This is a very extreme example of how true that is.

Never pressure or force someone to be with their abusers.

Seriously! He was caught by two sober witnesses in the act!

Not every rape is the same. Half aren’t reported. Most are he said/she said. Most do not involve two witnesses that can confirm he was raping an unconscious woman that he did not know behind a dumpster. He then whined about “sexual promiscuity” as some sort of…

I am sure he was. The court had a perfect opportunity to strip him of that notion.

From what I understand she’s in the band with her two sisters. A buddy of mine grew up in the area and said they’ve been performing since they were 10 or so. I bet her sisters are like dude WHAT THE FUCK

Yes. This. I was raped at college. I was too drunk to fight it PLUS it was in my bedroom. I invited the guy home with me. OF COURSE that didn’t mean I automatically wanted sex. But when I woke up the next day, my panties gone, memories of my NOs being ignored... The feeling of that asshole on top of me and me just…

Rape is the only crime where the victim is treated worse than the perpetrator. Isn’t it par for the course for defense attorneys to try to destroy a rape victim on the stand? Sometimes even law enforcement is less than sympathetic when a woman reports being raped.

As always, a man’s reputation > the safety of women.

Who was it who said “The rapist has a future; the victim as a past” with regards to how society tends to minimize what happened to the woman and coddle the perpetrator?

My rapist was sentenced Min-3 years, 4 months. Max 15 years. Considering he’s threatened to kill me once he gets out, I’m glad that his minimum sentencing date has passed and he is still in there. If only he could stay there, forever.

Edit: If it helps, charges were: Criminal Sexual Conduct, 3rd Deg (Multiple…

There are thousands of men looking only for the categorical preservation of the good reputations of the right kind of men, who neither see nor hear a victim asking for something as simple as justice.

That is what I would find interesting. What is the average sentence for a first time offender who is convicted of 3 felonies of this nature. People tend to get some slack if they are a first time offender, but if you committed three felonies as your first offense, I would imagine that slack is much less.

These stats are old, but no reason to think they are not still pretty close. (From Wikipedia). So the sentence is ABSOLUTELY "lenient" compared to a usual sentence for a *convicted* rapist.

“a conviction could severely damage her ex’s reputation and career.” AS IT SHOULD. fuckin’ a.

Here’s the difference: this piece of s*** was caught in the act. It’s probably the only reason he was convicted but that’s what sets him apart from many others. One of the guys who caught him was so traumatized he cried and cried. It was hard to say he said/she said (okay, she had bruises, she was unconscious, but…

What. The. Fuck.

Related: Years ago, a friend of mine here in France was married to a French high school teacher. They had a daughter. By the time their daughter was two, the wife left her husband because she suspected him of molesting their girl. She tried, during divorce proceedings, to get sole custody for this reason, or at least,…

he was also a Stanford athlete... part of the brotherhood. He absolutely had a conflict of interest.

A few big takeaways from this case: