Joan, and other pro-life activists who were holding signs in a free speech zone on the campus when the professor went berserk.
Miller-Young, who remains employed by the university, and her attorney, Catherine Swysen, did not respond to requests for comment. The charges reportedly carry the possibility of jail time, but sources close to the matter say Miller-Young is likely to be ordered to pay a fine, perform community and undergo counseling when she’s sentenced on Aug. 14.
According to a police report on the March 4 incident, Miller-Young told police that she was pregnant and was “triggered” by the protesters’ signs and the graphic images depicted on them.
“We hope that the sentence as a whole will unambiguously undo the ‘good example’ she believes she set for her students, both in her own mind and theirs,” Katie Short, the girls’ mother and legal director of Life Legal Defense Foundation, wrote FoxNews.com in an email.
Thrin and Joan Short said they had distributed nearly 1,000 informational pamphlets during the event, which was organized by the Riverside-based nonprofit Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. Things took an unexpected turn when, according to Short, Miller-Young approached the demonstrators and a group of students who had gathered.
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Beer goggles and 2:00am....
I hear you.
Even in CA I doubt battery or grand theft is a misdemeanor.
Does it? My information is that university compensation is closely tied to workload: no teaching, no checks. That may just be a circumspect (wink-wink) way of saying what their personnel-privacy policy forbids them from announcing: that they've suspended her without pay. Indeed, now that she's pled "no contest," they may go ahead and terminate her employment altogether, after giving her due-process.
We'll see. Someone enterprising may follow up in coming months to report on her status. Are you volunteering?
If she’s worth her salt, she’ll volunteer to register people to vote. And then she’ll simply refuse to register anyone Republican. That’s what a dedicated Leftist would do.
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