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    EldritchRachel Vorona Cote
    6/26/16 10:06pm

    Enochs denied the rape charges but, in a plea deal, admitted guilt to battery with moderate bodily injury — a misdemeanor, rather than a felony. In return, both rape charges were dismissed.

    Fucking excuse me?

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      eandh99Eldritch
      6/26/16 10:09pm

      but there’s no such thing as rape culture, right?

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      AmyEldritch
      6/26/16 10:11pm

      He didn’t rape her, he beat her? Is that what this means?

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    rockoutwithyourbockoutRachel Vorona Cote
    6/26/16 10:11pm

    IU Grad here. My friends have been going APESHIT about this on facebook. Several still live in the area and pay taxes. It’s really screwed up. Sadly, I work for corrections in another state and can verify it’s not unusual - even here. So not acceptable though. NOT AT ALL.

    It’s SO SO sick. What is worse is the townie who defended the sentence saying “he’s probably got his whole life ruined so who cares?” on my friend’s thread. ARE YOU SERIOUS? ! As a survivor, I keep wanting to scream WHAT ABOUT THE VICTIM?!

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      windchillrockoutwithyourbockout
      6/26/16 11:00pm

      Oh, well, shit, if it’s going to ruin his life, then why not have him convicted of rape anyway?

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      Groverrockoutwithyourbockout
      6/26/16 11:46pm

      Go ahead and scream!

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    AriX1Rachel Vorona Cote
    6/26/16 10:15pm

    Of course!
    *cue posts of some black dude being sent to prison for 15 years for half the crimes*

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      TakahashiAriX1
      6/26/16 10:23pm

      Agreed.

      All the minorities in prison who are locked up for nonviolent crimes ... In comparison to this bullshit?

      Oh well. A white man with a criminal record is more likely to land a job than a black man without a criminal record. So there’s that...

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      DarigaazAriX1
      6/26/16 11:00pm

      Rape a woman? 3 months jail. Hack into a media conglomorate to change their front page? 25 years prison.

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    Ol' Gil GundersonRachel Vorona Cote
    6/26/16 10:07pm

    I don’t know what the fuck the Monroe County prosecutor was thinking offering that deal.

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      TakahashiOl' Gil Gunderson
      6/26/16 10:26pm

      I’m not defending the prosecutor, I swear, but I’m guessing that rape would have been difficult to prove. So it was either plea him to some other crime or risk him walking free.

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      Ol' Gil GundersonTakahashi
      6/26/16 10:30pm

      Yeah, that would make sense, but it doesn’t seem to be the case here. There’s video of him going into a room with one victim, who had lacerations on her genitals. There are, I believe, text messages between him and the other victim where he acknowledges she was passed out.

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    CaliforlifeRachel Vorona Cote
    6/27/16 12:56pm

    Good morning, world, I’m the latest white male rapist to move on with my life because the system my forefathers set up benefits me cradle to grave regardless of my ability, my criminal actions, my grades, my social status, my arrest record, my work output, my resume, my friends, my community, my church, my family, my ability to rape any women, my political views, my awesome ability to rape, my looks, my clothes, my anything. I am above every single person, woman, race, and ethnic group in this country because I was born a white male.

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      PrincessCharlotte'sNannyCaliforlife
      6/27/16 2:50pm

      it has absolutely nothing to do with the criminal justice system set up by our forefathers. we have an imperfect system, yes, but we have the best system in the world. to deprive a citizen of his liberty, you have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime occurred and that he committed that crime. are you saying we should have a lower standard? please be specific. because if your answer is yes, then you obviously do not care if more people of color are locked up, because that will undeniably be a result of a lower threshold. please explain your alternative.

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      CaliforlifePrincessCharlotte'sNanny
      6/27/16 2:59pm

      You deny this country’s laws, etc., we/are designed by/for white men? And, do you really believe we “have the best system in the world”? I’ve got literally hundreds of thousands of black and brown men in jail for 5, 10, 20 years for a drug offense; innocent folk let free after 10, 20,30 years for crimes they did not commit, cops walking around free after murdering black men, corrupt lawyers and judges, rich white people who break laws and serve no time, wall street criminals allowed to destroy trillions and not serve a minute of time while black men and women die from “rough” rides and/or neglect while in jail... come back to me when your “best system in the world” really is...

