Posted on 07/03/2019 2:59:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The family court judges were in different New Jersey counties, but the question prosecutors asked them was the same: Can we charge these male juveniles as adults on allegations of rape?
Judge James Troiano in Monmouth County said a 16-year-old girl who accused a 16-year-old boy of sexually assaulting her — and filming it — at a pajama-themed party should have been told by prosecutors to consider the long-term damage to the boy before she decided to pursue criminal charges against him. G.M.C., as court documents identified the suspect, allegedly sent a text to his friends that read, “When your first time having sex was rape.”
But the boy was college-bound, from a “good family” and an Eagle Scout, the judge said in his denial.
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The 16-year-old girl who attended the basement pajama party told her mom the morning after the alleged attack that she feared “sexual things” had happened and that she did not understand why her body was bruised and her clothes torn, according to court documents. Her family decided to pursue criminal charges several months after the alleged assault.
About 30 teens attended the party, where both the girl and G.M.C. were intoxicated, prosecutors said. The girl had slurred speech and stumbled as she walked.
According to court documents, the two went into a closed-off, dark area. A group of boys sprayed the girl with Febreze and slapped her on the bottom so hard she found hand marks the next day.
Prosecutors said G.M.C. used his cellphone to film himself assaulting the 16-year-old girl... They said he later sent the video to friends and had sexually explicit conversations with them via text message.
In his ruling denying the waiver, Troiano dismissed G.M.C.'s alleged remarks as “just a 16-year-old kid saying stupid crap to his friends.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
This kind of thing happens all the time. From a good family? With money for a good attorney? You will get a better deal.
But the idiot judge should have kept his idiot comments to himself.
Bull excrement!
I wonder how much money was donated to this judge’s favorite “charity” by that kid’s family?
Long-term damage to HIM? What about the long-term damage to HER?
Apparently they wanted her to smell nice for her first rape?
Was she drunk? Or did they drug her? The article said she woke up not knowing what happened.
...And how is this any different than when folks from the lower end of the economic stratum are screaming to anyone, who will listen: “He a gud boi! He dindu nuffin!” So, when you’re rich that becomes: “They’re from a good family.”
Uhm, yeah.
actually I agree with the judge, two roaringly drunk 16 year old having sex in a back room of a private house.
the newspaper interstingly cut another more outragous case with a femal black 12 year old into the article, and it is a bit hard to follow what happened with each case.
I imagine that was purposeful manipulation
Just another example of how our legal system with these idiot judges is our of control.
From a good family? Like a Kennedy?
Rape is rape.
Rapists need to spend a long time behind bars.
Or a Skakel.
Just another case of affluenza. Different rules for the rich than for the middle class. And different again for the poor. Justice and injustice can be bought in America.
I didn’t read the article since it’s paid access, but where were the parents who owned the home where these kids were getting drunk out of their minds?
My exact thoughts too.
A party where 30 teenagers hang out in pajamas and get drunk. What could possibly go wrong?
As defined by the female long after the event.
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