Judge Says Sexual Assault Victim "Was Flattered By Attention Because She's Overweight"
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A Quebec judge will be subject to an official complaint over comments he made during a sexual assault trial suggesting the teenage complainant was "flattered" by the accuser's attention.
Cab driver Carlo Figaro, 49, was accused of forcibly kissing and licking the face of a 17-year-old girl who was his passenger and touching her ? and ? over her clothes. Figaro was found guilty in May and has not yet been sentenced. He is appealing the conviction.
According to Le Journal de Montreal, during the trial Judge Jean-Paul Braun remarked, "It can be said that she is a little overweight, but she has a pretty face huh?" He also suggested the victim may have been "flattered" because "it is perhaps the first time that he is interested in her." He described the non-consensual kiss as an "acceptable gesture."
The CBC reports that Braun also debated "degrees of consent" with the Crown prosecutor, noting that getting consent for a kiss is different than getting consent to touch someone's behind. He said Figaro's good looks combined with the complainant's sheltered upbringing could explain why she may have liked the attention. He even went into detail about how Figaro doesn't look his age and "likes to wear cologne."
Quebec Justice Minister Stephanie Vallee has said she will file a complaint against Braun with Quebec's judicial council.
Other politicians have also condemned the remarks.
Manon Masse of Quebec Solidaire said this is another example of ? culture and "a person in a position of authority making inappropriate remarks toward women," according to the Canadian Press.
Earlier this year, Federal Court Justice Robin Camp resigned after the Canadian Judicial Council ruled that he was unfit to sit on the bench after he told a ? complainant she should have kept her "knees together."
In April, the judge sentencing Queen's University student Chance Macdonald, who was convicted of assaulting a teenage girl, postponed the sentence to avoid interfering with Macdonald's internship. After VICE published a story, Macdonald was fired from Deloitte.
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_ca/article/pa3gdn/judge-said-sex-assault-complainant-was-overweight-and-probably-flattered-by-attention
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BiblicalAtheist wrote: »Umm it's sexualizing when it's unwanted.
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Age of consent in Quebec is 16... It was 14 a few years ago
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*fights air*
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Oh boy...
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yet we are to believe that ? culture does not exist... the courts always are on the side of women... etc
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Madame_CJSkywalker wrote: »yet we are to believe that ? culture does not exist... the courts always are on the side of women... etc
I'm saying tho...
'Her sheltered upbringing'....'He likes to wear cologne'
TF?!
He smells nice and now I wanna be fondled ON TOP of my clothes and my face licked.....WITHOUT my permission.
Just throw the whole dude away.
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Age of consent in Quebec is 16... It was 14 a few years ago
True but it's still illegal for a 49 old man to mess with that age. -
Madame_CJSkywalker wrote: »yet we are to believe that ? culture does not exist... the courts always are on the side of women... etc
This isnt an american story.
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Madame_CJSkywalker wrote: »yet we are to believe that ? culture does not exist... the courts always are on the side of women... etc
This isnt an american story.
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Madame_CJSkywalker wrote: »yet we are to believe that ? culture does not exist... the courts always are on the side of women... etc
This isnt an american story.
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bruh ...
happens here in america quite a lot
A man sentenced to five years probation by a Dallas County judge after admitting he ? a 14-year-old girl won’t have to follow many of the restrictions typically given to sex offenders.
And the judge who issued the light sentence said Thursday that she did so in part because the girl wasn’t a ? and “wasn’t the victim she claimed to be.”
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2014/05/01/judge-says-sexually-assaulted-14-year-old-wasn-t-the-victim-she-claimed-to-be
An Idaho judge ordered a young man not to have sex with anyone before he marries as part of his sentencing for the ? of a child, including the unusual edict as a condition of his eventual probation.
District Court Judge Randy Stoker last week sentenced Cody Herrera, 19, to five to 15 years in prison, but he suspended the sentence for a one-year "rider program," for the ? of a 14-year-old girl.
Herrera also allegedly admitted to having fantasies about a 13-year-old girl and said he watched pornography depicting ? , the Times-News reported.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/06/judge-orders-teen-who-? -girl-14-not-to-have-sex-before-mar/21708330/
Former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner is scheduled for early release from jail Friday after serving three months of a six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/us/brock-turner-release/index.html
The 24-year-old typist was working at the state prison at Rockview in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, when she was attacked in 2013. She was choked unconscious and ? for 27 minutes by inmate
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/24/justice/woman-blamed-for-her-? /index.html
Baugh sent Stacey Dean Rambold to prison for 30 days last year after he pleaded guilty to sexual intercourse without consent.
Rambold was a 47-year-old business teacher at Billings Senior High School at the time of the 2007 ? . The victim was one of his students. She committed suicide while the case was pending trial.
Baugh said during Rambold’s sentencing in August that the teenager was “probably as much in control of the situation as the defendant” and that she “appeared older than her chronological age.”
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/montana-supreme-court-reprimands-judge-for-? -comments/article_76974ae4-11b2-11e4-9bbc-001a4bcf887a.html
Back in 2016 the U.S. Department of Justice released a scathing report about the Baltimore Police Department that showed rampant problems with how sex crimes are handled in the city.
Officers routinely questioned sex crime victims in a way that put the blame on the victims themselves, like suggesting they were responsible. Detectives would ask “Why are you messing up that guy’s life?” and suggest the victims were lying by not reporting the assault immediately.
A prosecutor handling a sexual assault case wrote in an email to a BPD officer that the woman who reported the crime was a “conniving little ? ,” and the cop responded “Lmao! I feel the same.”
Detectives made “minimal to no effort to locate, identify, interrogate, or investigate suspects,” the DOJ said. BPD sex crimes unit officials would complain that all of the sexual assault reports were false, saying at a social event, “In homicide, there are real victims; all our cases are ? .”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/? -victims-report-police_us_57ad48c2e4b071840410b8d6 -
Yo, this ? is gross. The judge needs to be disbarred
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Judge know what it is!
