Teenager Accused of Rape Deserves Leniency Because He's From a 'Good Family,' Judge Says

[TexasTowelie]

The 16-year-old girl was visibly intoxicated, her speech slurred, when a drunk 16-year-old boy sexually assaulted her in a dark basement during an alcohol-fueled pajama party in New Jersey, prosecutors said.

The boy filmed himself penetrating her from behind, her torso exposed, her head hanging down, prosecutors said. He later shared the cellphone video among friends, investigators said, and sent a text that said, “When your first time having sex was rape.”

But a family court judge said it wasn’t rape. Instead, he wondered aloud if it was sexual assault, defining rape as something reserved for an attack at gunpoint by strangers.

He also said the young man came from a good family, attended an excellent school, had terrific grades and was an Eagle scout. Prosecutors, the judge said, should have explained to the girl and her family that pressing charges would destroy the boy’s life.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/nyregion/judge-james-troiano-rape.html

[elleng]

1. 'Now the judge has been sharply rebuked by an appeals court in a scathing 14-page ruling

that warned the judge against showing bias toward privileged teenagers.

In doing so, the appeals court cleared the way for the case to be moved from family court to a grand jury, where the teenager, identified only as G.M.C. in court documents, will be treated as an adult.'

[Sherman A1]

4. Hope that the privileged little fellow

Gets to serve a significant number of years for his crime which he fully understood was wrong when he committed it and shared the video.

[femmedem]

2. If anything, defendents who come from "bad families" are more deserving of leniency.

That judge is in the wrong profession.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. UPDATE

Several NJ Assembly and Senate members are calling for this judge to step down.

I suppose impeachment is also an option.