Judge says 16 year old by accused rape deserves leniency because he comes from a "good family". Thoughts?

Judge says 16 year old by accused rape deserves leniency because he comes from a
Judge says 16 year old by accused rape deserves leniency because he comes from a "good family". Thoughts?

"A drunk 16-year-old boy filmed himself assaulting an intoxicated 16-year-old girl from behind in a darkened basement gym at a pajama-themed party in New Jersey. The girl’s head, hanging down, repeatedly hit the wall. Prosecutors said the boy later sent the video to seven of his friends, texting them, “when your first time having sex was rape."

Monmouth County prosecutors in 2017 sought to charge the boy as an adult with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, among other charges, saying that he “engaged in vaginal intercourse” with the girl when she was “visibly intoxicated, physically helpless and unable to provide consent.”

But a New Jersey family court judge last July denied the prosecutors’ motion to try the boy as an adult — on the grounds that he was an Eagle Scout who came “from a good family” and who could get into a “good college” because of his excellent grades.

Judge James Troiano also suggested that the boy’s alleged actions didn’t fit “the traditional case of rape” — which, according to him, occurs when “two or more men” “clearly manhandle” a victim at gunpoint. Troiano also expressed concerns that the prosecutor had not explained to the alleged victim “the devastating effect” the case would have on the accuser’s life if he was tried as an adult. As to the teen’s text message to his friends referring to the rape, Troiano dismissed it as “stupid crap” a 16-year-old says to his friends"

Thoughts? My thoughts... HOW THE FUCK IS THIS GUY A JUDGE? WHO THE FUCK GAVE THIS IDIOT A LAW DEGREE? I mean honestly though, this fucking judge thinks rape can only happen at gun point and if it involves more than one man. How much more ignorant can you possibly be? And he dismisses the boy's text message as "stupid crap a teenager says to friends". NO IT ISN'T. STOP MAKING EXCUSES. and people say rape culture doesn't exist when we are clearly making excuses for rapists and more worried about the rapist's future and re-victimizing victims. 🤬😡
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  • "When your first time having sex is rape"
    Says it all. Send him away.

  • It never ceases to amaze me that people make video evidence of their crimes, let alone distribute them.

    IDGAF if he's got potential, so has every person his age. He did it, and he knew it was rape, of course he should have his life FUBAR, to discourage the others like him. Anything else is encouragement!

    Every judge should have to answer the question: what if the suspect were a poor, minority kid?

  • CUT OFF HIS DICK!!! Make that the law!! Any guy caught raping will have his dick cut off!! It'll at least make future rapists think twice about doing it and it'll keep guys who DID rape from ever doing it again!!

  • There's more detail to the story that isn't here. Whats the relationship between the girl and the alleged rapist, did she make a complaint or did someone else based on the video? He's obviously very stupid to film his actions and distribute, along with the way he describes it. 2 drunken teenagers, truth may not be so black and white
    16 yr olds being allowed to drink with no supervision, recipe for disaster

  • That judge should be in jail.

  • The boy must be white

  • Maybe the kid came from money$$$$.

    With a good attorney you can get away with anything.

  • It's not the judge.. it's the kid's rich-daddy/mommy words.

  • Itd be totally different if the rapist was of legal drinking age and she wasn't... the guilty party is the adult who contributed to the delinquency of this minor.

  • What did the "victim" say?

    • Specifically with regards to how intoxicated she was?

  • Holy shit, this is legit. I assumed it must be spurious news but FUCK FUCK FUCK.

  • Must be a conservative judge

    Conservatives think men should be allow to rape women due to a stupid book 😒😒

    • You kidding me? Liberal judges make all the wrong decisions not conservative ones. Liberals protect criminals so it must have been a liberal.

    • @Superplex Conservatives are religious nuts who think women are properly no matter if they are Christians or Muslims

  • Wow, how did he ever make Eagle Scout being that stupid? No, he needs to go to prison until he is old enough to not reproduce.

  • If he's guilty, he deserves no leniency; he's brought shame on his family.

  • That boy deserves to be punished. He wasn't drunk either he knew what he was doing.

  • I'd execute him.

    • It's high time.

  • Make him look at Playboys , and put is john dandy on a stump and let her take a mallet and go to down on him.

  • Find it hard to believe that a judge said that but if they did then it's pretty fucked up.

  • Judges need to be unbiased. It doesn't matter if he comes from a good family. He did the crime, it's him who does the time. It even said it all in the text. And how the Hell did this even happen? Like, wouldn't someone think it'd be suspicious that a drunk boy has a drunk girl with him and they're leaving the party alone? The judge needs to be fired and the boy needs to be arrested and put into jail.

  • fuck that leniency

    • This judge erred in law.

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