Rape crisis center scolds Texas judge after she sentences rapist to work with victims there

[ashling]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/01/rape-crisis-center-scolds-texas-judge-after-she-sentences-rapist-to-work-with-victims-there/

A Texas judge who ordered a rapist to serve community service at a rape crisis center has been forced to reconsider the sentence.

In a police interview, Sir Young admitted that he had raped a 14-year-old girl in 2011 at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts when he was 18.

“I hate to have that on my plate. But that’s rape,” he told police.


According to The Dallas Observer, Young could have served 20 years in jail, but Dallas County District Judge Jeanine Howard showed him leniency during last week’s sentencing.

Howard ruled that Young would only have to spend 45 days in jail, but it was the “250 hours of community service at a rape crisis center” that shocked victim advocates.

[uppityperson]

1. 45 days is way not enough. I can see having him do some sort of thing related to

rape, but not work at a crisis center. Somehow make it part of the deal that he has to hear from survivors, but not in crisis. And 45 days? Shame on the judge.

[hobbit709]

2. Evidently she has a history of letting people walk off with probation

and then same person commits more serious crimes.