Posted on 07/03/2019 2:59:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Nah, the judge wanted to know if the “ good boy”, had any other sex videos, of course the judge would want to see those videos too.
Judge who said teen rape suspect was ‘from a good family’ steps down
NY Post ^ | 7/17/19 | Chris Perez
Posted on 7/18/2019 2:31:55 AM by Libloather
Or, you could have a son brought up on such charges after attending a typical high school bacchanalia, based on the allegations of a drunken teenage girl, supposedly damning evidence from another, probably equally incapacitated teen’s cell phone, a text message, and a coercive police interrogation.
All this is from a sensationalized media account based on a selective quote from remarks made by the judge. This is after previous, infamous prosecutions like The Duke Lacrosse team, the Rolling Stone smears published against a Virginia fraternity or the fantastic claims made against the last Supreme Court nominee.
Also, despite the writer’s obvious intention to churn up an outrage (’if it bleeds, it leads’), the incident is not described as ‘rape.’ It was described as “sexual assault, ‘ a nebulous term for anything ranging from a joke about ‘pubic hair on my coke can’ to a frenzied attack by muslim rioters on a journalist who wandered too far off the reservation. This is ongoing, and in a culture saturated with media-disseminated (pun intended) incitements to have sex with anything and everything anywhere.
Final point: The parents’ prior efforts to raise their son to be a responsible member of society by such things as years carting him every week to boy scout meetings, and their probable willingness to punish him, are to have no bearing on the outcome. Nor do the illegal actions made by the girl and/or her parents have any place in deciding his punishment.
Now this kid will be labeled a sex offender, the record will proceed him everywhere he goes for the rest of his life, based on a drunken night when he was 16.
Is he guilty of rape? I don’t know. All I know is that he deserves the presumption of innocence granted to any offender.
By the way, it just so happens that the kid is not an adult.
I am also in favor of such punishment for the guilty, as to inject shock and awe into the hearts of potential offenders, and make "typical high school bacchanalia" so vanishingly rare as to be practically nonexistent.
Well, seems harsh to label a 16 year old as sex offender. He’ll probably be registered and tracked online for the rest of his life. Tried as an adult, he’ll be beyond redemption.
But I agree, vigorous prosecution would mean fewer such incidents. I do think all parties should suffer the consequences, including the girl who hosted the party, the attendees, and the parents.
How would you like him in the future as a juror on an Epstein trial, much bias?
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