http://azdailysun.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/judge-hatch-apologizes-to-victim/article_7e48fb9a-f934-11e1-b15a-0019bb2963f4.html

the story does not address the slap on the wrist sentence of the cop, either.

The American Taliban seems determined to shove women back to the 18th century.

If the maximum is 2.5 years, and the perp has no priors, they will most likely be given probation and community service every time. That is how it works.

If he was never required to register, how was it erased?

What are the states legal requirements for being on the list.?
dunno if they vary from state to state, but here in Ala. they print the name, pic and address of people on the list, our paper had the list a few weeks ago \and
the offences ranged from sexual assualt/rape to pornography, flashing.
If he was never required to register, how was it erased?

Good point. I meant to ask if the registration was not applied to him by the new judge.

Now I am wondering if he will also get his job back.

Both he and the judge are officially on the piece of shit list.

Can you imagine if a judge said:

If you didn't live in that house your house couldn't have been robbed;

If you hadn't bought that car it couldn't have been stolen;

If you hadn't driven that day you wouldn't have had your car hit;

If you hadn't crossed that street you wouldn't have been hit by a bus;

If you hadn't eaten in that restaurant you wouldn't have gotten food poisoning from their food;

If you hadn't gone into that store you wouldn't have slipped and fallen on the puddle they had on the floor;

If you hadn't brought your wallet it couldn't have been pinched;

If you hadn't walked past that alley you wouldn't have been dragged into it and mugged;

and on and on and on...

If any judge had said any of these similar things to the victims in these scenarios they would not only be fired they'd likely be thought to be completely off their rocker. No damn apology can possibly be acceptable for what she said when it is equally lunatic as any of the above similar victim blaming statements. It is only rape and sexual assault where anyone ever thinks that such an absurd victim blaming statement has any merit whatsoever, and no judge including this one would ever think to say something as outrageous as the similar victim blaming statements above nor lessen the rightful sentence because they believed such an absurd statement actually had merit. This judge DID believe that her similar to the above ridiculous statements had merit, and that's why she had the absolute unmitigated gall to say it in open court and give such an absurdly light sentence to the criminal. Had the woman not been sexually assaulted by him and he pinched her wallet instead this judge would never have blamed the victim and his ass would have been thrown in jail.

This judge needs to be fired immediately and never work in the business of justice ever again. She not only needs to go back to law school, she needs to go back to common fucking sense school. With her utterly twisted and absurd logic, she has NO BUSINESS judging anyone for anything, ever, and certainly not in a court of law.

Just updating the story.

She sounds like a male from the 1950's. What the fuck ever you ignorant judge.

The idea that men are helpless victims of their 'natural' obnoxious predilections and women should be expected to tiptoe around them... this is not the kind of logic one would expect to come from a matriarchal society. This is the kind of idea you see in patriarchal societies.

This judge has internalized the values of the patriarchal society she was raised in, and expressed them freely despite the fact that they're completely idiotic, because to her, this is simply common sense.

When feminists talk about the patriarchy, this is the kind of thing we mean.

I was one of the people who started the first Battered Women's shelter in Seattle in the '70's..it was a long uphill
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And should know when to shut up or they are asking for it.

That sign is so very appropriate, especially where women's rights are concerned.

"Down the hatch!"

A right Wing judge's knee-jerk comment based on service to the oligarchy's need to protect authoritarianism.

Or do I sound like Charlie Brown's teacher too?