And Justice For All
By Mitch Berg
The “study” is laughably unscientific.
The “evidence” may well be cherry-picked to fit the writer’s premise.
But the premise makes intuitive sense.
All of these women were arrested for the same thing – sex with a minor, varying only slightly in age – so there’s virtually no difference in the objective eyes of the law. And yet some of them got absolutely no prison time, while others were jailed for over 20 years. Do you see any difference in the offenders?
Justice has never been “blind”; there’s a reason lawyers tell their clients to wear suits and get haircuts before trials. And I’d be interested in knowing:
- a more complete listing of offenders
- the demographics of the judges issuing the sentences
But it does appear as if the sentence for sleeping with a high school boy is being handed down by a college-age guy…
February 6th, 2015 at 8:07 am
It’s evident that you never should cross the Swogger Line.
February 6th, 2015 at 9:44 am
It could be even more interesting to compare these with the prison sentence male teachers get for having sex with underage girls.
February 6th, 2015 at 9:45 am
And did you really say, “cherry-picked”?
February 6th, 2015 at 10:39 am
I would be cautious about making too much of this, as schools have been learning this stuff the hard way since I was a kid. When I was about ten, we learned that a teacher had been molesting my next door neighbors. Unfortunately, back in the day when leisure suits and dinosaurs roamed the land, the police really didn’t know what to do with it.
So my neighbor more or less made it clear that while the police probably wouldn’t prosecute the teacher for his crimes, they also probably wouldn’t prosecute if the father beat the living **** out of the teacher or worse for what he’d done. So the teacher wasn’t seen around there again. Teacher and victims were both male.
More recently, a Chaska teacher evaded jail time because while the student was a minor, he wasn’t one of her students, and just yesterday, no less than Hahvid announced that it was forbidden for professors to knock up their students.
Apparently at Ivy League schools, you’ve got to tell people that.
February 6th, 2015 at 2:03 pm
Story today about Steve Kroft whose tweets to his 40 year old female lawyer girl friend were made public. Says he’s going around apologizing to his female colleagues at 60 Minutes.
Noting in the story about the female lawyer apologizing to her colleagues.
February 7th, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Blondes have more fun.