Stanford rapist serving only 3 months

In what way did he 'destroy his victims life'?

If we were to liken rape to physical assault, would you really argue that someone who got beaten up one night has had their life destroyed?

Especially if that person received huge publicity, the support of literally hundreds of thousands of people and the knowledge that their attacker will be permanently branded a criminal, long after their sentence is over?

No.


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This is hardly about the victim's or the public's rage. He raped a human being. 3 months of jail time is not a punishment fit for this crime.

He ONLY sexually assaulted someone?

You don't ONLY sexually assault someone.

I said that that he only did it because of the fact that he was drunk. I was not using the word 'only ' in the way that you are implying. I meant that the only reason for him sexually assaulting here was because he was drunk and became unable to control his behaviour.

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You don't some how turn into a criminal when you've had to much to drink, you CAN control your behaviour. Stop justifying his behaviour.

****ing ridiculous.
The judge said he didn't want to give him a longer sentence because it would have a "severe impact" on him. That's what prison's ****ing supposed to do. Ideally he wouldn't become mentally ill because that's just not taking care of his health but he clearly needs to learn especially if he was drunk because that will have been the basest level of his mind. The deeper the impact, the less likely he will rape again even if he is drunk.

Results indicated that while on parole, offenders with the longest time served generallyhad higher recidivism rates than offenders with the shortest time served.

But that's exactly what it's about.

What justification is there for a punishment if it's going to make him more likely to commit crimes in the future, and less likely to ever again be a productive member of society? How is it going to benefit the victim or anyone else? What are you achieving by locking him up for several years that you aren't achieving by locking him up for several months?

But alcohol does lower your ability to control yourself and leads to reckless behaviour like assault or sexual assault. People do become criminals sometimes when they drink alcohol.

I'm not justifying what he has done- I agree that what he did was wrong- I just feel that people are inaccurately portraying as some sort of evil monster when, in fact, he was a perfectly normal guy who wrongly took the decision to drink large amounts of alcohol which caused him to commit this crime.

But that's exactly what it's about.

What justification is there for a punishment if it's going to make him more likely to commit crimes in the future, and less likely to ever again be a productive member of society? How is it going to benefit the victim or anyone else? What are you achieving by locking him up for several years that you aren't achieving by locking him up for several months?

This just isn't true, though. It can quite often have the opposite effect.



He'd be less significantly less likely to rape again if he were rehabilitated, but then people would kick off about prisons being "too soft" and all that *******s.

This doesn't relate to this incident per say but I thought I'd mention it;

29% of women said (in a 2013 survey) that they have had or continue to have rape fantasies

17% of the same group said that if 'their rapist was attractive they would not report the case to police'

An issue which I think is pertinent is that rape varies in severity depending on the attractiveness of the attacker, this has been found by multiple studies.

Now obviously I'm not saying rape is anything but horrific however I do think that when the rapist is unattractive or undesirable it is seen as a worse crime.

Another example is the rapist in Portugal ( I can't remember when) who committed a similar offence; there were thousands of tweets where people were saying things like 'why did she report him?' 'I would love to have been in her shoes' etc etc because the rapist was an attractive man

Just thought I'd throw that out there


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^^^

Don't feed the cretinous troll guys. Best we just ignore it like a bad smell in the room that will soon pass.

The girl was horribly wronged, and needs emotional support and understanding. But what's done to her is done. It can't be taken back or righted with a harsher sentence for the perpetrator.

What the perpetrator needs is not necessarily retribution, but to be pittied and rehabilitated. Yes, the sentence seems oddly short, but satisfying an urge for revenge by having him 'rot in prison' does what exactly? If 3 months and a spot on the sex offenders register ends up being enough to set him straight and protect society, why not that?

You don't some how turn into a criminal when you've had to much to drink, you CAN control your behaviour. Stop justifying his behaviour.