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    Fisk the FishRachel Vorona Cote
    6/26/16 10:09pm

    This will help embolden future rapists. The courts in America have made it quite clear that rape is generally acceptable and the lives of women do not matter.

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      F1guy hates duck billed F1 carsFisk the Fish
      6/26/16 11:54pm

      You forgot to mention that white criminals matter in ALL cases.

      Had this been black on white, life improsonment.

      Black on black? Not even worth a mention in the daily crime logs.

      The bottom line is that his race is the only reason he got off. Being white is literally a “get out of jail free card” pure and simple. To deny this fact is to be wrong.

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      Helena HandbasketF1guy hates duck billed F1 cars
      6/27/16 12:48am

      “Being white is literally a “get out of jail free card” pure and simple. To deny this fact is to be wrong”

      Literally? Not even a SMIDGE figuratively, but coldly, factually literal?

      I understand the anger, but we gotta live in reality, too.

      33% of inmates are white. 39% are black.

      Broken, racist system, but “get out of jail free card” is ridiculous when that many white people are behind bars, too.

      Rape is hard for the Machine to get right largely because there’s rarely any evidence of non-consent. “Consenting” is a thought in a person’s head, there’s no missing money or wounds or broken window pane to concretely show a jury that a crime occured.

      Something we all do, all seek, do all the time, but is a crime if the victim has a different thought in their head than they did five minutes ago? I don’t think there is another common crime that’s similar, and it just makes rape very hard to prove to 12 people, beyond all possible doubt, at trial, and so it makes it hard to convict people of.

      (In addition to there still being horrifying levels of sexism in Western culture, of course, although we’ve come STUNNINGLY farther than the rest of the world, so we’ve got that going for us...)

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    Violet26Rachel Vorona Cote
    6/26/16 10:06pm

    Really sick of these light sentences, shows how much women are valued in this country!

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      EmotionallyCrippledMini-HulkRachel Vorona Cote
      6/27/16 2:58am

      My sister was raped when she was 13 by her boyfriend, who was also 13. It was at his home and his parents were home. She pleaded with him to stop but didn’t yell because she was worried about getting in trouble with his parents. We only found out because she told a friend on the phone and her friend’s mother happened to hear the conversation. At the hospital, a doctor said it was the worst damage, physically, she’d ever seen in a rape victim. The local prosecutor said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge her rapist and that her not yelling for help made him think she just regretted a sexual encounter.

      I’m not surprised by this stuff anymore. I understand these crimes are hard to prosecute but fucking christ, 99% of the time these assholes get off completely or with weak punishments. I can only imagine it has to do with women being the primary victims. Fuck this shit.

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        chocolatechipcookiesforbreakfastEmotionallyCrippledMini-Hulk
        6/27/16 8:01am

        That prosecutor does not make any sense, so, according to him, women and girls who regret sexual encounters go to the police and claim rape?!?! What the actual fuck.

        I hope your sister is ok now, she was so young.

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      TwoNinjasTaped2GetherRachel Vorona Cote
      6/26/16 10:42pm

      Whoa a whole YEAR without raping a woman?

      What is this? Syria?

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        chocolatechipcookiesforbreakfastTwoNinjasTaped2Gether
        6/27/16 2:44am

        He still can rape as long as no one accuse him and after this outcome, who is going to do something?

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        Flying Squidchocolatechipcookiesforbreakfast
        6/27/16 6:59am

        He can just get married and move to South Carolina. It’s only marital rape if you use a “high level” of violence there.

        Seriously.

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      CaptOtterRachel Vorona Cote
      6/27/16 10:05am

      There’s something very unsettling about pleaing down two rape charges to misdemeanor battery—but there has to be some practical reason for them to have done this. Yes, I know, !rape culture, but the state’s/district attorney must have some ostensibly legitimate justification for this move, and I’d be interested to know what it is—if only to perfect our understanding of just how big a load of bullshit this is.

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