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This Week in Misogyny, Montana Edition

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I’m surprised I missed this one.  The story — a Montana high school teacher, now 54, pleads guilty this past Monday to raping a 14 year old student at his high school in 2008. The prosecution seeks a 20-year prison sentence. Montana District Judge Todd Baugh, accepts the defense argument that the rapist, Stacey Rambold, had suffered enough. The sage judge suspends all but 31 days of the 15-year sentence he applies.

His reasoning? The victim was “just as much in control of the situation” as her rapist, and was “older than her chronological age.”

A 14 year-old student at the high school where our rapist du jour worked as a teacher is not even marginally in control of the situation.

If this sounds all too depressingly familiar, it’s because it bloody well is:

The judge sentenced the admitted abuser, Neil Wilson, to a mere eight months in jail. However, believing this too harsh, suspended the sentence for two years, commenting that “the girl was predatory and she was egging you on.”

The girl, 13. The abuser, 41.

The only substantive difference between the two cases is that in Montana, at least the prosecution attempted to, you know, prosecute.

I’ll grant that writing such posts does not require an undue amount of intellectual overhead, but this pattern is maddening. One case in England, one in Montana, both judges blind to reality. I’ll repeat myself: a 13, 14 year old girl is just that. A child. Not predatory, not egging you on, not partially in control of this or any situation, and not older than her chronological age.

The Montana judge, however, is clearly older than his chronological age of 71.

[SL]: Emily McCombs with a powerful piece explaining why no 14-year-olds are “consenting” to sex with older men.

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