Comments on: Judge in Philidelphia Throws Out Rape Charges Because Victim Is A Prostitute

By: Rape is not… « UBUNTU!

Rape is not… « UBUNTU! — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:27:17 +0000

[...] Judge in Philidelphia Throws Out Rape Charges Because Victim Is A Prostitute [...]

By: RenegadeEvolution

RenegadeEvolution — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:54:02 +0000

It’s completely disgusting, but i’m not all that surprised. The majority of people out there don’t consider prostitutes human.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:03:58 +0000

WOW!

I really thought the days of “Well, look what she was wearing….she was asking for it” or “Well, she put herself in this situation, so she got what she deserved” were long gone……how wrong I was!

How sad it is to be back in times where it is OK to rape a woman, because of her choices. Let’s just not even think about the gun the guys had shoved in her face, as they took turns with her, while she feared for her very life. I guess she was “asking” for it, eh? I canot even begin to imagine how that girl is feeling right now, how humiliated she is…….Geez, I am sickened………

By: Skemono

Skemono — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:33:54 +0000

This seems so ridiculous, I have to wonder if the judge is trying to pull some sort of legal maneuver here. Is the penalty for armed robbery perhaps more than the penalty for rape? Perhaps she is trying to make the appeals court take up the case, for some reason or another, and the only surefire way to do that is to be spectacularly wrong? Maybe she wants them to say something about the enforceability of contracts exchanging money for sex?

Well, given that the judge later declared that this case “demeans women who are really raped”, I wouldn’t bet on it.

By: link garden: latin america, gender, the environment, race and more at vegankid

link garden: latin america, gender, the environment, race and more at vegankid — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:31:47 +0000

[...] Judge in Philidelphia Throws Out Rape Charges Because Victim Is A Prostitute [Alas, a blog] Words fail me, but the title of Skemono’s post — “Prostitutes aren’t people, after all” — seems to sum it up. But it’s worth mentioning that after being let go by the judge, this man raped another woman (also a prostitute, raped in the same manner) four days later. [...]

By: Nan

Nan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:27:14 +0000

Words fail me.

By: Silenced is foo

Silenced is foo — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:50:19 +0000

O_____O

I didn’t think people like that actually existed. I figured they were a bogeyman constructed by Marcotte to insult MRAs. There are seriously, actual things that could approximately be described as human beings who think that a prostitute can’t be raped? That this was “theft of services” - that is quite possibly the most disturbing phrase I’ve ever seen.

Sweet merciful crap.

By: Bjartmarr

Bjartmarr — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:33:45 +0000

This seems so ridiculous, I have to wonder if the judge is trying to pull some sort of legal maneuver here. Is the penalty for armed robbery perhaps more than the penalty for rape? Perhaps she is trying to make the appeals court take up the case, for some reason or another, and the only surefire way to do that is to be spectacularly wrong? Maybe she wants them to say something about the enforceability of contracts exchanging money for sex?

Or maybe she just thinks her workload is too high, and she wants to be removed from the bench or given less responsibility?

This woman was smart enough to pass the bar…she can’t be a TOTAL moron, can she?

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:48:53 +0000

Words fail me as well. I can see the theoretical point the judge is making, but it has zero applicability to the case before her. OK, maybe in some case where a purchaser of sex pays $170 instead of an agreed $180, the resulting dispute might be thought of as a case of theft; she doesn’t want the transaction not to have happened, she wants the $10 she is owed.

But in this case that is INSANE. I literally don’t know how to criticize someone for a decision this stupid and wrong.