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No no no. Just stop. This is not a case of people drunkenly fooling around. This is a case where a young woman drank more than she realized, became incapacitated, and was coerced to leave a party with a man who she'd just met who had been propositioning numerous other women at the party and who had been kicked out of a similar party recently for harassing women in the same way. She does not have to "be held accountable." He found a drunk girl and instead of taking her home, or to a hospital, he took her behind a dumpster, stripped her clothes off, and sexually assaulted her. Then when he was interrupted, he fled.

I don't understand the people on this thread who are hell-bent on making this a hook-up gone wrong. A jury saw all the evidence - photographs, testimony, police reports, victim impact statements, etc. - and decided that he was guilty of all charges. Three felonies, you guys. Do you know how hard it is to get a rape conviction? A jury unanimously convicting a privileged young white man of three violent felonies is a huge deal. He will branded for his entire life as a predator BECAUSE HE IS ONE. Maybe he can make changes and become something better, but in his adult life so far, what he is is a sexual predator who went to fraternity parties to get wasted and sexually harass women.

As for people saying that the sentencing judge's decision was totally cool, consider this. A person robs your house, gets interrupted and arrested immediately. The physical evidence is overwhelming enough to cause a jury to convict that person of three felonies, with a total prison sentence of up to 14 years in a state prison. The prosecution recommends that the robber serves 6 of those 14 years, presumably because there were concerns that the robber might not deserve to have the book thrown at him. However, the sentencing judge decides that even that is too long, and gives him 6 MONTHS. In a county jail. Meanwhile, your house was robbed. The sentencing judge's decision sends the message that the comfort of a convicted felon is more important than what happened to you.

In this country, we have a special kind of contempt for survivors of sexual assault and a really frightening amount of sympathy for sexual predators - provided that they are rich, young, and white. [/quote]

In your example, if a robber breaks into my house but doesn't steal anything, then I don't think a 14 year or 6 year sentence is appropriate.

I also don't think equating this crime with every other rape crime is helpful.  Whether he was a drunk freshman looking to hook up and, at the crucial moment, made the wrong decision, or whether he is a sicko creep escalating to worse crimes, in this instance, all we can go with is what happened.  Which is ugly, but it was just a hook up that he took too far.  [/quote]

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