WBRZ reached out to Judge Jeffrey Cashe, who made the custody decision. An employee in his office said judicial canons prevent the judge from talking about it.
Posted on 06/14/2022 11:40:25 AM PDT by Fuzz
PONCHATOULA- It's one of the most egregious cases victims' advocates tell the WBRZ Investigative Unit they have ever seen, after a judge awarded full custody to a woman's abuser and forced her to pay child support.
This story dates back decades and involves a woman who was raped at the age of 16 by a man almost twice her age.
(Excerpt) Read more at wbrz.com ...
If you cannot get somebody held accountable within the law...
It’s Louisiana so I have no problem believing it. But in all fairness, money and connections count more than the law in every state. But this is beyond the pale.
How about we find abuse cases from 200 BC? How about Pakistan today? This cherry picking crap has gone far enough. Every type of person has received abuse at some point. So what?
There are no laws. Only tyranny.
“ If reported accurately..”
Just from the headline I can tell it’s not.
I have never understood not reporting a rape. pretending it didn’t happen or trying to forget that it happened just means that someone else may share your fate. Why allow that to happen?
Judge Jeffrey Cashe needs to be impeached and convicted for malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance. He then needs to be disbarred.
If, as I suspect, Ponchatoula is in Louisiana, we must remember that LA law is based on the Code Napoleon and is very different than the laws of the other 50 states.
The article repeatedly calls the father a rapist, but admits he was never convicted of rape nor even ever charged
“The article repeatedly calls the father a rapist, but admits he was never convicted of rape nor even ever charged”
True, she did file a police report, several years after and it was never investigated. But she was 16 at the time, so it was rape regardless.
If that guy was here I know some people who could permanently take care of the problem for a case of beer. A number of people have “disappeared” over the years. All without a trace. And we only have a river, not gator friendly bayous like Louisiana.
Sounds like the statutory rapist father is influential in town and is getting preferential treatment.
Sounds like the kind of client Cankles specialized in.
I have a hard time accepting the account. One of the challenges men face, is that once someone charges them with any type of sexual assault, they are stuck with the impossible burden of proving a negative. Every guy who’s been through divorce knows this.
It sounds like once he found out the kid was his, he has tried to be part of the child’s life. With a rape accusation against him, he has to be super careful.
I pro bono helped a kid years ago on a parole violation. He had been sentenced for statutory rape. He had just turned 19, and met a girl at a party. She told him and others she was 18, which she admitted, and had ID with that age. Her parents pushed the charges against him, because she was 16, and the state had a “no more than two years” rule for statutory rape victim under 18.
In this case, we don’t know what happened when they met, whether it was consensual, whether she lied about her age, none of it. We don’t know what the judge knows. We just know that a lot of years later, in the midst of a custody battle, she raised the charges. Most crimes have a short statute of limitations, because evidence goes away, and people’s memories fade. This one has a thirty year limit. When was it raised, ten years later? I’m not judging this guy, until a lot more facts come out.
This might make me a bad person, but if I was describing a consensual act between a 16 year old and 30 year old I would be careful to label it most accurately as “statutory rape”, and not just “rape”, which is always non consensual.
I would do this even acknowledging there is a question of whether someone so young can really give valid consent, or if there were was a power imbalance and so on. We can discuss these things without just calling it straight rape which can only bring to mind forcible rape.
As for assuming it must be true, sorry I wouldn’t assume a report made 3 years after the event can be assumed to be true. There are all kinds of reasons why people lie.
There is also something called “regret rape”, where people give consent and then days later decide they regret it and make false rape accusations to ruin someone for life...
“ she did file a police report, several years after”
Experiencing regret does not equal rape.
WBRZ reached out to Judge Jeffrey Cashe, who made the custody decision. An employee in his office said judicial canons prevent the judge from talking about it.
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