Court: Rapist Can Seek Reduced Sentence

mike · #1 02-18-2006, 05:15 PM

Isn't it great that we live in a world where wacko courts can ignore laws?

The first problem I have is that a man can get just over 3 years for "sexual violence and threats against the 14-year-old". Now, his lawyer is trying to reduce that sentence by two-thirds because she wasn't a virgin!

Quote:

ROME - Italy's highest court ruled Friday that a man who raped the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend can seek to have his sentenced reduced because the girl was sexually active, news reports said.

The ruling provoked an outcry across Italy, was condemned by UNICEF and prompted other justices on the court to issue a statement saying the ruling was wrong and in the future would be cited as a bad example of a high court decision, the ANSA news agency reported.

The case goes back to 2001, when a court in Sardinia convicted Marco T. of sexual violence and threats against the 14-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend and sentenced him to more than three years in prison, ANSA said.

He requested a reduced sentence, saying the crime was less serious because the girl had already had several sexual partners.

His request was rejected, but Italy's high court said the judges should re-evaluate the decision because the girl "since the age of 13 had had many sexual relations with men of every age."

"And it's right to assume," the ruling went on, according to ANSA, "that at the time of the encounter with the suspect her personality, from a sexual point of view, was much more developed than what one might normally expect from a girl of her age."

The suspect's lawyer, Andrea Biccheddu, defended the ruling, saying the episode between his client and the girl "didn't provoke any trauma," because the girl had had so many sexual partners.

He said his client deserved to have his sentence reduced by two thirds, the agency said.

Forget about interpreting the law, we judges can make our own rules. Since this girl wasn't a virgin we think he has a right to have his sentenced reduced!

chucksnee · #2 02-18-2006, 06:22 PM

I get sick and tired of hearing things like this. Like that rapiest who got 60 days for raping a little girl in the states

He has ruined her life forever.

But it is our society that has done it to ourselves. Not even going to gt on my soap box about lawyers and all....

Here is what every lawyer should be like.

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