AIBU to think the judge’s comments in this case are completely inappropriate?

A white college-age swim star raped an unconscious 18-yr-old girl (was she 17?) outside behind a dumpster in California years ago now. Two other young men came upon the scene and stopped him - luckily.
I believe the judge stated that the young man had his whole life to live and he came from a very good family and he didn’t want to ruin his life or swim career, so he sentenced him to 3 or 6 months or some ridiculously easy punishment.
It was all over the news and people were outraged.
It was sickening - and I think they ran the judge off the bench. It wasn’t in my area and it was years ago so I don’t remember the particulars.

Judges can be awful - because judges are people. And occasionally they forget why they are sitting up there in their black robes deciding exactly who gets to keep their head, and who loses theirs.

It would give me the greatest pleasure to drive a Rusty nail through the perps balls.

Let’s see which judge dictates his “human rights”say he cannot be thereafter deported.

These animals should be thrown out of our country back to the hovels they came from.
That girl will live with the memory for the rest of her life.
I truly think our judges and police force are totally divorced from reality and corrupt.

We need a damned good clearout of the dross in our judicial system.

Not if they are brown or muslim or asylum seekers. Same old same thing that has been going on with grooming gangs phenomenon for decades.

No one ever said it was all about immigration.

Two things can be true at the same time. Do we have a problem with British rapists? Yes. Do we have a significant problem in now adding to their number with foreign nationals from countries with different standards in the treatment of women and girls? Also yes.

Agree, Too many judges are far too lenient on rapists, that's assuming the rapists ever get to court in the first place, which most don't.

But that doesn't mean it's all about immigration.

Because it's yet another excuse for lenient sentencing, the unproven allegation of 'discrimination'. What about the discrimination against the child he brutally raped? That's OK is it?

I think they are talking about the judge’s comments as reported by the DM. Not the attack against this young girl.

Ok.

That doesn’t contain details of the judge’s comments and the context within which they were made.

There are those on here who avidly know all the Mail prints but do nothing but criticise it for not following their party line! The same people swallow every word from the Grauniad though which is just as biased but in the 'right' way.

We live in a country where rape is not prosecuted - you do realise how low our conviction rates are right?

(What are the conviction rates in the countries you are referring to? And where do they typically murder / cut out the tongue of rape victims.)

And it is their INSTANT go to. They've read nothing, researched nothing, just want to silence the victims and those who want the rapists to be properly sentenced.

Try reading more of the comments.

We can do both.

Sickening to think that despite such a heinous crime committed against a child, some people are apologists of it and feel sympathy for the perpetrating predator!

I would love to know what ‘what actually happened’ means - how much wiggle room is there for optics when a 13 year old is raped? What sort of stunning revelation would throw a different light over it all?

You’ve quoted a post with the bbc thread. Have you read it yet?

Are you satisfied with the metropolitan police account of events? Are you happy with the detective inspectors account who led this investigation?

Because it's exactly the same as the daily mail report. Honest to god what's wrong with you.

They cannot argue with facts. Straw man fallacies, and ad hominem slurs and insults is all they have.

Yep.

A capital idea!

Have your proposals on my desk Monday morning.

If only it were that simple.

Only rape apologists do ont understand your point.

Anyone who mentions race/ethnicity/citizenship in a sentencing as any sort of mitigating factor wants to keep the rapist in the country. If he is not from the UK he could potentially be deported if the judge actually invokes a reasonable sentence.

Quite. I hope that poor child or her family never read this thread.

What? You think that perhaps the 13-year-old girl "wanted it"? Or perhaps it was what she wore? That the perpetrator made a wrong assumption, or didn't know what he was doing?

I wonder what you would think of the sentence if it was one of your daughters, nieces, granddaughters, etc. Or yourself?

This judge sounds like one of the idiots that would say that if a woman is being raped, she should just lay back and enjoy it.

Now I understand why the pakistani gangs got away with grooming and raping white children - women who are also most likely Mother's are more outraged by potential bigotry and inaccurate reporting.