"This week in the U.K., Judge Nigel Peters gave a suspended sentence to 41-year-old Neil Wilson after he pleaded guilty to “making extreme pornographic images and one count of sexual activity” with a 13-year-old girl. The judge explained his leniency as stemming from the fact that“the girl was predatory and was egging you on.” During the trial, the prosecution had declared the girl was “sexually experienced” and that “She appeared to look around 14 or 15 and had the mental age of a 14 or 15 year old despite being younger than that. There was sexual activity but it was not of Mr. Wilson’s doing, you might say it was forced upon him despite being older and stronger than her.” Law enforcement also found “a stash of images and videos depicting child abuse and bestiality” in Wilson’s home, but sure, the 13-year-old girl is the predator here."
-taken from salon.com(source cited below)
The rapist walks away with a suspended sentence because the 13-yr old girl looks predatory.??? Are you fucking kidding me? She is 13 years old. That says everything. Whether she looks predatory or innocent or elusive or confrontational should make absolutely no difference in a court of law. Isn't the law supposed to consider hard-core facts and not delusional subjective feelings? The only question this sort of judgment warrants is on whether the judge himself is of sound judgment, whether his mental faculties have taken to a tossing or whether he holds sympathy for the rapist because he himself holds "predatory" urges allowing him to make clouded unfair judgments. Additionally, I quite don't understand why it is relevant to the case that the girl looks 14 or 15 years old. Does that really matter? Even if she is 14 (or 15, let's humor this atrocious age issue), isn't rape still rape? Are the court of laws in the UK incapable of distinguishing between consenting adults and sexual abuse of power over children by grown 41-year old men ? How is this in anyway a difficult judgement to make? That the Law Enforcement found a stash of images and videos depicting child abuse and bestiality in Wilson's home only makes this case clearer to judge.
This man has violated a child, in a way she probably will never recover from. How is this man allowed to have a free pass? The man who obviously has violent sexual tendencies, has literally been given permission to continue this sort of behavior. This is a humanitarian issue and much less a feminist issue. It is a matter of justice being denied, when it should have been handed justly and swiftly to the criminal. Instead the victim has been reprimanded and even accused for being raped. How is this justified?
Sources:
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/06/the_girl_was_predatory/
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