*promote It is a shame that the rapist only got 6 months.

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Add to that the father being upset his son is being punished for "20 minutes"... those 20 minutes ruined this girl's life. He should have been given several years at minimum, then have to worry about his being a sex offender for the rest of his life. I don't get why the concept of consent is so hard to grasp... if she's not able to consent, because she's too intoxicated (be it via alcohol or drugs, even if of her own free will) to consent, the answer is no, even if she'd have likely said yes when not. Of course no also means no... It's really not that complicated. She's never asking for it... learn to control yourself. Masturbate if you can't control yourself. It's not that hard.

Yes.
It's as if he doesn't understand that it takes less than one minute to ruin someone's life. Would he grant the victim 20 minutes with his unconscious son...wife....daughter to do as she pleased with impunity? She could rape torture and murder them all in 1/4 that time, but because it only took 20 minutes that would mean it's OK? The "20 minutes of action" defense was just insane, much more insane that it WORKED!

What I saw said there are minimum sentencing guidelines for the crimes he's been found guilty of that should have him in prison for 6+ years....how can the judge ignore those guidelines legally and give him 6 months in county jail, which means he'll actually serve 2 months or less and NEVER see prison. That seems like something he can't legally do, and something that hopefully will have him removed from the bench, because he clearly doesn't belong there.

@bareboards2, can you post the transcript in the description or as a comment please? I heard all I could of her eloquent and horribly depressing victim statement, but it was definitely worth reading for those who have not.

I have also linked this in the description, so people don't have to read the comments to find this link:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/6/1534962/-The-daunting-and-powerful-statement-a-Stanford-victim-reads-to-her-rapist-in-court-goes-viral

Here is part of the full statement that was excised for time -- part of where she responds to the defendant's statement, point by point:

You said, Being drunk I just couldn’t make the best decisions and neither could she.

Alcohol is not an excuse. Is it a factor? Yes. But alcohol was not the one who stripped me, fingered me, had my head dragging against the ground, with me almost fully naked. Having too much to drink was an amateur mistake that I admit to, but it is not criminal. Everyone in this room has had a night where they have regretted drinking too much, or knows someone close to them who has had a night where they have regretted drinking too much. Regretting drinking is not the same as regretting sexual assault. We were both drunk, the difference is I did not take off your pants and underwear, touch you inappropriately, and run away. That’s the difference.

You said, If I wanted to get to know her, I should have asked for her number, rather than asking her to go back to my room.

I’m not mad because you didn’t ask for my number. Even if you did know me, I would not want be in this situation. My own boyfriend knows me, but if he asked to finger me behind a dumpster, I would slap him. No girl wants to be in this situation. Nobody. I don’t care if you know their phone number or not.

You said, I stupidly thought it was okay for me to do what everyone around me was doing, which was drinking. I was wrong.

Again, you were not wrong for drinking. Everyone around you was not sexually assaulting me. You were wrong for doing what nobody else was doing, which was pushing your erect dick in your pants against my naked, defenseless body concealed in a dark area, where partygoers could no longer see or protect me, and own my sister could not find me. Sipping fireball is not your crime. Peeling off and discarding my underwear like a candy wrapper to insert your finger into my body, is where you went wrong. Why am I still explaining this.

Consent is Actually Easy to Understand http://videosift.com/video/Consent-is-actually-easy-to-understand-yeah

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Rape-In-The-Military-passMJIA-Samantha-Bee

May seem like separate subjects. Ms Bee makes clear they aren't.

Rape In The Military-#passMJIA-Samantha Bee has been added as a related post - related requested by bareboards2.

Yeah... It should be a crime to be that ignorant of consequence. Should we punish all crimes by the time it took them commit? If so, I'd argue that this crime was a lifetime of shit parenting in the making and the hole fucking lot should rot in a cell for the remainder.