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How on earth can this prison sentence be so lenient?
ThisIsStartingToBoreMe · 03/12/2021 22:42
How on earth has this man only been sentenced to 10 years for this dreadful rape?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59523681
I remember reading about it at the time, thinking nothing could shock me after this.
ThisIsStartingToBoreMe · 03/12/2021 23:31
No they didn't charge him with rape - I don't understand why the prosecution would even accept a plea deal - the DNA clearly states him as the father and the mother is unable to give consent - surely thats an open and shut case for rape?
Wonder how long he'd been doing that for 
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Thelnebriati · 03/12/2021 23:46
I had a quick google for the law in Arizona and the penalty for rape is from 7 years to a life sentence. I can't see any obvious reason why he wasn't charged with rape. I'm really shocked by that and the apparently lenient sentence, this case was so bad it made international news.
RonaldMcDonald · 03/12/2021 23:56
In NI we get fewer than 20 rape convictions per year. This is being kind to the numbers - year, on year, on year.
It is my strong sense that you need to be really really really trying hard to actually be convicted of rape
I do not believe it is viewed as a crime as it should
I would never suggest a family member get involved in a police and court process knowing how many are discarded by police, then the PPS prior to even deciding to plead them down for guaranteed something
This is a shocking case but each rape is shocking and no one cares
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