[Lance Romance]

After McSweeney's controversial sentence, Murphy chastized the young girl for wanting a harsher sentence on her attacker.

I think a related article from the Globe has already been posted. But this judge is a disgrace. Then again Massachusetts is a state that elects Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Gary Studds.........

[unamused]

Hey, it was just sex. It's nobody else's business...< /sarcasm>

[tonycavanagh]

re : She can't go through life as a victim,'' Murphy told a prosecutor, according to courthouse sources. ``She's 14. She got raped. Tell her to get over it.''

I don’t believe any decent man could say this. Wait until he has children a daughter then maybe he may change his mind on rape.

[oldvike]

I hate liberals!!!!! They are utterly insane!! This judge must be taken to the woodshed and "reprimanded".

[kassie]

Did some plea bargaining go on? The guy admitted to raping her...why on earth would he just get probabtion??

[SpinyNorman]

On Friday, Judge Suzanne DelVecchio, the head of the state's superior courts, said she wouldn't remove Murphy. Instead, she wants him to attend a ``judge rookie school.''

Maybe she ought to consider that before they take the bench!! And maybe, just maybe, DelVecchio should sit in on a few courses as well.

I bet Tom Daschole would appoint Murphy in a heartbeat if the President submitted him for congressional approval!!!!

[Publius6961]

Aren't judges in Mass. ever subject to periodic election "confirmation"?

In California they are. Rose Bird, he he he he.

[Ronin]

``She can't go through life as a victim,'' Murphy told a prosecutor, according to courthouse sources. ``She's 14. She got raped. Tell her to get over it.''

If this is not grounds for removal of the judge from the bench, I can't imagine what could be.

[Sally II]

``She can't go through life as a victim,'' Murphy told a prosecutor, according to courthouse sources. ``She's 14. She got raped. Tell her to get over it.''

Yep, you can read a lot between the lines there. This judge seems to think that rape is just part of growing up. What does that say about him? After such a comment would anyone be surprised to find out that he's raped a few teenagers in his life? I sure wouldn't want to raise my kids in that state.

[spunkets]

"``She can't go through life as a victim,'' Murphy told a prosecutor, according to courthouse sources. ``She's 14. She got raped. Tell her to get over it.''"

This judge deserves a severe beating and another one after he recovers from the first.

[neutrino]

Actually, I have a perfect solution to the judge. However, it would violate posting guidelines rather badly, so I best not continue.

[VRWCmember]

No doubt the only offense this idiot would sentence harshly is owning/carrying a gun without proper approvals from the state of Taxachussetts. I'm sure he would throw the book at anyone who had the audacity to use a gun for self-defense.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

""On Friday, Judge Suzanne DelVecchio, the head of the state's superior courts, said she wouldn't remove Murphy. Instead, she wants him to attend a ``judge rookie school.''""

JUDGE SCHOOL??

[Nea Wood]

The young girl, with her hair in a pony tail and wearing heavy eyeliner and jeans, said she has not been able to live a normal life since the rape. She didn't attend the final tryout to be a varsity cheerleader, which she described as being her ``life.''

These comments struck me the wrong way. What does the heaviness of her eyeliner have to do with anything? Seems to me the writer is trying to make her out to be loose or a tramp who deserved it, and/or an airheaded cheerleader. I thought the days were over when the clothing, makeup and personal life of a rape victim was relevant.

[lawdude]

"`She can't go through life as a victim,'' Murphy told a prosecutor, according to courthouse sources. ``She's 14. She got raped. Tell her to get over it.'' "

Perhaps a very large fellow named "Bruce the Butt Banger" should pay the good jurist a visit and explain homosexual rape to him in a graphic fashion! Maybe then he would understand the law!

If I was that young girls father, the judge and I would have a conference away from the bench!

[SuziQ]

``She can't go through life as a victim,'' Murphy told a prosecutor, according to courthouse sources. ``She's 14. She got raped. Tell her to get over it.''

If this guy ever gets 'done' by some perv, I'll be curious to see if he'll be quite as cavalier about the subject!

[doug from upland]

And, it is the home of William Rivers Pitt.