If you can’t get it up because you’re rich just secretly film some women in the bathroom- you won’t go to priosn

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This man sexually assaulted an unconscious woman, assaulted another woman and secretly filmed numerous other girls and women in a bathroom over a period of 15 years. But no prison time- despite been deemed to have a medium risk of reoffending.

Look at his justification for the offences.

During sentencing, it emerged Anderson suffered a medical condition linked to erectile disfunction. He claimed the making and viewing the secret recordings helped him achieve arousal.

He claims that being dubbed ‘The Rich Kid’ at school had impacted his self-esteem.

What the actual fuck is wrong with our justice system that a self confessed predatory serial sex offender is allowed to exist freely in our society having served zero prison time?

Can women ever expect justice for male violence?

That's awful Small. He's been doing it for 15 years and just gets away with it. Surely the assault warrants a custodial sentence.

You would have thought so. I imagine his guilty plea was in exchange for no jail time.

Although I’m not sure they would have needed a guilty plea with so much footage.

I see a couple of headlines on that page of similar appeals for lenient sentences in sexual assault cases. It's disgusting what women have to go through to get justice.

Why would any woman bother reporting when you see those cases?

And what about his victims self esteem

Ffs once again sexual assault on women is played down because a poor man can’t help himself

It’s so entrenched from religion to modern day attitudes

Public Prosecutor is appealing. I'd expect this will be overturned. It's one outlier example, hence why it's headline news. It's not 'the norm' by any stretch.

You know how long the women of (NI) have had to fight for the right to have an abortion. It shouldn’t surprise you that men’s hurt feelings are being rolled out as more important that a woman’s right to feel safe and respected.

FFS.
She asked for it. She liked it rough. I couldn't help it. It is not my fault. People were mean to me.
FUCK OFF

No, not surprised. Appalled and angry. Normal reaction to this. Just voicing it. Which I think is fine.

I'd expect this will be overturned.

Let’s hope so.

Ffs once again sexual assault on women is played down because a poor man can’t help himself

Yep. Man feels sad/angry/depressed= women get assaulted.

Who are the 7% who said you were being unreasonable about this?

Considering that there was a case of rape over in America, where the judge told the victim if she had kept her legs closed she wouldn't have been raped. So I'm not really surprised how women are treated by the judicial system.

where the judge told the victim if she had kept her legs closed she wouldn't have been raped.

Although I’m not sure why I am shocked anymore.

Where/when was this @Scoobydoobywho?

Pleased to see the prosecutor is challenging this. This guy is plainly a nasty, predatory misogynist.

We need laws that state that for particular crimes a judge cannot impose a suspended sentence.

Sorry, I don't quite follow. Are you suggesting his need for sexual relief should be less important than womens need for safety and privacy?

What a strange and revolutionary idea. Cant see it gaining much traction.

Yep. Man feels sad/angry/depressed= women get assaulted.

And of course the reverse doesn't hold true. Women get assaulted, therefore are sad/ angry / depressed. Would we all get away with it if we assaulted men in these numbers for that reason? At the moment such cases make headline news because it's a very rare occurrence. I can't really imagine what would happen if we all started using that excuse.

The more I hear cases like these, the more I realise that most men, on some level think, it's not that bad for women to be raped or sexually assaulted and that men's sexual gratification is more important

Considering that there was a case of rape over in America, where the judge told the victim if she had kept her legs closed she wouldn't have been raped. So I'm not really surprised how women are treated by the judicial system

Or that case where the American college student was given a light sentence after raping an unconscious woman because - he had a bright future ahead of him and he didn't want this incident to spoil that for him

YANBU I am so exhausted from all this shit. We need majority female judges.

@NotEverythingIsBlackandWhite

We do, in effect - we have the sentencing guidelines - but this sort of offence is one where the judge can impose a suspended sentence.

Unfortunately if the laws and guidelines are written by people who don’t value women either, then it makes no difference whatsoever what they say.

@Smallsteps88, I didn't quite remember it correctly but it's still not good. Hope the link works. www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/nyregion/nj-judge-john-russo.html

If you’re rich you can literally do anything

[quote Scoobydoobywho]@Smallsteps88, I didn't quite remember it correctly but it's still not good. Hope the link works. www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/nyregion/nj-judge-john-russo.html[/quote]
Fucking hell! He’s absurd! Those comments “master of straight face” so glad they were unanimous in voting to have him removed. He should be nowhere near victims.