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heaven05

(18,124 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 08:50 PM Feb 2017

idaho rape case

if anyone has been following the case in Idaho where 3 whites were accused of anally penetrating a developmentally disabled black team mate with coat hangers and racially harassing him for months got 300 hours of community service with probation...it's in today's Guardian. The judge in the case district judge Randy Stoker said it wasn't a rape and that he felt there was no racism involved in the attack...us out here don't understand the case...

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idaho rape case (Original Post) heaven05 Feb 2017 OP
Can it be appealed? That is bullshit. Squinch Feb 2017 #1
I guess heaven05 Feb 2017 #2
If the team mate had been white and not disabled there would have been hell to pay. Doreen Feb 2017 #3
for sure heaven05 Feb 2017 #4
Not Racial? Not Rape? sheshe2 Feb 2017 #5
It is sad there will heaven05 Feb 2017 #7
No justice no peace sheshe2 Feb 2017 #9
I hadn't heard the case so I searched for the Judge's name. rogue emissary Feb 2017 #6
yep, he was that judge heaven05 Feb 2017 #8
This story needs a lot more attention. rogue emissary Feb 2017 #10
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
2. I guess
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 08:58 PM
Feb 2017

we'll just have to wait and see. That is trumpland and this is now trumps ameriKKKa. Less liberty and justice for all, more than ever before in the history of this racist land, is right in front of POC.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
3. If the team mate had been white and not disabled there would have been hell to pay.
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:14 PM
Feb 2017

With this judge if it had been a girl they would not have gotten any punishment. SICK.

sheshe2

(88,100 posts)
5. Not Racial? Not Rape?
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:18 PM
Feb 2017
leading up to the incident, which involved the insertion of a coat hanger in his rectum.

“This is not a rape case,” said an emphatic Stoker. “This is not a sex case. This started out as penetration with a foreign object ... Whatever happened in that locker room was not sexual.

“In my view, this is not a case about racial bias,”

“If I thought that you had committed this offense for racial purposes, you would go straight to the Idaho penitentiary.”

Howard taught him a song that glorified anal rape and the KKK, and members of the football team called him slurs including “nigger”, “chicken eater”, “watermelon” and “Kool-Aid”.

But on Friday, Stoker brushed aside those assertions. The victim “was not targeted, which dispels in my view any claim of a racial incident”, Stoker said. “Another individual who was involved said [the victim] was called ‘fried chicken’ because [he] said it was his favorite food ... I don’t think it’s a racial slur.”


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/idaho-football-player-rape-case-coat-hanger-light-sentence

Sounds like the GOP definition of rape. With a large heaping of racism thrown in. That chlid/man was disabled. That judge needs to be disbarred.

I am going to be sick.
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
7. It is sad there will
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:24 PM
Feb 2017

be no justice for the young AA. But what's to be expected, Idaho and now definitely trumpland. Won't be any demonstrations about this, there, that's for damn sure.

rogue emissary

(3,218 posts)
6. I hadn't heard the case so I searched for the Judge's name.
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:23 PM
Feb 2017

He's really easy on rapist as he gave another rapist a lite sentence. The below article was the second to come up when I searched for Randy Stoker. The first link was a petition to remove him from the bench.

Idaho judge says rape is 'a direct consequence of the social media system'

An Idaho judge who said a man who raped a 14-year-old girl could be released on probation if he agreed not to have sex outside of wedlock also linked the case to a breakdown of morality in the social media age, adding: “If I had my way, I would eliminate the internet.”

The unusual requirement that a convict remain celibate as a condition of probation received widespread attention this week, after segments of Judge Randy J Stoker’s ruling were made public. . . .


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/08/idaho-judge-rape-social-media-twin-falls
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
8. yep, he was that judge
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:26 PM
Feb 2017

sickening, yet....no justice is not surprising with this racist, sexist dinosaur.

rogue emissary

(3,218 posts)
10. This story needs a lot more attention.
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:33 PM
Feb 2017

What's surprising is he hasn't been impeached or removed from the bench. Unfortunately, To do either would have to go to the supreme court or Idaho's congress.

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