Agree with you 100% based on my own experience. When I was 12 back in the 70s, my friends and I thought it was cool to call into a local radio station late at night and talk to the DJs—not on the air, just on the phone.

He should be locked up for encouraging crime, not sitting in a judge’s seat.

Found this:

Gibbens responded, “And so she’s uncomfortable for something she voluntarily went to, voluntarily took her top off of, and was paid for?”

I wasn't aware that the teenage girls were on trial. Was anyone else aware that the teenage girls were on trial here? 

I know the KC Star has a paywall, which is infuriating, but it’s worth it to read the entirety of the piece. This Leavenworth county judge not only blamed the girls for their assaults, he also openly questioned whether they were harmed at all by the encounter since they didn’t come to their assailant’s sentencing and…

Not entirely. Kids that age like doing transgressive things, and are (as we all are) surrounded every day with imagery advertising what “grown-ups” do while being told it’s taboo. And having once been A Children, I can assure you that 13-year-olds sure as shit know about the sex (at least in rough outlines on the…

That is absolutely the way this judge saw it. He completely disregarded this molester’s sexual battery conviction and focused on his ‘intellectual disability,’ to the detriment of those young girls AND justice. An issue that didn’t make it into the Jez piece: the judge questioned the level of harm both girls suffered…

I was going to say, the judge is a pedophile. Count on it.

Someone needs to investigate the judge.

BINGO! Kids that age don’t naturally gravitate to this behavior without having been groomed for it. Sickening.

Fucking christ, how many of these goddamn judges are there!?

Reminds me of Alberta judge Robin Camp who was forced to resign (but apparently is able to practice law again, ugh) after a combo of minimizing an assault and blaming it on the victim. Hoping you guys can similarly oust this guy.

I loved the attorney’s reply, although it is frightening that a judge needs to be reminded that a minor can’t consent. I hope the judge and this disgusting pedophile end up in the same cell block.

This judge has raped/molested women/girls, I fucking guarantee it. At an absolute minimum, there have been date rape. Men who understand consent AND GET CONSENT don’t say things like this.

Another shitty human that has attained a position of power arguably based on privilege. The other horrible part to stories like this is that this administration has been placing more judges on the bench with the same principles as them. So there is a strong chance that there are more dark days ahead.

Gibbens responded, “And so she’s uncomfortable for something she voluntarily went to, voluntarily took her top off of, and was paid for?”

It’s amazing to me that adults are often treated with less agency than kids.

For the longest time, a good two decades after my teacher molester was convicted of raping me daily for two years, I had feelings of fault so ingrained in my psyche, that the self-abuse track I was on nearly ended my life.

I bet you’re one of those people that ask why sexual assault victims don’t fight back, too.