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Looking “A Bit Older,” Young Rape Victims Viewed as Culpable

Author: Roslyn K. Myers.; Karen Gershenhorn.

Source: Volume 15, Number 03, April/May 2014 , pp.39-40(2)

Abstract:

A judge suspends all but one month of a teacher's 15-year prison sentence based on, what he termed, the student's implied culpability. The sentence of a pedophile who originally walked free from court after his victim, 13, was branded ‘predatory’ is revised to two years.

Keywords: State of Montana v. Stacey Dean Rambold; consent; National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; minimum sentence

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