Poll of the Day > Judge gives NO PRISON to 16 y/o who RAPED a Girl cause he's got POTENTIAL!!!

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69 y/o Judge Windbag, James Troiano from New Jersey is fighting back against critics for showing leniency on a 16 y/o boy who RAPED a girl at an alcohol fueled pajama party and gave him NO PUNISHMENT because the boy came from a "good family" who was destined for a TOP COLLEGE!!

He refused to try the teen at a adult court because the claims weren't a "traditional case of rape" and that the boy had not shown any "calculation or cruelty"

The now retired judge who was asked to fill a vacancy even complained that the victim had not been told the devastating effect that a full adult would have

His decision has been overturned by a higher court in a highly critical 14 page ruling warning him of any bias toward privileged perps

The boy, only named GMC had assaulted a 16 y/o called "Mary" at a party attended by 30 teens.

Both had been drinking and the boy filmed himself RAPING the drunk girl in a dark room and then shared the footage with friends that said "When your first time having sex was rape"

While on the sofa, a group of boys sprayed febreze on Mary's bottom and slapped with such force that she had hand marks on her buttocks. She was left vomiting with bruise marks and was driven home by her mom

When she told her mom that "sexual things" had happened, her family pursued criminal charges against the boy. Mary was visibly intoxicated and physically helpless who could not consent as the prosecutor said filming a cellphone video while committing assault was a deliberate act of debasement and said his behaviour was calculated and cruel

Troiano disagreed and said prosecutors should have explained to the girl how pressing charges would DESTROY the boy's life as he described the "attack" as "bad judgement but not malicious".

He said "This young man comes from a good family who put him into an excellent school where he was doing extremely well"

He said the boy was an EAGLE SCOUT who was a candidate not just for college but a GOOD COLLEGE and his scores were "really high" and ordered him tried as a juvenile

In 2004, Troiano imposed a banning of people in a courtroom for 2 football players raping a female classmate and the case was dropped

The judge said it is "outrageous" to destroy young boy's lives over this, especially ones who have "potential" to do "great things" and will not be the one to appease the public.

Do you agree with this windbag?

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So here we have pretty much the most ironclad case of rape ever, and yet the judge was questioning whether or not it was really rape. He also thinks there was no "malice" when he purposely distributed video of the rape even after he promised the victim to stop doing so. This is why women don't come forward, especially women from past eras when this problem was even worse. That's why you keep hearing about rape accusations that are decades old.
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the rapist should've been executed
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I would suggest death sentence but I'd rather someone break his legs so he'll suffer for the rest of his life.
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Full Throttle posted...

The boy, only named GMC had assaulted a 16 y/o called "Mary" at a party attended by 30 teens.

....if only Ford had been there to stop him.



Lirishae posted...

So here we have pretty much the most ironclad case of rape ever, and yet the judge was questioning whether or not it was really rape. He also thinks there was no "malice" when he purposely distributed video of the rape even after he promised the victim to stop doing so. This is why women don't come forward, especially women from past eras when this problem was even worse. That's why you keep hearing about rape accusations that are decades old.

While I'm not sure what constitutes malice, the message sent with the video certainly seems to indicate intent given that he even calls it rape.
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Wtf this judge is just as fucking useless as this literal rapist

potential to be executed?
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/16/oxford-student-spared-jail-extraordinary-talent/
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Sounds like that judge needs to stop judging. He's obviously too out of touch with reality to do his job properly.

Zeus posted...

....well, he is 16, which *is* a juvenile. Might as well get rid of juvenile/minor status if you're going to try juveniles as adults.

Juvenile status exists as a means of diminishing the consequences for kids who make silly, immature mistakes, so that they can learn from those mistakes instead of having their lives ruined as a result. When the minor in question demonstrates that they know full well what the consequences of their actions are, though, or commits such a heinous crime that passing it off as a mistake would be unreasonable, they get tried as adults. The existence of juvenile status doesn't mean there can't be exceptions to it in exceptional circumstances, which I'd say this case qualifies as.

wwinterj25 posted...

I would suggest death sentence but I'd rather someone break his legs so he'll suffer for the rest of his life.

