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lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 09:58 AM Jan 2014

"Alleged victim"

I'm down with "innocent until proven guilty", but once a trial has been held and a guilty verdict returned, you should stop using the word "alleged". They aren't allegations, they are legal findings of fact.

A teacher convicted of raping a 14 year old. Released on probation. I wonder if this judge will be forced to retire like this guy, who at least had the decency of sentencing the rapist in his court to 30 days?

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"Alleged victim" (Original Post) lumberjack_jeff Jan 2014 OP
That and the sentence she got is just another example of "male privilege".. Upton Jan 2014 #1
kaitlyn hunt as well leftyohiolib Jan 2014 #2

Upton

(9,709 posts)
1. That and the sentence she got is just another example of "male privilege"..
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 11:34 AM
Jan 2014

Six months and probation for raping a 14 year old?

Alicia Gray, 28, accepted a plea deal by prosecutors in Circuit Court Judge Michael Youngpeter's courtroom and was convicted of engaging in a sexual act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under 19 years old. Youngpeter sentenced Gray to a five-year split sentence, with six months served and five years of probation
http://blog.al.com/live/2014/01/former_mobile_county_teacher_p.html


I wonder if any of the feminist advocacy organizations such as NOW, who were heavily involved in the Montana case, will have anything to say about this? After all, we're always being told they have the best interests of men at heart too.
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