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| Topic | Former cop avoids prison despite admitting he raped teen while working in school |
| Pogo_Marimo 09/05/17 2:54:48 PM #64: | eston posted... Admiral's first post in the topic was to dismiss this as a non-story, pretty disgusting no matter how you slice it I'm pretty sure he was criticising the sources framing of the story by avoiding the phrase "statutory rape" to ellicit a stronger response, in addition to emphasizing that he was a "former cop". It's clearly an emotionally manipulative attempt to stir anti-cop sentiment while obscuring the full nature of the crime; i.e. consensual sex but illegal by age statutes. The worst thing about statutory rape laws is they are inherently arbitrary and nebulous--They cannot he said to uphold a moral code because they are based on inconsistent axioms. Thus, when someone wants to pile on an agenda, they like to avoid the fact that the crime was statuatory to avoid and moral ambiguities and really stoke that strong emotional response. Thus, their article gets shared more on social media because "rape" and "police officer" and "young white girl" are the only things that stick in people's mind. So yeah. Sentencing seemed to follow guidelines. I'm not sure what the outrage here is. It's one of a half dozen cases that pop up every day for statutory rape but it's the only one that goes viral. Use your heads and try to figure out why--And it's not because of sentencing. Only around 50-60% of (Male) offenders serve any jail time. --- // BEAUTY IS NOT LOVE - LOVE IS NOT MUSIC - MUSIC IS THE BEST - WISDOM IS THE DOMAIN OF THE WIZ--WHICH IS EXTINCT // http://www.last.fm/user/Pogo92 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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