Broken legs heal, outside of extreme circumstances. If you want to turn a broken leg into lifelong suffering, you'll have to do something like break it in half a dozen different places, then twist each break ~10 degrees before setting it so that his legs end up healing at ridiculous, non-functional angles.

BTW: This counts as cruel and unusual punishment. It's cruel to let the guilty go free and unusual to compliment them, too.
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Full Throttle posted...

cause he's got POTENTIAL!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4_1t5jjo4w" data-time="&start=75

But this is the exact reason we need to stop treating teens like kids and dole out the proper adult punishment for real life crimes. Teens age fourteen and up need to not just get a slap on the wrist.

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Zeus posted...

....well, he is 16, which *is* a juvenile. Might as well get rid of juvenile/minor status if you're going to try juveniles as adults.

Juvenile status exists as a means of diminishing the consequences for kids who make silly, immature mistakes, so that they can learn from those mistakes instead of having their lives ruined as a result. When the minor in question demonstrates that they know full well what the consequences of their actions are, though, or commits such a heinous crime that passing it off as a mistake would be unreasonable, they get tried as adults. The existence of juvenile status doesn't mean there can't be exceptions to it in exceptional circumstances, which I'd say this case qualifies as.

...and up until around the age of 25, the human brain is still developing and people are more likely to engage in impulsive, reckless, and illegal activities which, by the way, is one of the reasons we keep alcohol away from minors. While you could very well argue that the minor knew what he was doing -- in the sense that he had enough awareness to consider it, or jokingly think about it, as rape -- you'd be pretty damn hard-pressed to claim that he was in full awareness of the consequences, considering he was heavily intoxicated which further compromises brain activity. If he was doing it stone-cold sober then you *might* have an argument for adult status, but juvenile status exists for juveniles. And if you feel that punishments for juveniles aren't punitive enough, then add punishments for juveniles instead of upticking people to adults. Or, again, just abolish juvenile status.

Lokarin posted...

BTW: This counts as cruel and unusual punishment. It's cruel to let the guilty go free and unusual to compliment them, too.

BTW: No.

dioxxys posted...

But this is the exact reason we need to stop treating teens like kids and dole out the proper adult punishment for real life crimes. Teens age fourteen and up need to not just get a slap on the wrist.

Should start earlier than that, really. If a 12 y/o commits a murder or rape, they shouldn't get a slap on the wrist either.
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These cases are what lynching is for; if you make the outside more dangerous for these animals, judges will "protect" them by imprisoning them for a long time.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

These cases are what lynching is for; if you make the outside more dangerous for these animals, judges will "protect" them by imprisoning them for a long time.

...uh, lol? He'd be a 16 y/o sex offender going into an adult prison, he'd probably be safer with the angry mob. Doubly so since he supposedly had a privileged background and was on a football team. And back when lynchings were big, the judges didn't "protect" people by putting them in jail, they were holding them in prison so that they couldn't escape the mob. And that's assuming that the cops and judge weren't part of the angry mob themselves.
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Zeus posted...

...uh, lol? He'd be a 16 y/o sex offender going into an adult prison, he'd probably be safer with the angry mob.

Possibly.

I think the choice between being in a high security prison with guards and living in his town unprotected where they intend to hang him from a tree, it's preferable to get some kind of protection.
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What a fucking idiot! That little shithead threw away his potential with what he did.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zeus posted...

...uh, lol? He'd be a 16 y/o sex offender going into an adult prison, he'd probably be safer with the angry mob.

Possibly.

I think the choice between being in a high security prison with guards and living in his town unprotected where they intend to hang him from a tree, it's preferable to get some kind of protection.

Those "guards" do little to protect inmates from each other, whereas he could move if he worried about living in his town... or buy some guns and large dogs.
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Logic:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-seen-licking-ice-cream-viral-video-faces-20-years-n1026556
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Full Throttle posted...

In 2004, Troiano imposed a banning of people in a courtroom for 2 football players raping a female classmate and the case was dropped

hm.

it sounds to me like the judge thinks rape should probably be legal, or that it's not rape if the woman even so much as looked in your general direction
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