Poll of the Day > 19 y/o who RAPED a GIRL gets to Stay in HIGH SCHOOL and gets NO PRISON!!!

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19 y/o Elias Dowdy, a High School Lacross Star was ALLOWED to stay in school for MONTHS after being arrested for raping a classmate in a decision that SHOCKED the school and the community despite pleading GUILTY to the crime..and he WON'T have to serve time either and is only sentenced to PROBATION!!

He raped the girl in her home back in May 2018 as many of the details of this are unknown because he was underage at the time and was proposed for youth offender status, a less serious status than he would have received if he were an adult.

Despite the arrest, he was allowed to stay in school and play lacrosse as he was known to be a star on the team..and even crossed paths with the VICTIM in the hallways!!

He plead guilty to third degree rape but and was allowed to stay in school for weeks..

Because he was 3 DAYS SHY of turning 18 when he raped her, he was SPARED youth offender status and was given an interim probationary sentence..if he violates it, he will be sent ot jail

The max for third degree rape for an adult offender is 4 years

100 students walked out of class in protest and was only then was he suspended

He went to court to ask for forgiveness and despite the victim's mother appealing Judge Sara Sheldon to give him full sex offender status, he only got one year probation as she DIDN'T want to RUIN his life!!

The judge also read a FB post written by Dowdy's brother that said "That girl had the right ot say no..it was consensual but they're making him out to be a monster. All of them people need to take a nosedive off a bridge"

She used it as an example in ways his family and friends had tormented the victim and accused her of lying as the victim told the pain of having to face seeing him in school.

Do you think this is privilege at work?

Elias - Hideous



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Not enough information here for a judgement.

What does "3rd degree" mean in this context?
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Full Throttle posted...

The judge also read a FB post written by Dowdy's brother that said "That girl had the right ot say no..it was consensual but they're making him out to be a monster. All of them people need to take a nosedive off a bridge"

Yet his brother admitted to doing it. Due to this I feel his brother shouldn't have a life.

Lokarin posted...

What does "3rd degree" mean in this context?

I would guess he didn't get her consent, which was withheld for some other reason than incapacity to consent or she was incapable of consent by reason of some factor other than being less than 17 years old.
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Huh. The photo of the judge and the defendant... no, not saying anything.

Full Throttle posted...

a High School Lacross Star

Those words really don't go together well.

Full Throttle posted...

Despite the arrest, he was allowed to stay in school and play lacrosse as he was known to be a star on the team..and even crossed paths with the VICTIM in the hallways!!

He plead guilty to third degree rape but and was allowed to stay in school for weeks.

Well that's just phrased confusingly. I'd want independent confirmation that he was staying *after* his plea deal since the way it's described makes it sound like he was kicked from school finally and I'm wondering if Ducky got the timeline wrong.

As for the third-degree, I googled the judge and it *looks* like this took place in NY so I googled what constitutes third-degree rape and... I'm even more confused when I started:
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/130.25

A person is guilty of rape in the third degree when:

1. He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person who is incapable of consent by reason of some factor other than being less than seventeen years old;

2. Being twenty-one years old or more, he or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person less than seventeen years old; or

3. He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person without such person's consent where such lack of consent is by reason of some factor other than incapacity to consent.

1 and 2 presumably are references to that it can't be used for AOC cases. Finally #3 -- which has to be the charge -- is ambiguous. So I did some more googling, but the legal sites I looked at makes it sound like it's something else entirely. At any rate, I'm not going to speculate on this.

Also, I forgot to use privacy mode when googling this shit so I'm more than a little concerned what data might be linked my google account afterward >_>
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But those all sound like 1st degree... sex without consent.
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Lokarin posted...

But those all sound like 1st degree... sex without consent.

but, the judge can't ruin his life, ok? /sarcasm
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