You all gave me a hard time for saying that equality isn't only about seeking more jail time for female rapists, so does this guy deserve more punishment or is this equality?

hackableyou · 2017-05-23T23:18:01+00:00

I wasn't one of the people that gave you a hard time, but if there are no more details that materially change this case that aren't in the article, I would agree with you. This person deserves more time.

mwobuddy · 2017-05-23T23:39:55+00:00

The judge noted the victim took her own clothes off and was not unconscious.

Sounds like force was used...

Mr Trigg said: “This defendant took advantage of a position of trust as this victim’s big brother. He knew she didn’t want to have sex with him. She told him that repeatedly.

Oh god, more 'position of trust/authority' garbage. I wonder when they'll start saying that boyfriends are abusing their position of trust when they get their girlfriends drunk.

"So he got her stoned on dabs he gave her until she didn’t even recognise him in order get what he wanted.”

Unverifiable claim. If she could no longer recognize him, how did he get caught?

He said she had repeatedly resisted his sexual advances. The age of consent in California is 18.

In the end, he confessed that she was not consenting (although she did take her clothes off for an apparent 'stranger') and she isn't legally capable by age of consent law, as well as it being his FUCKING SISTER, so he should probably get a few more years than he did, but the ineligibility for parole makes it a hard decision.

I believe that when you talk about 'shouldn't be seeking more jailtime' it usually comes around the age of consent violations where an underage teen repeatedly meets up with an older woman for sex without obvious coercion involved.

This has obvious coercion. It can't really be compared as 'equality'.

Now, if he'd been 20 with a willing high school aged girlfriend and got done in by the law, this would definitely be 'equality'.

omegaphallic · 2017-05-23T23:56:54+00:00

I'll have to look into dabs, I've known a lot of pot smokers and no matter how potent the pot they have never been so fucked up as to not recognized their own sister.

But I've never heard of Dabs, so maybe it's different I don't know.

If Dabs can do what has been suggested, then yes the sentence was on the low side.

For the record in the cases were female (or male) teachers has consentual sex with students 16+ I don't support prison sentences at all.

RapeMatters · 2017-05-24T04:32:59+00:00

Seems obscenely light to me, based solely on the article you linked, although being on the sex offender registry is a harsh punishment in its own right.

serial_crusher · 2017-05-24T03:08:39+00:00

Normally I'd be on the "if you consented to take drugs, then consented to doing something stupid while you were high, it's still consent" side of things, but the girl being 16 and the brother being in a "position of power" complicates things.

An adult coercing a child into taking drugs and having sex is...well, an adult coercing a child into having sex; which is illegal. But there's some gray area around a 16 year old being considered a child or an adult.

I'll yield to the jury's decision on this one.

andejoh · 2017-05-24T20:30:14+00:00

The exception that proves the rule. Why would this in particular upset you or draw you attention? Women routinely get lenient sentences so a lenient sentence to a woman is not strange.

2017-05-24T00:19:37+00:00

Judge made a reasonable decision based on the evidence presented.

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