Posted on 06/23/2023 7:25:52 AM PDT by rod5591
NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana woman who was 16 when her boss coerced her to perform a sex act was aghast when a judge let the man walk free on probation — and she blames a prosecutor who she says misled her and the judge prior to the sentencing.
But her efforts to hold the prosecutor accountable have run into a roadblock at the state's highest court, which says longstanding court doctrine immunizes prosecutors from civil liability.
Gabrielle Jameson, who was sexually assaulted in 2019 and is now 20, says she made clear to Assistant District Attorney Iain Dover in St. Tammany Parish that she wanted Jeremy Schake, 27, to spend a full year in prison.
She was angered when Burris let Schake walk, especially after having told Dover that Schake should go to prison.
“I said I wanted him to have one year of jail time — not five years, not 10 years,” Jameson said. "Three hundred sixty-five days so he could, hopefully, be rehabilitated in some way, shape or form, so he wouldn’t hurt other people.”
Chief Justice John Weimer provided a fifth vote to dismiss the Jameson lawsuit, not because he believed the prosecutor was entitled to immunity. He held that state law doesn’t provide for civil damages to a crime victim because a judge imposed a sentence the victim didn’t like.
At Le Mon’s Louisiana office last week, Jameson, who recently earned a bachelor’s degree in art and photography from Savannah College of Art and Design, spread an array of haunting photos in front of her. The collection, entitled “Growth from Pain,” includes images of different parts of a woman’s body — bedecked with bandages and wildflowers.
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I feel that her embrace of victimhood rather than responsibility will work against her in the long run.
If she’s under the age of consent, she can’t possibly have anything to claim as “victimhood.”
I’m upset you are pro-rape.
Hard to sue for damages without a criminal conviction. Her former boss obviously has shallow pockets so she goes after the prosecutor.
Sad to say, this will continue to happen until people finally have had enough and demand mandatory sentences without judicial discretion. A 16 year old rape victim IS a victim to anyone who can comprehend the English language.
And, has she armed herself?
Betcha no.
So, you think that the rapist of a 16 year old should go free, and she should just suck it up?
I think you are missing the point. I don’t think she wants money. She wants a prosecutor who doesn’t work for the criminals.
The minuimum age you can possess a gun on your person in Louisiana is 18, so if she armed herself she’d probably be punished more harshly than the rapist. Do you still think she got what she deserved?
I’ve always carried a good knife, since I was young.
The rapist was convicted and sentenced... to probation. The victim wanted her abuser to do jail time.
If the rapey boss was 18 or 21, you might have a point. But he was 11 years older than she, and in a position to abuse the power imbalance. If he was competent enough to be a "boss", surely he had come to understand the concept of "jail bait" by that age.
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