Special ed teacher in Rochester rapes boy for 3 years; receives three year sentence.

Tedesche · 2015-02-12T19:36:32+00:00

While there's clearly gender discrimination going on, I think part of the issue here may be that judges do not consider a (quasi-)consensual relationship between a minor and an adult to be as bad as forced rape. There's no question that, if this were a male teacher and female student, the guy would most likely be given a harsher sentence, but I do wonder if the statistics would indicate a general trend towards lighter sentences in cases where there was some consent given by the victim (even if just initially).

Something feminists love to forget is that rape has become an umbrella term for any form of sexual victimization, which has had the effect of obscuring the differences in harm between them. I'm not saying being manipulated into a sexual relationship by an adult is harmless—I realize that the psychological impacts are huge and long-lasting—but it is also not the same as being raped by brute force. I'm also not advocating that we think about the harm rape causes quantitatively; I actually think a qualitative consideration is more accurate, which means a long-term manipulated relationship could potentially be more damaging than a single forced sex experience, depending on the types of damage caused and their degree of permanency.

Rape, molestation, sexual assault—these are complicated matters, but the fact that they also get most people's blood boiling impairs our ability to think about them complexly. Not all instances of sexual victimization are the same, and they do not all deserve the same punishment. I realize the MR issue here is that, if the genders were reversed in this case, the sentence would almost undoubtedly be more severe, but let's not forget that sentences for individual cases are based on a lot more information than just that.

Anger about systemic gender discrimination against men is both understandable and justified, but let's be careful not to let our anger about the pattern blind us to the fact that individual cases deserve individual attention. If we instinctively lump any single case in with said pattern in our minds, we are no better than the feminists we all can't stand.

MRSPArchiver · 2015-02-12T16:04:08+00:00

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Diesel-66 · 2015-02-13T06:11:01+00:00

13 and a special needs, yeah that's just rape.

gr8luvr · 2015-02-12T17:00:48+00:00

Seems like about the right rape/prison time ration (1:1). If only men would receive sentences along this ratio for the same crime.

Title	Special ed teacher in Rochester rapes boy for 3 years; receives three year sentence.
Author	save_the_rocks
Upvotes	115
Comments	7
Date	February 12, 2015 4:03 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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