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Fred Sanders

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Fri Jun 6, 2014, 11:12 PM Jun 2014

Blaming Victims of Sexual Crimes for the Sexual Crimes An Unacceptable Stereotype: Montana S.C.

“There is no place in the Montana judiciary for perpetuating the stereotype that women and girls are responsible for sexual crimes committed against them,” the Montana Supreme Court concluded, holding that Judge G. Todd Baugh violated ethics rules."

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Last year, Judge G. Todd Baugh sentenced former teacher Stacey Dean Rambold to just 31 days in jail, suspending the remainder of what would have been a 15-year prison sentence, for raping his 14-year-old student. This sentence was later overturned. But the controversy didn’t end there. Baugh explained his sentence by saying that the victim was a “youth that was probably as much in control of the situation as [Rambold], one that was seemingly, though troubled, older than her chronological age.” Baugh explained his sentence to the press by saying, “it was horrible enough as it is just given her age, but it wasn’t this forcible beat-up rape.” The girl’s family said emotional distress from the crime led her to commit suicide. After more than 30,000 people called for his resignation, later apologized for the comments as well as the sentence.

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Conservative State Supreme Court reaffirming that 19th century sexual crime stereotypes should no longer have a place in or be perpetuated within the Montana judiciary, eh?....because the place for perpetuating the stereotype that women and girls are responsible for sexual crimes against them is in the Republican Party.


http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/05/3445295/montana-high-court-orders-suspension-public-reprimand-for-judge-who-called-rape-victim-in-control/

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